Construction

Carlson Construction is an integrated cut/fill takeoff and 3D surface modeling software solution designed for site and road construction. It offers powerful inspection and 3D viewing tools for elevating 2D designs to 3D model files.  Carlson Construction includes powerful tools for designing and modeling different aspects of road design, from new construction to road widening and repaving.

Key Abilities:

• Cut/Fill Estimating
• Output 3D Machine Control Files (Carlson Grade, Trimble, CAT-Accugrade, Leica, and Topcon)
• Output Construction Staking files for Site, Roadway, and Building Columns and Offsets

GeoTech

Carlson GeoTech provides the ability to import borehole data for analyzing subsurface conditions and materials.

“GeoTech will model all core samples and produce a detailed, easy-to-read report  for drill logs, cross sections, and plan view,” says Dave Carlson, V.P. of Development for Carlson Software.

In addition, this information is fully integrated with Carlson Civil, for determining site stability and suitability, and also Carlson Construction, for accurate strata takeoff estimation.

Carlson GeoTech supports AutoCAD^® and comes with IntelliCAD^® built-in. This is in addition to working on legacy AutoCAD versions.

Key Capabilities

– Input and edit drillhole log data with strata elevation, depth and attribute data
– Generate drillhole log reports
– Label drillholes
– Draw Geologic Columns
– Draw Fence Diagrams
– Draw Isopach Maps for strata thickness, elevation or attributes
– Draw Strata Surfaces
– Draw Strata Depth Contours and Cut Color Maps
– Model Strata Surfaces with linkage to Carlson Civil and Construction for strata quantities
– Annotate plan view drillhole location maps

General

• Built on AutoCAD and IntelliCAD

  Carlson GeoTech will run in AutoCAD^®, versions 2004 to 2014, as well as AutoCAD^® Map, Land Desktop and Civil3D and also on IntelliCAD.

• Allows users to do the following:

  –Input and edit drillhole log data with strata elevaion, depth and attribute data–Input and edit drillhole log data with strata elevaion, depth and attribute data

• Drawing Cleanup

  Fix common drafting errors

• Drafting Enchancements

  Handy tools for working in AutoCAD^® such as Join Nearest, Shrinkwrap Entities, Polyline Utilities, Drawing Inspector, Layer Inspector and Twist Screen

• Data Compatibility

  Supports industry standard LandXML and scores of specific data conversions

Surfaces

• Build Surfaces

  By triangulation or rectangular grids

• Contouring

  One step triangulate and contour from 3D entities as well as contouring from surface files

• Surface Manager

  Change surface display properties and adjust surface functions to add and remove points and breaklines and swap edges

• Volumes

  Earthwork volumes between triangulation or grid surfaces

• Pad Design

  Tie cut/fill slopes from pad perimeter to surface, build pad surface, calculate and balance volumes, and edit pad parameters