Carlson Survey

General

• Built on AutoCAD and IntelliCAD

  Carlson Survey will run in AutoCAD^® as well as AutoCAD^® Map, Land Desktop and Civil3D and also on IntelliCAD.

• Project Setup

  Flexible data storage methods

• 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

Centerlines

• Design and Edit Centerlines

  Design or input alignments on screen or in dialog with graphics

• Label Stations and Offsets

  Annotate station and offsets along centerline and at selected points

• Calculate Offsets

  Reports stations and offsets for selected points along centerline

• Create Offset Points

  Create points at specified stations and offsets

• Spirals

  Flexible handling of the most complex spiral curves including “spiral-only” elements going arc-spiral-arc, arc-spiral-line and line-spiral-line

Profiles

• Create Profiles

  From surfaces, screen entities, points on centerline, etc.

• Quick Profile

  One step profile creation with real-time update while adjusting centerline

• Input-Edit Profiles

  Enter profile data in dual spreadsheet and graphic window, and design in reference to controlling profile grade points

• Draw Profiles

  Draws profiles on grids or plan-profile sheets with auto-updating based on edits

• Profiles To 3D

  Create points and 3D polylines from profiles

Points

• Import/Export

  User-defined import and export of point data along with conversions with specific other formats

• Draw Points

  Draw points with settings for symbols, layers and styles

• Point Groups

  Point group manager to define sets of point by filters

• Coordinate File History

  Tracks all changes to points with report and undo functions

• Fix Point Label Overlaps

  Finds point label overlaps with rule options to fix automatically

• Point Tools

  Utilities for modify point labels such as move with leader, twist and resize

Survey

• Data Collection Interfaces

  Upload and download to
  popular data collectors

• Traverse Adjustment

  Spreadsheet editor for raw data with graphics and processing for traverse adjustments

• SurvNET

  Advanced network least-squares for total station, GPS and level data

• Field-to-Finish

  Draw points with styles and in point groups set by point descriptions and draw linework by several flexible methods

• Field-to-Finish Inspector

  Inspect all field-to-finish elements, see description source and re-draw based on descriptions edits

• COGO

  Streamlined inverse, traverse, sideshot, intersections, interpolation, translate, rotate, scale and align

• Coordinate Transformations

  Transform coordinates and screen entities between lat/lon and grid projections as well as local to local by Helmert and least-squares methods

• Deeds

  Enter deed by description, read deed data from deed file, deed reports, deed correlation and generate legal description from drawing

• Cut Sheets

  Create custom cut sheet reports with reference grades and station-offsets

Area/Layout

• Label Areas

  Customized area label styles and several methods to select areas to label

• Size Areas

  Sliding side area, hinged area, area radial from curve and bearing area cutoff

• Lot Manager

  Lot definitions by point numbers with functions to create lots, conduct mapcheck for closure, edit in spreadsheet with graphics, report lots and draw lots

• Lot Layout

  Size lots along alignment with controls for target area, setback and frontage

• Offsets, Intersection and Cul-de-Sacs

  Layout for ROW and EOP linework

Annotation

• Angle & Distance Labels

  Flexible routines to label linework in all possible layout combinations plus available rules to automatically fix label overlaps and revise labels when entities move

• Curve Labels

  Label curve data in stack, along arc or in table

• Survey Text

  Routines to create typical plat labels such as offset and building dimensions

• Label Elevations

  Label spot elevations along an alignment

• Linetypes

  Draw special linetypes