Carlson Civil 2009 Software

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Civil Design to Put You in the Passing Lane—What might take days with other civil software, takes just hours, or even minutes, with the powerful, intuitive Carlson Civil 2011.

This is thanks to the Carlson Civil 2011 wide selection of “power” tools – dozens of brand new commands, along with hundreds of user-driven improvements. Carlson Civil 2011 comes with 64-bit capabilities, is Windows 7 compatible, and works on AutoCAD® or Map® versions 2000, up to and including 2011, and comes with built-in IntelliCAD®6.6— a robust, .dwg-compatible CAD platform that every CAD developer can build upon.

Top new capabilities of Carlson Civil 2011 include Road Rehabilitation commands that were developed specifically to save time and money for those working on the many resurfacing projects currently under way around the country. The commands create designs for specified overlay with milling or leveling.

Other Carlson Civil 2011 enhancements include:

	command for Vehicle Path Tracking, which allows designers to trace wheel paths for vehicle dimensions along centerline;
	the ability to Edit Contours and instantly update the underlying 3D model (updates the underlying TIN surface to match the modified contours), a feature that is unique to Carlson;
	addition of graphic previews of settings within dialog of Draw Profile that includes retention of custom edits of labels;
	added setting for curve definitions, which includes either roadway or railroad curves; and
	a new Draw Plan View Sheets command to create layouts of plan views.

If your civil/survey software is going away, please investigate the affordable, technically advanced options available from Carlson Software -- you'll be glad you did.

Carlson Civil 2011 is a superior choice for civil technicians, designers and engineers. It provides the highest level of robust automation and ease-of-use of any civil design solution available today and has the deepest, most consistent code base in the civil engineering industry. Using Carlson Civil will increase your productivity and enable you to create better designs in less time. Carlson Civil 2011 is available now. To find a Carlson dealer near you, click here. Read some in-depth Civil testimonials from longtime Carlson Software users.

Key Features

General

	CAD Platforms : Runs in AutoCAD versions 2009 to 2000 as well as AutoCAD Map, Land Desktop and Civil3D, with added support for running on IntelliCAD 6.4
	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

3D Data

	Elevate 2D to 3D: For spot elevation, polylines, contours and pads
	Edit-Assign Polyline Elevations: Elevates 3D polylines using control points
	Create Ridge Polylines From Contours: Creates 3D polylines for ridges, valleys and summits to enhance surface from contours
	3D Polyline Tools: Draw, offset, fillet and merge 3D polylines

Surfaces

	Build Surfaces: By triangulation or rectangular grids
	Contouring: One step triangulate and contour from 3D entities as well as contouring from surface files
	Triangulation Utilities: TIN math (add, subtract, multiply, divide) by value or another TIN within perimeters, and offset, simplify and merge functions
	Surface Manager: Change surface display properties and adjust surface functions to add and remove points and breaklines and swap edges
	Surface Inspector: Real-time elevation feedback while moving over surfaces
	3D Surface Flyover: 3D viewer with vehicle to drive over surface or follow 3D path
	Slope Analysis: Label and report surface slopes at selected points and slope zone analysis

Grading

	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
	Cut/Fill Color Maps and Labels: Draw shaded map of red/blue and flexible labels for cut/fill and surface elevations
	Cut/Fill Centroid Analysis: Outlines perimeter and finds center of mass for each cut/fill area with option to report optimized earthwork movement
	Earthwork and Material Quantities: Volumes adjusted by subgrade zones and material quantities for count, length, area and volume by entity layer
	Story Stakes: Create different styles of story stake reports

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
	Design Road Profile: Create road profile on profile grid or spreadsheet with simultaneous profile, plan and section views
	Design Sewer/Pipe Profile: Create profiles with invert elevations, pipe sizes, rim elevations and manhole sizes
	Profiles To 3D: Create points and 3D polylines from profiles
	Profile Reports: Several report functions such as Sag/Crest for roads and Pipe Depth Summary for trenches

Sections

	Create Sections: From surfaces, screen entities, points, etc
	Quick Sections: One step creation of sections
	Draw Sections: Draw sections in vertical stack or on standard, logo-based sheets with flexible formatting and auto-updating based on edits
	Input-Edit Sections: Enter section data in dual spreadsheet and graphic window with drive-thru function
	Sections to 3D: Create points and 3D polylines from sections, with optional influence of profile, an essential process for creating DTMs for machine control on most highway projects, where sections “govern”
	Mass Haul Diagrams and Analysis: Calculate and draw mass haul diagrams and routine to report optimized earth movement by distance ranges
	Section Volumes: Calculates volumes between two section surfaces by end areas method

Road Design

	Template Design and Drawing: Detailed yet simple template design with unlimited subgrades, rule-based cut, fill and superelevation methods and routine to easily draw typical template
	Template Transitions: Define transitions for templates, superelevation, topsoil with control over each template grade line using 2 methods: lane width change by station range or “string” method where template IDs follow defined alignments
	Process Road Design: Applies road design, reports quantities and outputs sections, surfaces and template points
	Road Network: Dynamic road design with intersections and cul-de-sacs
	Road Design Inspector: Real-time viewing of road design in plan, profile and section views

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

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

Companion Programs

	Carlson SurvCE: Data collection for Windows CE and Pocket PC
	Carlson Field: Take Carlson and AutoCAD to the field for data collection and stakeout with total stations and GPS
	Carlson Takeoff: Construction Estimating for earthworks, subgrades, material quantities, strata quantities and trench networks
	Carlson Point Clouds: Process laser scan data to generate models, breaklines and points
	Carlson Natural Regrade: Design stable land surfaces that follow natural hydrologic and geomorphology principles
	Carlson Geology: Models drillholes and strata structures and attributes

Product History

Carlson Civil 2009 is the newest product offering from Carlson Software addressing the site, subdivision and road design needs of the civil engineer. Carlson Civil 2009 is the natural outgrowth of a well-established product line dating back to 1983. It is the third “makeover” of core products from Carlson. The first product that established the company was Surveyor 1, a DOS-based survey solution that included plotting and digitizing, as well as a full set of COGO functions. With the advent of AutoCAD 10 in the early 1990s, Carlson Software ported all of its features to work in Windows inside AutoCAD, and supplemented the survey routines with contouring, volumes, subdivision design, sections, profiles and a complete set of roading features. This second incarnation was known as SurvCADD. SurvCADD became a favorite solution for surveying companies, was utilized by many civil departments, and, with the addition of mining features, came to dominate many sectors of the mine design and planning industry.

With the continued addition of civil engineering and construction-oriented features, SurvCADD began to outlive both its name and its survey-based structure. Since 2000, Carlson Software has emphasized development of a new set of advanced civil engineering features for 3D road network design, DTM-based sewer network design and site development. This culminated in the May 26, 2006, release of Carlson Civil 2007, which is now further enhanced with the April 2009 release of Carlson Civil 2009.

Carlson Civil 2009 is designed to provide the Carlson traditional ease-of-use combined with unsurpassed functionality, all based on 25 years of experience in the software industry serving this market. Listening to and incorporating customer input into our software design over these years has made Carlson Civil 2009 the most user-friendly and solution-oriented civil engineering software in the marketplace today. We attribute this to our comprehensive experience in the overlapping markets of survey, construction and mining, and the Carlson dedication to providing technologically superior software products.