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$1500.00	Carlson Civil 2007
$1500.00	Carlson Civil 2007 is the flagship engineering office product from Carlson Software, containing robust functionality for road design, site and subdivision design and a full compliment of tools for working with points, surfaces and annotation. Built from the Carlson SurvCADD product line, first introduced in 1989, Carlson Civil 2007 delivers a new level of powerful automation, combined with unmatched ease-of-use through dozens of brand new commands, along with hundreds of user-driven improvements.

Key Features

General

Built on AutoCAD: Runs in AutoCAD versions 2007 to 2000 as well as AutoCAD Map, Land Desktop and Civil3D
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: Evolution to Carlson Civil

Carlson Civil 2007 is a new product offering from Carlson Software addressing the site, subdivision and road design needs of the civil engineer. Carlson Civil 2007 is new, but it is the 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 has culminated in the May 26, 2006 release of Carlson Civil 2007.

Carlson Civil 2007 is designed for civil engineers by civil engineers, based on 23 years of experience in the software industry serving this market. Carlson Civil 2007 takes the lessons of these years in civil feature development, adds in the comprehensive experience in the overlapping markets of survey, construction and mining, and distills the highest level of robust automation and ease-of-use of any civil design solution available today.