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Survey Instruments > Carlson > Carlson Roads 2007

 
Carlson Roads 2007 is the result of combining the powerful road, sewer, and pipe design features of SurvCADD with the Autodesk OEM graphics engine.

Carlson Roads 2007 reads and writes standard AutoCAD drawings and it is one of a few software packages to include read-write ability in Land XML file formats for Internet transfer of design data.

More importantly, this Carlson "standalone" product is built around the standard AutoCAD command set, assuring familiarity to AutoCAD-trained staff. Carlson Roads is the perfect companion to Carlson Survey 2007 Standalone , or it can be another whole workstation for in-the-field design of templates, profiles and cross-sections.

Product Price
Carlson Roads 2007 Standalone $1,995.00  
Carlson Roads 2007 Standalone Upgrade from Roads 2006
$895.00   
Carlson Roads 2007 Standalone Upgrade from Roads 2004 $1,195.00  
 
Carlson Roads 2007 also includes Road Network (RoadNet) – the new, powerful command to process multiple road designs with intersections and cul-de-sacs (also found in Carlson Civil 2007).
 
Standard Features
 

 
Design or enter as-built data for road, sewer or pipe profiles on existing profiles or grid at any horizon or vertical scale.  No elaborate setup!  Design roads using sight distance or K values for review and compliance.
Screen based template design - All template design features (grades, curbs, medians, subgrades, cut or fill treatment ...) displayed as icons.  Input data of existing templates are displayed and reviewed graphically on screen.
Simple or complex template design -  Create simple two lane or complex four lane divided highways with inside and outside curbs, super-elevation, variable width, subbase, multiple templates, right-of-way treatment, etc.
Stored templates can be plotted as template details for a normal full template or only left, right, cut, fill, super, curb or median treatment.
Powerful road design - Carlson Roads is the only PC road design software that can, with one command, draw an entire road in 3D showing everything from median, surface pavement, curbs, shoulders, ditches, with automatic cut or fill outslopes drawn as smooth slope transitions or slopes in series.  Draw finished grade contours that tie into the existing contours and break the existing contours within the disturbed area of the road and put them into a new layer.  Calculate the cut and fill earthwork, median, curb, and all subbase volumes.  Output template break points for all cross-section stations to a coordinate file for stakeout and store the point descriptions of the station, offset left or right distance, and their template description (E,P,CURB1,SH ...) Output all finished grade data, including subbase treatment, to a cross section file for cross section plotting.
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System Requirements
 

 

The recommended system requirements for Carlson Roads 2007 are the same as those of AutoCAD 2007.

System requirements for AutoCAD 2007 for users who are focusing on 2D drawing creation are as follows:

  • Intel® Pentium® IV processor recommended
  • Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition (SP1 or SP2), Windows XP Tablet PC Edition (SP2), or Windows 2000 (SP3 or SP4)
  • 512 MB RAM
  • 750 MB free disk space for installation
  • 1024x768 VGA display with true color
  • Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0 (SP1 or higher)

System requirements for AutoCAD 2007 for users who are taking advantage of the new conceptual design capabilities are as follows:

  • Intel® processor 3.0 GHz or greater
  • Windows XP Professional (SP2)
  • 2 GB RAM or greater
  • 2 GB of disk space available, not including installation
  • 1280x1024 32-bit color video display adapter (true color)
  • 128 MB or greater, OpenGL®-capable workstation class graphics card. 

Less capable machines (such as Pentium 233) can run Carlson Roads 2007, but the results may be less than ideal. Sufficient swap space is also required to handle the installation of Carlson Roads 2007 as well as any data or drawing files saved. The use of additional memory or faster processors will directly improve performance and capacity.

No Longer Officially Supported: Microsoft Windows 3.x or earlier, 95 and 98.
 

 
 
 
 
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