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Carlson Survey 2007 Standalone and Carlson Survey 2007 For AutoCAD

Carlson Survey 2007 is Carlson's most productive and intuitive AutoCAD-based survey solution yet.

Even better, Carlson Survey is now available in two forms: Inside AutoCAD® or AutoCAD® Inside. And the standalone Carlson Survey now matches all major features of the inside AutoCAD® version. Both include SurvNET Network Least Squares, now essential for survey adjustment.

Carlson Survey 2007 Standalone
With The AutoCAD 2007 Engine Built-In
$1995
Carlson Survey 2007 for AutoCAD
$1500
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Carlson Survey 2007 Standalone

With The AutoCAD 2007 Engine Built-In
$695
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Upgrade from Carlson Survey 2004 to:
Carlson Survey 2007 Standalone
With The AutoCAD 2007 Engine Built-In
$895
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Surveyors will use the point-based CAD/COGO commands extensively, since it has more of them than any other product available today. Add the one-step contouring, volume calculation and construction stakeout features built into this innovative product, and surveyors can do all their mapping and construction stakeout -- from start to finish -- without having to resort to using any other software. For a quick movie sample, click Edit-Process Raw Data File, or the image below.

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Also included are hundreds of enhancements to basic AutoCAD® commands. Note that Carlson Survey 2007 for AutoCAD® can be purchased individually or, for even greater savings, as part of the Carlson Civil Suite 2007, Carlson Survey 2007 for AutoCAD runs atop AutoCAD versions 2000-2007.

 

 
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

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

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

     
 
Screenshots
 
 
Raw Data Editor with Graphics
Lot Editor
Lot Report
Sample Resulting Plan/Plat
Point Groups Manager Dialog
Edit Deed Dialog
Deed Reader Dialog
SurvNET Graphics View
3D Objects Creates With Special Field to Finish Coding
3D Drive Simulation of Subdivision
 
System Requirements (Standalone)
 


The recommended system requirements for Carlson Survey 2007 Standalone 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 Survey 2007, but the results may be less than ideal. Sufficient swap space is also required to handle the installation of Carlson Survey 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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