Carlson Survey is designed to complement land surveying operations and provides a variety of survey features to process data from surface modeling to Least Squares Network Adjustment. Users work seamlessly between the office and the field by utilizing company-wide design styles for ease of use and efficiency.

Choose your platform – Carlson Survey works on:
■ IntelliCAD® (built-in)
■ AutoCAD® OEM (built-in)
■ AutoCAD® (sold separately)

View the system/hardware requirements for Carlson Survey and our other CAD-based software here.

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

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

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

• Line types

  Draw special line types

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

Center-lines & Profiles

• Design and Edit Center-lines

  Design or input alignments on screen or in dialog with graphics

• Label Stations and Offsets

  Annotate station and offsets along center-line and at selected points

• Calculate Offsets

  Reports stations and offsets for selected points along center-line

• 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

• Create Profiles

  From surfaces, screen entities, points on center-line, etc.

• Quick Profile

  One step profile creation with real-time update while adjusting center-line

• 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