CG Survey is now included in Carlson Survey -- we are currently working on updating information on this web page. For more details, contact your regional sales representative.

If you own AutoCAD Release 2000 or later, this is the land surveying and mapping desktop software for you.

The application combines the two most respected software applications available to the land surveyor; CG Survey 18 and AutoCAD, the industry's most widely accepted graphics engine.

Developed by land surveyors for land surveyors, CG Software Solutions are known for their precise management of the field data and coordinate files, the heart of any surveyor’s project.   

The top features of the newest version of CG-Survey 18 include: it is VISTA and AutoCAD 2008 compatible and gives users the ability to create 3D face from tin, create a legal description from an AutoCAD polyline, edit coordinates in spread sheet format, and create a Carlson grid file, plus has shrinkwrap, deed reader, point manager, new lot labeling routines, enhanced CG symbol editor, addition of Carlson’s symbol library, new polyline tools and much more.

Read below to learn the significant feature improvements in CG Survey 18 for AutoCAD, versions 2000/ 2002/ 2004/ 2005/ 2006 / 2007/ 2008, from CG Survey 17 for AutoCAD.

Click here for complete list of CG-Survey '08 routines.

What's New

• CG-Survey 18 for AutoCAD is now VISTA compatible and runs atop any AutoCAD, including regular AutoCAD, AutoCAD Map, Land Desktop and soon on Civil 3D, versions 2000-2008. All the surveying tools and applications described on this Web page running inside AutoCAD with all of the standard AutoCAD pull down menus, no new menus to learn. More than 15 years experience producing software that runs on AutoCAD has produced CG Survey 18 for AutoCAD, the ultimate Land Surveying tool to run on your AutoCAD platform. 
• New Intersect toolbar: user can perform all the various types of intersections from an on screen toolbar. The resulting intersection location appears as a red “X” on the screen and the user can decide to save the result to the coordinate file or simple review the results.
• New Point Symbol Dialog Box: shows images of ALL symbol drawings found in the Symbols directory. The images are extracted from the drawings found in the Symbols directory and no longer use pre-prepared slides. This makes it easy for the user to customized C&G point symbols or add new symbols. Just use AutoCAD to edit a symbol or create a new one and save it to the Symbols directory.
• New Deed Reader: enter the ASCII or TXT data for the deed, by hand, or by cut and paste or read deed data from deed file.  From the data watch the program draw the deed file for you.
• New Legal Description: gives you the ability to create a detailed legal description from an AutoCAD polyline. 
• New Point Manager: manage all aspects of the coordinate file, change file name, delete file, copy file, edit file, change description length, change the file format, edit file location, add delete and renumber points, and more.
• New Edit Coordinate File: now you can edit the coordinate file in the CGEditor.
• New Associate Coordinate File: the user can associate a different coordinate file with the C&G entities in the drawing.
• New Renumber Points: allows the user to renumber a point range and overwrite existing points if desired.
• New Label Lot/Areas: pick in side an area defined by points in a point group, intersecting lines or polylines.  Then place lot numbers, areas or both in the center of the area or at the cursor location.
• New 3D faces from Tin: create a 3D face from the C&G tin file.
• New create & Plot a Grid File: create a Carlson grid file (*grd) from #D entities selected from drawing
• New Shrinkwrap: introducing a Carlson feature, which creates a closed polyline, that encloses a given set of entities to be used in various other routines for inclusion or exclusion of entities.
• New Draw Mapcheck: allows the user to draw lines, points, and bearings specified in a C&G (*.CGM) Mapcheck file.
• New Carlson Point Symbols: we have add the 175 Carlson symbols to the C&G library.

Enhancements to Existing Routines

• Fit Structure: a new setup feature that allows you to define layer defaults and new description options.
• CGOptions Setting: new tabs for Drawing Settings, Topographic Settings  and Call Settings.
• Place Calls: a new option Reverse Direction, that allows you to simple pick a call bearing and reverse the call direction.
• Drawing Inspector: will display azimuth calls now as well bearing
• Auto Create Points: added create on LDT proxy entities,
• Description Tables: now able to convert a Feature Code List for SurvCE (*.FCL) file to be used for “Field to Finish routine.
• SurvNET: added over 20 new features and improvements to the program like help files, menu options for editing various reports, add UTM and New Brunswick projection maps, added additional data validations in the processing, plus improved the processing time by over 30% and much more….
• Zoom to a Point: now has a rubber band line to show where the point was to is located.
• Coordinate Transformations: changed the user interface to be more user friendly.
• Bearing Area and Hinge/Radial Cutoff: allows user to pick an  AutoCAD or C&G polylines to specify property corners.

Click here for complete list of CG-Survey Routines