January 27, 2009:
Natural Regrade Wins Intermat Silver Innovation Award
Carlson Software's Natural Regrade land reclamation software won a Silver Award in the Services Category of Intermat's Innovation Awards. The official awards ceremony will be held during the 2009 Intermat, April 20-25, in Paris, France. For Detailed Information.
January 7, 2009:
Carlson Hosts 2nd Annual User Conference, April 5-7
Held again in Lexington, Ky., the 2009 Carlson User Conference will feature all new classes to show how Carlson's comprehensive software solutions bring users from "Concept to Completion." In addition, hands-on labs will be held and many of the classes will be split into beginner and advanced. For Detailed Information.
December 3, 2008:
Carlson Business Suite Facilitates Informed Business Decisions
Built and customized for engineering and surveying businesses, the Carlson Business Suite is a complete business management software solution. For Detailed Information.
November 11, 2008:
Carlson Grade Supervisor v1.0: New Tool for Construction Grade Management
 Both simple to learn and to use, Carlson Grade Supervisor v1.0 is designed specifically for site supervisors, inspectors and grade checkers. It offers affordable and easy-to-use software for day-to-day surface and grade management tasks. For Detailed Information.
 
 

Field Scan to Finished Plat, with Carlson PointCloud!

This modular program provides this powerful ability, all with seamless integration to Carlson Survey, Carlson Civil and Carlson Mining. Carlson PointCloud delivers a whole new level of powerful automation for large data sets. It gives laser scanner users the ability to process millions of data points with Carlson Software ease-of-use.

Register your scan to local coordinates, filter or decimate the points, overlay photo images in 3D, snap to edges and code the descriptions for automated field-to finish processing of linework and symbols and create contours, profiles, sections, and breaklines. You will be able to read scan data from many instruments, view and process 10 million or more points, and then perform the Field-to-Finish from the scanned data! This Carlson Software office products allows users to export surface models, points, contours, breaklines and profiles to CAD.


 
  • Built on AutoCAD: Runs in AutoCAD from version 2000 to current version as well as AutoCAD Map, LandDesktop and Civil3D
  • Comes with IntelliCAD built-in
 

PointCloud

  • Load Surfaces – Imports scan data from various sources
  • View Surface – 3D viewer for point cloud data
  • Scan Utilities – Routines to resample and filter scan data
  • Simplify Mesh – Reduces the size of the model by removing least significant data points
  • Survey PointCloud – Creates points and linework within the 3D pointcloud viewer using Field-To-Finish coding
  • Breaklines – Automatic 3D breakline creation based on surface zomes
  • Profiles, Sections – Trace an alignment across the site and generate profiles or sections
  • Contours – Create contours from the surface model
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Carlson PointCloud 2009  
$5000

 
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