July 17, 2008:
Carlson Software Introduces All-New Simplicity ‘Sight’ Survey 2009.
Get well orchestrated harmony of COGO and CAD with this new release from Simplicity/Carlson that’s perfect for DOTs and for firms working with DOTs.
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June 30, 2008:
Carlson Survey 2009 Embedded AutoCAD® Just Released.
Carlson Software’s new release provides yet another choice for the surveyors and designers looking for feature-rich, intuitive surveying office software.
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April 28, 2008:
Carlson Software 2009 Office Solutions Released.
Get ready for increased productivity plus the ability to create better designs with Carlson’s new line-up of land development software solutions for 2009, all built to run on both AutoCAD® or Map® and IntelliCAD®.
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April 21, 2008:
Carlson Software and HydroCAD Form Alliance
A new alliance between Carlson Software Inc. and HydroCAD Software Solutions, LLC, to take advantage of the strengths of both companies and to benefit both companies' customers was recently revealed at the Carlson Silver Anniversary User Conference. HydroCAD is a Computer Aided Design tool used by civil engineers for modeling stormwater runoff.
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April 14, 2008:
Carlson Software to Give Users CAD Platform Choice.
At the opening session of the Carlson Silver Anniversary User Conference, Bruce Carlson, president and founder of Carlson Software Inc., announced the addition of the ability to run on IntelliCAD® (ICAD) to the 2009 releases of Carlson Software.
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March 11, 2008:
Carlson Software and Prolec U.K. Announce OEM Partnership.
Under a new agreement with Carlson Software, Prolec U.K. will be providing European distribution of Carlson machine control software and products.
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March 11, 2008:
All-New Carlson Grade 3.0 Introduced by Carlson Software.
Now contractors and heavy equipment operators have no need to buy or install more software than they need. Learn about Grade's Upgrade Option Authorization, Open Positioning Architecture, and User Defined Interface.
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March 3, 2008:
Carlson Software forms new Positioning & Machine Control Division
The construction industry is rapidly embracing technology and Carlson Software is ready with the newly formed Positioning & Machine Control Division incorporating its machine control software development team, a specialized sales force and global OEM distribution.
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Carlson Civil 2007 is the flagship office product from Carlson Software and covers the functionality of road, site and subdivision design, hydrology, surveying and GIS. Carlson Civil 2007 runs atop any AutoCAD, including regular AutoCAD, AutoCAD Map, Land Desktop or Civil 3D, versions 2000-2007.

Built from the Carlson SurvCADD product line, first introduced in 1989, Carlson Civil 2007 delivers a new level of powerful automation combined with unmatched ease-of-use through dozens of brand new commands along with hundreds of user-driven improvements. Carlson Civil 2007 is a simply remarkable solution for the civil design, construction and surveying office.

Carlson Civil Top Ten List

1 Built on AutoCAD: AutoCAD from Autodesk is the foundation for Carlson Civil. After over 15 years of developing applications inside AutoCAD, Carlson Software knows how to work well with AutoCAD. Carlson Civil gives you a choice from a range of AutoCAD platforms. Carlson Civil runs inside AutoCAD 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2002, 2000i and 2000 as well as AutoCAD Map 3D 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, R6, R5, R4.5 and R4. Also, Carlson Civil runs inside the AutoCAD Map 3D that comes with Autodesk Civil 3D 2007, 2006, 2005 and with Autodesk Land Desktop 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 and R3.
2 Free Support: Carlson Software provides free technical support by phone as well as email, discussion groups and webcasts. This open support ensures that we keep the software easy to use. Quality software makes tech support manageable. The direct support also keeps us in touch with customers for feedback on where to improve the software. There’s no limit on the number of support calls and no product retirement. We service all our products for all the versions.
3 Technological Innovation: Carlson Civil is leading the industry with breakthrough features in survey, road design and hydrology. Survey has key routines from advanced network least-squares processing in SurvNet to smart point and annotation labels with rules for overlap prevention. In road design, RoadNet creates a dynamic 3D model of multiple roads including intersections and cul-de-sacs. The storm sewer network program offers true “TIN-based” hydrology. It combines hydraulic flow analysis with structure layout and surface watershed modeling to automate calculation of drainage areas along with the weighted runoff coefficient and time of concentration.
4 Smart and Simple Civil Objects: Carlson Civil has dynamic civil data objects for elements such as points, centerlines, profiles, cross-sections and sewer networks. These objects remember their display properties and can be setup to update automatically or by explicit command when the source data changes. By attaching extended entity data to standard AutoCAD entities, Carlson Civil creates these dynamic objects without introducing custom entities. Using standard AutoCAD entities allows regular drafting on the entities and keeps it simple for sharing drawings with other companies.
5 Full Project Cycle: Carlson Software offers the most complete software solution from surveying to engineering to construction. For field data collection, Carlson SurvCE runs in Windows CE on handheld devices and Carlson Field runs in AutoCAD on ruggedized computers. In the office, there’s Carlson Civil for the design and drafting along with Carlson Takeoff for construction estimating. Back to the field for stakeout, Carlson SurvCE and Carlson Field use the design data. Then Carlson Grade takes the design model onto equipment for machine control. At each step in this process, the same data model is used which skips re-work and data conversions. For instance, Carlson SurvCE and Carlson Civil have the same raw data file and field-to-finish coding. These products are all developed in-house and share similar user-interfaces which simplifies support and training across products.
6 Independent: Independence fosters innovation. Our vision is to stay independent, and serve the industry by serving the end-user, from the hyper-efficient, one-man survey firm to large government agencies like the Office of Surface Mining. Growing to sell out or go public is the strategy of Wall Street, where the end-user is secondary to the internal goals of the business. We take the opposite view. Success can only be measured in the quality of the product and the satisfaction of the individuals who use the product, and we will never give up the freedom to take customer input and deliver on better, improved software that “does more”. Carlson Software is committed to remain an independent company, free to provide service, free to innovate, supportive of our corporate partners and dealers and focused on our customers. There are very few companies like ours left in this age of consolidation and “vertical”, manufacturer-driven solutions. We believe that the lateral suite of all-purpose software, provided by an independent software company integrating all applications from office to field, is the best way to provide service to our industry.
7 Largest Third Party in Market: Carlson Software is the largest 3rd party developer in the civil/survey software market. And Carlson Software is growing fast, averaging 35% sales growth per year for the last five years.
8 Data Compatibility: From data collection interfaces to cross-section conversions, Carlson Civil provides data interoperability with many other packages. Carlson Civil supports the industry standard LandXML format for civil data exchange as well as the nearly all file formats of the total station/GPS manufacturers. With all these conversions combined with running inside AutoCAD, the market leading CAD platform, Carlson Civil covers a lot of bases.
9 Flexible Project Setup: Carlson Civil project setup supports user-defined project subfolders along with control over default file locations by data type. Alternatively, project setup can be turned off. Then drawings can be simply opened and worked on with the data files stored in the drawing folder.
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 No Forced Upgrades: Carlson Software is continually working on improvements for Carlson Civil with new releases on an annual schedule. The new features in these releases are customer-driven and we aim to maintain consistent data formats and workflows. When the new releases are available, we expect customers to upgrade based on the merits of the new features. As stated under support, Carlson Sofware supports all our products for all versions and we have no product retirement.
 

General

  • Built on AutoCAD: Runs in AutoCAD versions 2007 to 2000 as well as AutoCAD Map, LandDesktop 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

3D Data

  • Elevate 2D to 3D: For spot elevation, polylines, contours and pads
  • Edit-Assign Polyline Elevations: Elevates 3D polylines using control points
  • Create Ridge Polylines From Contours: Creates 3D polylines for ridges, valleys and summits to