Carlson Civil - Road and Site Design Simplified
Overview
Carlson Civil provides the most robust automation and ease-of-use of any civil design solution available today, offering dynamic updating without a single custom object. With Carlson Civil’s wide selection of power tools, users can increase their productivity, creating better road, site, and subdivision designs in less time with minimal resources.
Carlson Civil can be purchased as a standalone module or as part of the Civil Suite, which includes Survey, Hydrology, and GIS. It can run standalone with the included license of IntelliCAD or on top of a separately purchased license of full AutoCAD.
Key Features
Carlson Civil users have an extensive selection of analysis and design tools at their fingertips, including these favorites:
- Road NETwork – Use it for the design of streets, highways, roadway intersections, cul-de-sacs, traffic circles, and more.
- Lot NETwork – Design and layout tracts of land including residential subdivisions, office parks, and commercial development projects.
- Site NETwork – Automate the tasks of sub-grade design, takeoffs, cost-estimating, and surface model generation, and migrate this data to GNSS-assisted machine control products including Carlson Grade.
- Design Pad Template – Utilized for complex grading scenarios involving foundation pads, drainage basins, parking lots, and more.
- Project Setups – Flexible data and settings storage.
- Data Compatibility – Import and export to various file formats including Civil 3D, LandDesktop, AutoCAD (dwg, dgn, dxf), plus specific data conversion.
CAD Standards
- Draw Standard Items: Create common CAD entities with predefined properties.
- Settings Explorer: Manage all program settings from a single interface.
- Settings Libraries: Setup tables for symbols, layers, road templates, etc.
- Data Depot: Document management for workgroups and archiving.
- Project Sub-Folders: Custom controls of data folders by type.
Enhanced Functionality
With Carlson Civil, users benefit from improved control and functionality, enhancing their design processes:
- Improved control over the display and functionality of the Polyline Elevation Editor.
- Ability to edit slope in and slope out for the Polyline Elevation Editor and added display options.
- Warning for polyline vertices that overlap.
- New Edit Curb Ramp Tag to modify ramp parameters for existing ramp tags.
- Added ASC file format support for importing Grid/DEM files.
- Option to manually enter elevation units if none exist in DEM.GeoTIFF files.
- Elevate Text now supports user-defined character for decimal place.
- Graphic display to identify intersections in Road Network.
- Improved Sewer Network Plan View Data Table display.
- Improved naming convention for ParkingNet.
- More labeling control for lateral connections in Draw Profile.
- Pipe crossing dimension control regarding minimum cover.
- Utility network profile pipe sleeve hatch feature and draw label feature.
- 3D graphic view to Retaining Wall Design.
- Options for 2nd and 3rd Cut/Fill horizontal label boxes in Draw Profile.
- Line Name Prefix/Suffix option for sewer lines in Draw Profile.
- Option for Intersecting Edge in Road Network to connect to an existing roadway edge.
Important Information
Important: This is a new end-user perpetual license. If you are a current Carlson software user, please contact us to discuss renewal options. Our dedicated support team is ready to assist you with any inquiries and ensure a smooth transition or upgrade to this powerful software.
Watch Our Demo
For a detailed demonstration of Carlson Civil and its capabilities, watch our demo video below: