Carlson Point Cloud
$2,000.00 – $6,000.00
Carlson Point Cloud is a modular program that provides this powerful ability to go from field scan to finished plat, all with seamless integration to Carlson Survey, Carlson Civil and Carlson Mining. Carlson Point Cloud delivers a whole new level of powerful automation for large data sets.
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Description
Carlson Point Cloud is a modular program that provides this powerful ability to go from field scan to finished plat, all with seamless integration to Carlson Survey, Carlson Civil and Carlson Mining. Carlson Point Cloud 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 raster 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 up to 1 billion 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, grid and profiles to CAD.
All Carlson Software purchases will be delivered by email with your new serial number and download instructions within two business days.
Features
Data Extraction
- 3D extraction of poles, trees, and hydrants
- Extract data from clouds or meshes — TINs, Contours, Profiles, Sections and
- Breaklines — and draw them in CAD design
Import / Export
- Import/export of grids
- Import/export point clouds containing up to 1 billion points
- Import more cloud formats, including LAS, Leica, Faro (requires installation of conversion software), E57, DEM, GeoTiff, and more
- Export to ASCII, LAS, or PDF (new in 2016)
Multiple Scan Consolidation
- Register multiple scans into one cloud
- Merge clouds (new in 2015)
Anomaly Reduction
- Reduce anomalies with Clean Cloud and reduce density with Resample Cloud
Data Improvement Tools
- Continue data improvement with Smooth Mesh and Simplify Mesh (this
reduces the size of the model by removing least significant data points
Field-to-Finish
- Use the full power of Carlson Field-to-Finish with Point Cloud data. You can use the same FLD files you use with GPS or conventional total stations with Symbols, Line Work and Labels all drawn in CAD
Viewing Cloud Data
- Color Adjustment (new in 2015)
- View multiple clouds at once
- Color by Elevation or Intensity
- Adjust point size and cloud detail
- View as cross sections (new in 2017)
Draw Linework
- Multiple snap modes to extract edges and slopes
Surface Data Commands
- Load Surfaces — Import scan data from various sources
- View Surface — 3D viewer for point cloud data
Scan Utilities
- Resample and filter scan data
Breaklines
- Automatic 3D breakline creation based on surface zones
Generate Profiles & Sections
- Trace an alignment across the site and generate profiles or sections
New for 2025
2025 General Carlson Software Improvements
| Added support for AutoCAD 2025 |
| Added support for IntelliCAD 12.1 o Create and edit advanced blocks o Load/Save print stamp settings and quality presets in PUBLISH command o Drag/Drop drawings to tool palettes o Latest IFC support o Drawing Explorer is now fully supported in DGN mode o DATAEXTRACTION command is now available o more at 12.1 Features (intellicad.org) |
| MicroStation style single entity MOVE command (QMOVE) |
| Shrinkwrap by Gap - improved defaults and error handling |
| Better polyline width support in DGN mode (IntelliCAD) |
| Northing/Easting order setting is properly supported by additional dialogs, commands and reports |
| Cloud based network licensing to support sharing of license count between the 2024 and 2025 versions |
| Reverse background command (REVERSE_BACKGROUND) has been added to make it easier to work with drawing with washed out colors or use a projector |
| Added ability to collect crash reports from installations on AutoCAD, which was only previously available for the IntelliCAD platform |
| Join Nearest: Option not to combine similar arcs |
2025 Improvements - Point Cloud
| When user has Inertial Lab's PC Master Pro GL installed, the Point Cloud Manager will show a button to launch the software |
| Draw contours to CAD now allows users to draw index contours to a different layer. |
| Bare Earth by expansion is improved on very sparse point clouds and large point clouds will have bare earth processed faster |
| Extract Profile, Improved algorithm for smoothing/simplifying profiles. Simplified controls for polyline simplification. |
| Survey by Grid now only calculates estimated points and the point preview with "Show Dynamic Preview" enabled |
| Plane Extraction now has a designated "Base Of Wall" mode for extracting the plane and ground contact polyline |
| Create Tin now has a toggle for saving the TIN file with colors or not |
| Cloud Items now store the last orthomosaic image used for image based feature extraction |
| Added Cloud Compare routine. Allows users to compare cloud points against a set of truthed points and generate reports based on this comparison. |
Comparison
Click below for a feature comparison between Point Cloud Basic and Advanced (Download PDF Here)
Screenshots
System Requirements
FOR CARLSON’S CAD-BASED PRODUCTS
Carlson products installed on top of the CAD products of IntelliCAD or AutoCAD, are subject to the same requirements as the CAD engine itself. Please follow the requirements for the CAD platform listed below and allow an additional 750 MB of hard-drive space for the Carlson application.
INTELLICAD
CARLSON 2020-2025 WITH INTELLICAD 9.X, 10.X, 11.X OR 12.X
- Compatible with 64 bit Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11 (Vista and 32 bit are not supported)
CARLSON 2016-2019 WITH INTELLICAD 8.X
- Compatible with 32 or 64 bit Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, and 10
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
Intel® Pentium® 4 or comparable (minimum), Intel i7 or at least Intel i5 or comparable (recommended). Due to the variety of processors on the market, one can use cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php to do comparative analysis. While the overall processor score matters, the single thread performance is of the most interest.
- 32-bit Windows 7-8.1: 1 gigabyte (GB) of RAM minimum, 4 GB recommended.
- 64-bit Windows 7-10: 2 GB of RAM minimum, 8+ GB recommended.
- Windows Vista: 1 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB recommended.
- Windows XP: 512 megabytes (MB) of RAM minimum, 2 GB recommended.
Graphics card compatible with OpenGL Version 1.4 or higher:
- Recommended are desktop graphics level discrete (not integrated cards like Intel HD) graphics cards.
- Preferably Nvidia Geforce due to their more consistent driver support.
- Discrete ATI/AMD cards will be adequate, but ATI’s driver support has been spotty and user is frequently deferred to the computer manufacturer for support.
- Professional Nvidia Quadro cards are not currently recommended due to driver issues.
- Powerful gaming cards are not required and probably would not provide as much benefit as investment in more memory or better CPU
Learn more information about IntelliCAD.
EMBEDDED AUTOCAD® OEM ENGINE
CARLSON SOLUTIONS BASED ON AUTOCAD 2018 OR 2022 EMBEDDED
TAKEOFF R10, R11, R12 / SURVEY OEM 2018-2024
Please note the CPU compatibility below: older AMD CPUs like Athlon XP+ do not support SSE2 technology and can not run Embedded AutoCAD 2018 products.
- Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit only); Microsoft Windows 8.1 with Update KB2919355 (32-bit & 64-bit); Microsoft® Windows® 7 SP1 (32-bit & 64-bit)
- 4 GB RAM (minimum), 8 GB (recommended)
- 2 GB free disk space for installation
- 1360 x 768 (1920 x 1080 recommended) with True Color
- Windows Internet Explorer® 11 or later
- Install from download
CARLSON SOLUTIONS BASED ON AUTOCAD 2013 EMBEDDED
TAKEOFF R6, R7, R8, R9 / SURVEY OEM 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Please note the CPU compatibility below: older AMD CPUs like Athlon XP+ do not support SSE2 technology and can not run Embedded AutoCAD 2013 products.
- Windows® 8 and 10 Standard, Enterprise, or Professional edition (8 requires installation of AutoCAD LT 2013 Service Pack 2); Microsoft® Windows® 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium edition (SP3 or later) with an Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ dual-core processor, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology.
- 1 GB RAM (minimum), 8 GB (recommended)
- 1.4 GB free disk space for installation
- 1,024 x 768 VGA display with true color
- Internet Explorer 7.0 or later
- Install from download
CARLSON SOLUTIONS BASED ON AUTOCAD 2010 EMBEDDED
TAKEOFF R4, R5 / SURVEY OEM 2010, 2011, 2012
Please note the CPU compatibility below: older AMD CPUs like Athlon XP+ do not support SSE2 technology and can not run Embedded AutoCAD 2010 products.
- Microsoft Windows 7, or,
- Windows Vista, SP1 or later (Enterprise, Business, Ultimate, Home Premium) operating system, with,
- Intel Pentium 4 processor or AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 3.0 GHz or greater with SSE2 technology
- 1 GB RAM (minimum), 8 GB (recommended)
- 850 MB free disk space for installation
- 1024 x 768 VGA display with true color
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 web browser or later
Or
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Home Edition operating system (SP2 or later), with,
- Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 1.6 GHz or greater with SSE2 technology
- 512 MB RAM
- 850 MB free disk space for installation
- 1024 x 768 VGA display with true color
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 web browser or later
CARLSON SOLUTIONS BASED ON AUTOCAD 2007 EMBEDDED
TAKEOFF R2, R3 / SURVEY OEM 2007, 2008, 2009
- Microsoft Windows 7, or,
- Windows Vista, or,
- Windows XP Home or Professional SP1 or better, or,
- Windows XP for Tablet PC SP2, or,
- Windows 2000 SP3 or better
- Pentium III 800 minimum, Intel Pentium IV recommended
- 512 MB RAM
- 550 MB free disk space for installation
- 1024 x 768 with True Color
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 or higher
- Mouse, trackball, or compatible pointing device
CARLSON SOLUTIONS BASED ON AUTOCAD 2004 EMBEDDED
TAKEOFF R1 / SURVEY OEM 2004, 2005, 2006
- Microsoft Windows XP (Professional, Home Edition, or Tablet PC Edition), or,
- Windows 2000, or Windows NT 4.0 (SP6a or later)
- Pentium III 800 minimum, Intel Pentium IV recommended
- 256 MB RAM
- 300 MB free disk space for installation
- 1024 x 768 VGA with true color (minimum)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
- Mouse, trackball, or compatible pointing device
AUTOCAD®
Please visit the AutoCAD System Requirements page for current specifications which are subject to change without advance notice. Please visit the Autodesk summary of the Operating system compatibility for AutoCAD (Autodesk Bulletin TS14078105) for historical references between AutoCAD and its supported operating system(s).
Please see contents above for hard disk space requirements for the Carlson application.
PHOTOCAPTURE STANDALONE
| Hardware | Minimum | Recommended |
| CPU | Intel I9 / AMD Ryzen 7 | Intel I9 14 gen / AMD Ryzen 9 |
| CPU Cores | 8 / 8 | 24 / 16 |
| CPU Threads | 16 / 16 | 32 / 32 |
| RAM | 32 GB | 64 GB or more |
| SSD MVMe | 1 TB free | 2 TB or more free |
| Graphics Card | Nvidia GeForce* | Nvidia GeForce* |
* PhotoCapture does not use the GPU but note that Nvidia GeForce series cards are recommended for other Carlson Software products.
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Direct Technical Support
- Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM (EST)
- E-mail: moc.wsnoslrac@troppus
- Problems/Suggestions: Send in a report
- Telephone: 606-564-5028
- Fax: 606-564-6422