Save and get only what’s needed with Carlson U-Pick Suites
Recognizing that its customers in the land surveying, civil engineering, and construction fields have diverse needs, Carlson Software is now offering U-Pick Suites. Customers will be able to choose from two to all six software modules from Carlson’s most popular options: Survey, Civil, Hydrology, GIS, CADnet, and PointCloud Basic and configure them exactly to their needs.
Carlson’s long-standing suite choices – the Civil Suite featuring Survey, Civil, Hydrology, and GIS and the Takeoff Suite with CADnet, Trench, GeoTech, and Construction – are still available at the respective savings of $3950 and $7500. But now, customers can save and pick only what they need with the U-Pick-2 priced at $2950 and the U-Pick-6 at just $4750.
Each can run standalone with the included license of IntelliCAD or on top of a separately purchased license of full AutoCAD. All Carlson Software purchases will be delivered by email with your new serial number and download instructions within two business days.
Available Modules
Here are brief descriptions of each of the six available modules:
Carlson Survey–A Windows software application for land surveying that manages the complete job cycle from field data collection to drafting a final plan with several CAD options.
Carlson Civil—A complete CAD-based, civil engineering design software for roads/highways and a wide variety of land development projects.
Carlson Hydrology–Provides automation to meet hydrology needs with full 3D road and lot design that feed directly into flow calculations and drainage design.
Carlson GIS—Provides tools for data capture and linking, data labeling, import/export of SHP files, polygon topology creation and analysis, and supports working with Esri®.
Carlson CADnet—Allows users to create CAD from non-CAD documents such as PDFs, raster images, and paper plans, generate CAD text from raster images, and to import or export BIM models into CAD.
Carlson PointCloud Basic—Works with cloud data, whether from drone, scanner or lidar, in the familiar Carlson environment to create points, breaklines, surfaces and other CAD deliverables for the production of a typical plan.
New for 2021
2021 General Carlson Software Improvements
AutoCAD 2021
Added support for this new version.
IntelliCAD 10.0
Tool palettes with key Carlson command. New revision control feature for drawings. Graphics upgrade with anti-aliasing, visual styles and lighting.
Carlson Photo Capture
New command to download project data including TINs, images, coordinate files and point clouds.
User Interface
Added 5 new ribbons, added 50 new toolbar icons and updated hundreds of icons.
File Selection
Added functions to create, rename and remove subfolders.
Save Drawing Named By Current Time
New command to create a copy of the current state of the drawing with a unique name by the current date and time.
Report Formatter
Added setting for attribute format for output to Excel. Added option to underline rows.
3D Viewers
Added ability to place text in the scene and draw text to CAD. Added support for TIN files with textures.
Google Earth Export
Added option to make polygons for closed polylines.
Join Nearest
Added setting to skip the options dialog. Added progressive filters option to automatically run multiple times with greater tolerances.
Draw 3D Polyline
Added ability to create a 2D polyline at the same time. Added method to create an arc to a specified tangent out. Added ability to simultaneously draw the polyline in the 3D Viewer window.
Draw Table
Added method to create a table from scratch using spreadsheet entries. Added setting for table justification.
Add Polyline Vertex
Added method for projecting picked point onto the polyline.
Boundary Polyline
Added method to auto-select entities to process. Colors From Layers
Drift Offset
New command the increases the offset amount proportional to the distance along the polyline.
Offset 3D Polyline
Added option whether to remove co-linear points.
2021 Improvements - Survey
Area Annotation
Added method to create both area labels and area table. Added options to label with underline and italics.
Line Annotation
Added method to place labels at a percent position from the end points.
Stack Label Arc
Added more leader format options.
Point Import Text File
Added option to apply prefix or suffix to point names. Added filter to skip points with a specified description string.
List Points
Added option to report GIS attributes from CRDB format. Added full set of projection definitions for reporting a second projection.
Point Group Manager
Added method to create a group by non-surface status and method to switch group definition to a point list.
Dynamic Point Attributes
New command to create point attributes that dynamically resize to view in the current zoom level.
Move Point Attribute With Leader
Added option to turn off snaps. Added setting to control offset from leader to the label.
Auto Annotate
Added suffix setting to total distances.
Edit Process Raw File
Added report of points by date. Added support for linking photos to points using SurvPC coding in the RW5.
Field To Finish
When redrawing points, the program will retain any custom edits of the label positions. Added setting for linetype text font style. Added method to set linetype by code or GIS attribute. Added prefix wildcard coding. For the pipe features, added option to use the code description for the pipe material or name. For the tree features, added support for companion codes for the tree canopy, option to skip treeline for specific codes, added setting to report in fractions of an inch and added option to only use the label setup for the table and not the point description. Added a separate setting whether to draw GIS attribute labels. Added new COLOR special code to set the entity color. For OH special coding, added support for changing the number of offset along the polyline.
SurvNET
For computing closures, added automatic traverse loop detection. Added option to report traverse point only, not sideshots. Added option to use the normal distribution for error ellipse on points that pass the Chi-Square test. The standard error results are now automatically stored as point attributes to the output CRDB file.
Legal Description
Added option to report course numbers. Added option to report railroad curve values and option to report scaled areas.
Double Proportion Line Division
Added option to output resulting point to the coordinate file.
Edit Text On Arc
Added option to change text offset.
Best Fit Circle
Added option to report using the report formatter.
Best Fit Centerline
Added option to remove outlier points.
Create Points From Entities
Added option to create points at center of polyline rectangle.
Change Polyline Linetype
Added option to set the text font style.
Offset Dimensions
Added option to create labels as MText.
Label Point Comparison
New command to label the difference between two points.
Label Offset Distances
Added settings for layer, style, rotation, curvy, mtext and sizes.
Label Coordinates
Added settings for number of digits before the decimal.
2021 Improvements - Civil
Grid File Utilities
Import georeferenced TIF files uses projection to set GRD position.
Triangulate & Contour
Added index label style. Added method to set label distance as a scaler by horizontal scale.
TIN Editing
Added undo within the editor and apply function to save the current changes.
Triangulation Surface Volumes
Added option to report deep cut and deep fill volumes separately.
Draw Curb Ramp
Added method to pick curb direction.
Design Pad Template
For grading limits, added method to put retaining wall next to pad and then slope to limits.
Cut/Fill Movement
Added option to apply shrink and swell factors.
Spot Elevation Links Manager
New command to report number of spot labels per surface and reassign surface file.
Export DEM TIF File
New command to create a GeoTIFF DEM file from a TIN file.
Quick Profile
Added settings for the profile colors.
Profile Editor
Added function to set depth from reference profile including method to transition depths between stations. For check stations, added ability to check offset as a cross slope.
Create Curb Profiles
New commands to create curb profiles from a reference EOP profile with series of different templates.
Draw Profile
Added method to clip grid lines above the profile lines. Added new stack profile label method to group values from multiple profiles. Added new grid style of ticks along axis. Added option to label CL stations for PC/PT along profile. New grid title setup for profile names, scales and datum.
Draw Section
Added method to clip grid lines above the section lines. For closed loop sections, added method to report over cut and under cut end areas. Added option to label subgrades with the end areas.
Design Template
Added method to force berm at top of cut.
Draw Typical Template
Added option to label template name and label subgrades for the right side.
Vehicle Path Tracking
Added option to hatch the path, option for path at CL offset, multi-axle support, method to pick icon positions and new description field.
Road Network
Added methods to Draw Profiles and Draw Sections for selected roads. Added support for self-intersecting centerlines. For cul-de-sacs, added option to adjust the centerline to the offset and added method for a hammerhead style with the curb all the way around. For intersection curb return profiles, added method for direct start to end profile without any PVI. Added method to turn off selected roads from processing.
Contour From Grid
Added settings for default layer prefix/suffix. Added option to draw labels as MText.
Surface 3D Flyover
Added model tree of entities in the scene.
2D to 3D Polyline By Text
Added options to keep the existing polyline and assign a new layer to the elevated polyline.
Station Polyline/Centerline
Added method to create offset points at vertices of reference offset polylines. Added option to label the northing/easting at the end point. Added text justification settings for deflection labels.
Station/Elevation Label
Added option for label underline.
Parking Perimeter Tools
Added separate methods for interior corners, exterior corners and extended corners. Added undo function and ability to change settings while in the command. Added graphic previews in the dialog.
Design Parking Inside Perimeter
New command to layout parking spaces inside a closed perimeter polyline.
Connect Driveways
Added option to fillet with curves or flare.
2021 Improvements - Hydrology
Time of Concentration
Added regression equation method used by LA County.
Curve Numbers
Added area precision settings for both dialog display and reports.
Peak Flow
Added Modified Rational Method used by LA County.
Runoff Hydrograph
Added Rising Limb Factor method.
Overland Sheet Flow Manning’s n
New library for this type of Manning’s n.
HydroNet Explorer
Added ability to process using EPASWMM engine and added support for Rational method. Added method to reference pre-existing values when reporting proposed analysis results.
Sewer Network Model
Added setting for initial velocity. Added snap to curb method for placing new structures.
Sewer Network Plan View
Added method to draw easement boundaries and added option to use wipeout with the structure labels when using MText. For structure labels, added option to draw a box around the labels and option for no rim elevations on outfalls
Sewer Network Profile
Added ability to label collision clearance of crossings. Added option to prefix or suffix layer names of the profile entities using the sewer network system name. Added layer and color settings for tributary pipe crossings.
Sewer Network Reports
Added subarea report for each catch basin with report formatter.
Check/Label Clearance
New command to label vertical clearance and elevations for two pipes picked in plan view.
Stage-Storage Editor
Added option for biofiltration, option for stone encasement for underground pipes and improved the report.
Design Bench Pond
Added option to use biofiltration.
Design Channel
Added circular pipe method and PDF reporting.
Check Collisions
Added method to check 3D polylines.
Laterals
Added new methods to create perpendicular connections on pipes. Added support for multiple cleanouts.
Import Laterals From Text File
New command to add laterals to the model using data in a delimited text file.
EPASWMM
Added assign average slope method for runoff input types.
HEC-RAS
Added boundary conditions. Added multiple steady state station/flow values to export. Added option to output velocity and depth points.
Utility Network
Added method to add utility lines by selecting multiple 3D polylines. Added method to automatically set profile at depth from surface. Added option to draw easement boundaries. Min Cover Check report includes position of min and max cover. Added method to link Draw Profile to Utility Network to auto update the profile when the network model changes. Added method to draw laterals on the profile.
2021 Improvements - GIS
Color TIN by Image
New command to assign colors to the TIN faces using color from a georeferenced image.
Point GIS Editor
Added method to add all attributes for a feature. Added imports for Trimble JXL and format settings for Trimble CSV.
Define GIS Features
Added import for feature attribute definitions from Google KML.
Import ODBC
New command to import GIS data from ODBC databases including relational databases.
2021 Improvements - Takeoff
Overexcavate Volumes
Added reporting of overexcavated strata volumes.
Water Table
Added method to model water table surface and report cut below water table.
