Carlson Software is leading a revolution in 3D design. We are doing this with Carlson Civil, Carlson Hydrology and Carlson Takeoff. The time is now, Carlson ’08 is shipping.
There are numerous firsts: Carlson Civil has 3D street intersections and cul-de-sacs built into its full-featured 3D design tools, Carlson Hydrology works directly from an accurate 3D terrain model and layers to design entire stormwater systems, and Carlson Takeoff contains unique elevating routines that take other “non-3D” or “partial 3D” drawings to fully accurate, gradable surfaces for estimating and machine control. It’s time to stop talking about “3D” and start working and living in it. You can with the Carlson ’08 product line.
Carlson Civil has revolutionary “network-style” commands to complete subdivisions in record time. With “RoadNet,” you can design entire road systems based only on centerlines that connect or cross as polylines. Everything else follows simple rules that you define, and RoadNet then produces full 3D road systems including “curve returns,” cul-de-sacs and all the “hard stuff,” in seconds. You can even output the special road elements for staking in SurvCE, selectable in the field as named cul-de-sacs and intersection components. Talk about automation.
Then using LotNet and SiteNet within Carlson Civil ’08, you can design your lots, based on frontages, required areas and even building footprint requirements. Then finish with a grading plan for each lot that can balance the site and respects rules for vertical offsets to the road curb or pavement edge. Try as many layout scenarios as you like, quickly and easily. The end result: a full subdivision DTM, ready for grading, survey stakeout or for construction estimation. Hey civil engineers, it's time to deliver the DTM itself! It’s way past time, in fact!
Carlson Hydrology has moved into uncharted territories of automation with HydroNet. Finally, the “unified theory” of DTM, layer recognition and hydrology and hydraulic calculations are available in the Carlson Hydrology ’08 module. You don’t fill out the blanks to do calculations —now you place your stormwater inlets on the drawing guided by low point and flow line analysis, and let the program compute runoff coefficients from layers, compute the exact catchment areas and “time to inlet” from the 3D model, and run rainfall events through the fully designed system. So you don’t just draw pipes in CAD, you review inlet bypass flow, gutter spread and depths, energy and hydraulic grade lines, and “know” that they will work. The dimensioning and design of the inlets and manholes appear in the plan and profile sheets, so all final deliverables are as real as the calculations behind them. Everything views in 3D, and collisions or pipe cover and velocities below minimums are systematically reported and avoided.
Carlson Takeoff—well, it is pretty much used to elevate and make respectable 3D surfaces out of the drawings obtained from other software. If you don’t make it 3D with Carlson Civil ’08, you can use Carlson Civil ’08 or Takeoff to fix it. For example, elevation leader lines and building pad elevations area used to take 2D objects to 3D. Then as a contractor, you can submit a more accurate bid, you can visualize the site and drive it in 3D, and you have the precise surface for machine control grading.
Civil engineering firms and contractors are discovering the power of Carlson Civil, Carlson Hydrology and Carlson Takeoff in increasing numbers. And we all know why—the alternative is to work mostly in 2D, or learn other complex software currently playing catch-up in
key aspects of
the 3D arena. Join us in the 3D revolution.
—Bruce Carlson, PE, PLS
President and Founder, Carlson Software
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