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.

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 enhance surface from contours
• 3D Polyline Tools: Draw, offset, fillet and merge 3D polylines

Surfaces

• Build Surfaces: By triangulation or rectangular grids
• Contouring: One step triangulate and contour from 3D entities as well as contouring from surface files
• Triangulation Utilities: TIN math (add, subtract, multiply, divide) by value or another TIN within perimeters, and offset, simplify and merge functions
• Surface Manager: Change surface display properties and adjust surface functions to add and remove points and breaklines and swap edges
• Surface Inspector: Real-time elevation feedback while moving over surfaces
• 3D Surface Flyover: 3D viewer with vehicle to drive over surface or follow 3D path
• Slope Analysis: Label and report surface slopes at selected points and slope zone analysis

Grading

• Volumes: Earthwork volumes between triangulation or grid surfaces
• Pad Design: Tie cut/fill slopes from pad perimeter to surface, build pad surface, calculate and balance volumes, and edit pad parameters
• Cut/Fill Color Maps and Labels: Draw shaded map of red/blue and flexible labels for cut/fill and surface elevations
• Cut/Fill Centroid Analysis: Outlines perimeter and finds center of mass for each cut/fill area with option to report optimized earthwork movement
• Earthwork and Material Quantities: Volumes adjusted by subgrade zones and material quantities for count, length, area and volume by entity layer
• Story Stakes: Create different styles of story stake reports

Centerlines

• Design and Edit Centerlines: Design or input alignments on screen or in dialog with graphics
• Label Stations and Offsets: Annotate station and offsets along centerline and at selected points
• Calculate Offsets: Reports stations and offsets for selected points along centerline
• Create Offset Points: Create points at specified stations and offsets
• Spirals: Flexible handling of the most complex spiral curves including “spiral-only” elements going arc-spiral-arc, arc-spiral-line and line-spiral-line

Profiles

• Create Profiles: From surfaces, screen entities, points on centerline, etc
• Quick Profile: One step profile creation with real-time update while adjusting centerline
• Input-Edit Profiles: Enter profile data in dual spreadsheet and graphic window, and design in reference to controlling profile grade points
• Draw Profiles: Draws profiles on grids or plan-profile sheets with auto-updating based on edits
• Design Road Profile: Create road profile on profile grid or spreadsheet with simultaneous profile, plan and section views
• Design Sewer/Pipe Profile: Create profiles with invert elevations, pipe sizes, rim elevations and manhole sizes
• Profiles To 3D: Create points and 3D polylines from profiles
• Profile Reports: Several report functions such as Sag/Crest for roads and Pipe Depth Summary for trenches

Sections

• Create Sections: From surfaces, screen entities, points, etc
• Quick Sections: One step creation of sections
• Draw Sections: Draw sections in vertical stack or on standard, logo-based sheets with flexible formatting and auto-updating based on edits
• Input-Edit Sections: Enter section data in dual spreadsheet and graphic window with drive-thru function
• Sections to 3D: Create points and 3D polylines from sections, with optional influence of profile, an essential process for creating DTMs for machine control on most highway projects, where sections “govern”
• Mass Haul Diagrams and Analysis: Calculate and draw mass haul diagrams and routine to report optimized earth movement by distance ranges
• Section Volumes: Calculates volumes between two section surfaces by end areas method

Road Design

• Template Design and Drawing: Detailed yet simple template design with unlimited subgrades, rule-based cut, fill and superelevation methods and routine to easily draw typical template
• Template Transitions: Define transitions for templates, superelevation, topsoil with control over each template grade line using 2 methods: lane width change by station range or “string” method where template IDs follow defined alignments
• Process Road Design: Applies road design, reports quantities and outputs sections, surfaces and template points
• Road Network: Dynamic road design with intersections and cul-de-sacs
• Road Design Inspector: Real-time viewing of road design in plan, profile and section views

Watersheds

• Watershed Analysis: Watershed delineation, ponding analysis, and real-time inspector for flows and drainage areas
• Runoff Tracking: Draws 3D flow lines that follow the surface model
• Peak Flow: Calculate peak flow by various methods from runoff parameters of storm event, drainage area, time of concentration and runoff coefficients
• Hydrographs: Route hydrographs from multiple watersheds through ponds and channels using TR-20

Hydraulic Structures

• Pond Sizing and Design: Detention pond sizing, bench and valley pond design, stage-storage calculation and graphs
• Spillway, Weir, Orifice, Culvert, Channel Design: Routines to design the dimensions and flows for structures plus reports and drafting for them
• Multiple Outlet Design: Combines orifices, weirs, drop pipes, culverts and user-defined outlets to design the overall stage-discharge
• Stage-Storage and Stage-Discharge: Routines to input, edit, report and draw

Sewer Networks

• Define Inlets, Structures, Pipes, Storm Events: Setup libraries with parameters for these network components
• Layout Structures and Pipes: Place structures and set pipe connections
• DTM-Based Runoff: Calculates drainage area, time of concentration and weighted runoff coefficent from inlet location on surface model. DTM also used to figure minimum cover for pipes
• Analyze Flow: Calculate inlet intercepted and bypass flows, gutter spread and depth, pipe flow depth and velocity, and hydraulic and energy grade lines
• Size Pipes and Set Inverts: Apply flow analysis to have program set pipe size and/or invert elevations
• Collison Conflicts Check: Reports any collisions between networks within specified tolerance
• Draw Sewer Network: Draw structures and pipes in plan view, in 3D using 3D Faces and in profiles

Points

• Import/Export: User-defined import and export of point data along with conversions with specific other formats
• Draw Points: Draw points with settings for symbols, layers and styles
• Point Groups: Point group manager to define sets of point by filters
• Coordinate File History: Tracks all changes to points with report and undo functions
• Fix Point Label Overlaps: Finds point label overlaps with rule options to fix automatically
• Point Tools: Utilities for modify point labels such as move with leader, twist and resize

Survey

• Data Collection Interfaces: Upload and download to popular data collectors
• Traverse Adjustment: Spreadsheet editor for raw data with graphics and processing for traverse adjustments
• SurvNET: Advanced network least-squares for total station, GPS and level data
• Field-to-Finish: Draw points with styles and in point groups set by point descriptions and draw linework by several flexible methods
• Field-to-Finish Inspector: Inspect all field-to-finish elements, see description source and re-draw based on descriptions edits.
• COGO: Streamlined inverse, traverse, sideshot, intersections, interpolation, translate, rotate, scale and align
• Coordinate Transformations: Transform coordinates and screen entities between lat/lon and grid projections as well as local to local by Helmert and least-squares methods
• Deeds: Enter deed by description, read deed data from deed file, deed reports, deed correlation and generate legal description from drawing
• Cut Sheets: Create custom cut sheet reports with reference grades and station-offsets

Area/Layout

• Label Areas: Customized area label styles and several methods to select areas to label
• Size Areas: Sliding side area, hinged area, area radial from curve and bearing area cutoff
• Lot Manager: Lot definitions by point numbers with functions to create lots, conduct mapcheck for closure, edit in spreadsheet with graphics, report lots and draw lots
• Lot Layout: Size lots along alignment with controls for target area, setback and frontage
• Offsets, Intersection and Cul-de-Sacs: Layout for ROW and EOP linework

Annotation

• Angle & Distance Labels: Flexible routines to label linework in all possible layout combinations plus available rules to automatically fix label overlaps and revise labels when entities move
• Curve Labels: Label curve data in stack, along arc or in table
• Survey Text: Routines to create typical plat labels such as offset and building dimensions
• Label Elevations: Label spot elevations along an alignment
• Linetypes: Draw special linetypes

GIS

• Runs with AutoCAD Map 3D: All Map tools are available when running with AutoCAD Map plus additional commands to use Map data such as Label Object Data Areas
• Data Capture: Extracts drawing text or block attributes into database
• Attach GIS Data to Entities: Input, edit, label, inspect and report with simple tools, including querying for parcels or entities that meet conditions
• Polygon Processor: Overlays layered polyline perimeters to create all the subareas
• Import/Export ESRI: Conversions between ESRI Shape data and coordinates and polylines

Companion Programs

• Carlson Field: Take Carlson and AutoCAD to the field for data collection and stakeout with total stations and GPS
• Carlson Takeoff: Construction Estimating for earthworks, subgrades, material quantities, strata quantities and trench networks
• Carlson  Point Clouds: Process laser scan data to generate models, breaklines and points
• Carlson Natural Regrade: Design stable land surfaces that follow natural hydrologic and geomorphology principles
• Carlson Geology: Models drillholes and strata structures and attributes
  
  

General Commands

• New Project Setup – Added ability to define data and drawing folders to associate with drawings. User-defined data folders can be specified for each data file type.
• Drawing Cleanup – Added several new functions such as removing overlapping polyline loops and fixing extruded arcs and text. File Selection – For all data file selection, added folder manager to set favorite folders for data files.
• 3D Viewer Window – Added ability to edit entity layers and elevations and to create selection sets.
• Transparent Commands – New transparent command of ‘CL for specifying a position by station-offset from a centerline at any point prompt. Created a new transparent command toolbar with this new station-offset command along with the existing ‘2 and ‘3 for 2D and 3D points by coordinate file point number commands.
• New Layer Inspector – New command to highlight, isolate and/or zoom to layers selected from a docked list.
• Report Formatter –Added more controls for sorting fields.
• New Selection Set By Elevation – New command to create a selection of entities within a specified elevation range.
• Add Points At Elevation – Inserts vertices into a 3D Polyline at a specific elevation or elevation interval by interpolating between existing elevations in the polyline.
• Draw 2D Polyline – Added method to enter initial distance and use cursor direction to start the polyline. Added method to specify reference centerline and enter points by station-offset. Added option to enter distances in feet and inches within extend mode. New option to label elevation of polyline.
• Highlight Crossing Breaklines – Added option for tolerance of elevation difference to report and option to merge 3D polyline with contour elevations.
• Remove Arcs Offset – New settings in Configure to control spacing on replacing arcs with chords.
• New Variable Offset – New command to offset a polyline with different offset amounts for each polyline segment.
• New Move Text – New command to slide text parallel or perpendicular to current rotation. Insert Symbols – New dialog interface for pre-defined layer, size and rotation.
• New Block/Insert Rotate – New command to set the angle of blocks by various methods.
• New Copy Polyline Section – New command to copy a portion of a polyline at the specified points and put copied portion on another layer.
• Align To Nearest Line – In Twist Point Attributes, Rotate Text and Rotate Inserts, added method to select multiple alignment polylines and align the objects to the nearest segment.

Survey Commands

• Point Protect – Added point history review, comparison of old and new coordinates and option to list points to the point protect dialog.
• SurvCOM – Added ability to transfer a range of points from a coordinate file and merge coordinate files with a new Merge Point Manager to handle any point number conflicts. For file overwrite protection, added ability to rename the files.
• Hot Field To Finish – New codes for creating 3D objects (building faces, walls, blocks, etc) using 3D faces. Added function to define a simple template to apply along linework. New code setting to control whether points are used for surface modeling in Triangulate & Contour. Also new code setting to create point groups by code. Added new setting for elevation label prefix and suffix per code and for all points. For data points report, added option to report only points with undefined codes. For codes report, added method to only report codes that are used in the current coordinate file. Added new special code for creating circles. Added support for PC-PT curves defined by two points and using tangents in/out. Added code settings to control the linetype spacing and size.
• Hot New Field To Finish Inspector – New command to review entities in the drawing by Field To Finish code. Point descriptions can be edited and the drawing is updated for both the point symbols and linework using the Field To Finish coding.
• Edit-Process Raw File – Added support for COGO commands of translate, rotate, scale and align. Added ability to use a separate control coordinate file to use as reference for station setups and for check point reporting. Added option to specify the traverse control points in a list of the points and with a graphic preview. With graphics window, new feature to highlight graphic lines and points for the selected spreadsheet record and likewise the associated spreadsheet record will highlight when a line or point is selected in the graphic view. Reorganized reports with sideshots and closure active to show the closure at the top of the report and report the traverse shots separately from the sideshots. Added more details for the Check Points report. For the modify measurements function, any changes are recorded to the rw5 file and added an option for a description filter. On processing, when a referenced backsight point doesn’t exist, the program has options to enter the backsight coordinates, enter the backsight angle or return to the editor. Added startup option whether to prompt for the rw5 file and added an exit option whether to automatically save changes to the coordinate file or prompt to save. Added a toolbar within the editor for common functions. Added another spreadsheet color setting for different colors between traverse and sideshot measurements.
• Hot SurvNet – New interface as separate command with option for graphics view. Improved processing speed. Improved 3D adjustment model. Added support for level data into 3D adjustment. Added support for control points and multiple angle sets from rw5 files. Improved initial coordinate calculations to handle two or more control points anywhere in job. Added support for Topcon .TVF vector files. Added support for LandXML GPS vector data. Added the averaging of the same control point coordinates while preprocessing data. Added import for Topcon digital level data.
• Distance and Angle Input – All COGO input fields for distances and angles support reading point numbers, units conversion and processing formulas.
• Edit Points – Added undo function. Added ability to sort by any of the columns in the spreadsheet.
• Edit Point Attributes – Added setting for the elevation label decimal places.
• Edit Multiple Point Attributes – Added selection method to pick point by point group or point numbers. Added setting to control the decimal places for the elevation labels.
• Hot New Coordinate History – All changes to the coordinate file record the command and status to make a coordinate history that can be reported by point number or by command. Commands like Drawing Inspector and Point Snap show the most recent history for each point. All changes can be rolled back.
• New Move Point With Leader – New command to move point attribute labels and draw dynamic leader to point node.
• Hot New Fix Point Attribute Overlaps – New command to adjust point attribute labels to avoid overlapping labels. Applies adjustment methods in user-specified order and tolerances. Steps through any remaining overlaps in an Overlap Manager with ability to manually move labels. This point overlap feature is also available within the Draw-Locate Point and Field To Finish commands.
• Scale Points – For the combined factor method, added the option to apply the geoid for the ellipsoid height for the elevation factor.
• Import Text/ASCII File – Added option to draw imported points by Draw-Locate Points or Field-to-Finish.
• Export Text/ASCII File – Added option to output point note data.
• Coordinate File Utilities – Added Helmert 7-parameter method for local transformations. Added function to swap northing-easting within the coordinate file. New Merge Points Manager for handling point conflicts when combining coordinate files.
• New Linework Intersection Points – New command to create points at all the intersections between the selected linework entities.
• Interval Along Entity – Added option whether to label elevations on the new points and added option to set same description to all the points.
• Label Station Offset – Added options whether to label parallel or perpendicular to the centerline and whether to draw leader.
• Offset Point Entry – Added method to enter increment distances. Added option for cross slope percent and vertical delta-z when using a reference elevation.
• New Set Point Elevation By 3D Polylines – New command to assign elevations to points by referencing 3D polylines.
• Closure By Point Numbers – Added support for entering a range of points or point group.
• Hot New Deed Reader – New command to extract deed line and curve data from the text of a deed. Shows the deed data in a spreadsheet and graphically. Deed data can be saved to deed file, drawn and reported.
• Process Deed File – Changed deed editor to a spreadsheet with dynamic graphic window to show deed perimeter.
• New Deed Linework ID – New commands to report deed name associated with selected linework. Deed commands that draw deeds now attach the deed name to the linework.
• Deed Correlation – Added the ability to apply the alignment to the points and select drawing entities. New report function to compare the survey and deed points before alignment. Added delta x,y to the Check Align report.
• Lot Layout – Added method to specify number of lots to equally divide whole area between them. Added method to define backlot by max setback distance instead of linework. Create Lots – Added the option to draw any new points for all the Create Lot routines.
• New Lot File By Interior Pick – New command to create a lot by picking a point and having the program figure the enclosing linework.
• Hot New Lot File Manager – New command that combines Input-Edit Lot, Draw Lot and Report Lot into one command. New spreadsheet data entry for lot data with dynamic graphic preview. Added functions to change direction of the lot, to change the point of beginning for the lot and to save and load lot name selections.
• Label Coordinate – New option to label the delta x,y and/or z between two points. Added setting to draw label at real z.
• North Arrow – Improved interface with dialog options and better default scale.
• Area By Closed Polylines – Added option to link polyline to area label and update label when polyline is modified. Added setting to auto-center labels.
• New Area Tables – New routines to define, create and edit area tables.
• New Area Descriptions – New routines to assign and report area descriptions.
• Hot Auto-Annotate – Added option to set line label positions by inside/outside of closed polyline. For line and curve tables, added option to combine table entries with same data values. For tight fitting labels on curves, added option to label curve fields that fit on curve and rest in curve table. Added option to label interior and exterior angles between adjacent line segments.
• New Draw Endpoint Leaders (Pick Side) – New command for placing crow’s feet on selected side of line segment.
• Annotate Bearing/Azimuth – Added settings for prefix and suffix to angle labels.
• Custom Label Formatter – Added method to enter quick-key style keywords to quickly change label format.
• Stack Label Arc – Added setting to justify label left or right.
• Line/Curve Tables – For AutoCAD 2005 and higher, added option to use new AutoCAD table entity. Added option to combine table entries with the same data to share a table number.
• New Mirror & Flip Selected Labels – New command to both flip and mirror the selected annotation labels.
• Special Leader/Leader With Text – Added options to set text position and alignment.

Site & Road Design Commands

• Grid Models – Improved the memory management for large grid files to make more use of the available computer memory.
• Triangulate & Contour – Improved speed by 33% and improved memory usage 25%. Added processing option to simplify the triangulation by a user-specified tolerance. Added setting to control line width for intermediate contours.
• Surface Manager – Added ability to add a surface into the manager by selecting a triangulation file.
• Triangulation File Utilities – Added function to Enhance Flat areas and improved routine to Simplify (reduce) triangulation. Added method for Merge tin’s to erase old tin under new tin and re-triangulate the gap.
• Design Pad Template – Added the option to use an interior triangulation surface for the pad design surface and on editing the pad, there is an option to apply the adjustments to this interior surfaces along with selected drawing entities. For slope groups, added ability to transition between different slopes, method to assign group between specified points and ability to save and load slope group settings.
• Hot Edit Pad Template – Redesigned as docked-dialog with ability to apply changes while still in command. Added function to balance pad and function to rotate pad. Also added support for double-click on pad entities to run Edit Pad Template.
• Fillet 3D Polyline – Added method to fillet two 3D polylines at their intersection with elevation transition along the fillet between the two polylines. Applies to merging edge of pavement polylines at road intersections.
• New Merge Crossing 3D Polyline – New command to merge a main 3D polyline with a side 3D polyline at their intersection by adjusting the elevation of the side polyline with the option for a vertical curve transition. Useful for merging 3D polylines of road centerlines at intersections.
• 2D To 3D Polyline By Surface Model – Added tolerance for picking up T-intersections.
• Volumes By Triangulation – Improved speed to be twice as fast.
• Contour Elevation Label – Added options to set break offset distance, label style and label index contours only.
• New Move Label Along Contour – New command to slide a contour elevation label along the polyline.
• Elevation Zone Analysis – Added option to subdivide 3D faces that cross zone boundaries for higher resolution.
• Slope At Points – Added option to label slopes in all surface triangulations and option whether to draw labels.
• Cut/Fill Color Map – Added option for custom colors and option to draw color map as 3D faces at real z.
• New Color Contours By Interval – New command to set the contour polyline colors based on the elevation interval.
• New Label Pad Elevation – New command to label the elevation of the selected polylines.
• Label Polyline Segment – Added option to label each segment of the entire polyline.
• Elevation Difference – Added more labeling options to the triangulation surface method.
• Story Stake Report– Added another report format option for all data for each story on the same row.
• Double-Click Editing – Double-clicking on centerline, profile and section drawing entities will start up the associated editor for that data file.
• Centerline Reactor – Added option to link centerline polyline with centerline .cl definition to update the .cl file when the polyline is modified.
• Input-Edit Centerline – Added horizontal curve speed tables and radius calculator. New function to fit curve between two line segments. Within the routine, added method to select centerline by screen polyline. Also added support for double-click on centerline polyline to run centerline editor. Added ability to select centerline points from point list or screen pick including the curve PI point.
• Draw Centerline – Added option to draw lines at curve PI. Input-Edit Profile – Added vertical curve tables with more default tables plus ability for user-defined tables. When a reference profile is active, the Check Stations and graphic window report the cut/fill with the current profile and the elevation of the reference profile.
• HotNew Road Network – New command to process multiple road designs with intersections and cul-de-sacs.
• Road Design Inspector – Added options to select second profile and section for reference.
• HotNew Input-Edit Road Profile – New command for designing and editing road profiles with dynamic profile, centerline and section views. Includes smart PVI editing tools.
• HotDraw Profile – New streamlined user-interface. Added ability to save and load profile settings. Added settings for colors, text styles and linetypes for profile lines and labels. Added options to label break point stations, elevations and description, and horizontal axis elevations. For sewer profiles, added an option to prompt for dimensions of each manhole. Also for sewer profiles, added option to label descriptions and added separate settings to control label precision for pipe lengths and slopes, rim and invert elevations and stations. For the horizontal label box, all the fields are user-defined for the sequence, size, layer and style.
• Point Placement On Profile – Added settings for prefix and suffix labels for station and elevation.
• Profile To 3D Polyline – Added option to station by a separate reference alignment.
• Profile To Points – Added option to station by a separate reference alignment.
• Profile Report – Added an option to use the Report Formatter for ground and road profile reports. Also for road reports, added an option whether to report the PVC/PVT stations.
• Station-Elevation-Slope Report – Added settings for prefix and suffix labels and label size for station, elevation and slope. Added option to draw symbol. Added method to pick station-elevation position to label without reference along a profile.
• Hot Draw Section – Improved parameter input to make section layout easier especially for sheets. Added preview function in the sheets setup dialog. Added settings for colors, linetypes and text styles. Added option to link drawn section entities with section files to update drawn entities when the section file is modified. Added support for double-click on drawn section to launch section editor. Added graphical selection for description match for break point label options. Added option to label description from section point files such as ROW section files.
• Input-Edit Section File – Improved editing of subgrade to link relative offset and slopes of subgrades with surface grades. New methods to update tie points. Added function to interpolate stations by range and interval. For interpolate new sections, added option to use reference profile for more accurate control of elevations.
• Quick Section – Added options for interpolation methods and whether to use descriptions by layer.
• Section Report – Added option for user-defined offsets to report and added graphical selection of descriptions to report.
• Calculate Section Volume – Added option to report using the report formatter. Added report option to show cut/fill ratio and balance at each station.
• New Input-Edit End Area File – New command for entering stations with cut/fill end areas in simple spreadsheet.
• Section To 3D Polylines – Added option to use reference profile for more accurate interpolation of elevations.
• Assign Template Point Profile – Added method to station by main centerline or template point. Also added option to select reference template for selecting template id’s from a list.
• Input-Edit Superelevation – Added function for a report of the superelevation stations and slopes. Added graphics to show superelevation stages.
• Input-Edit Template Series – Added option to not transition between templates.
• Draw Typical Template – Added setting for vertical exaggeration.
• Process Road Design – For the first dialog with the road design file setup, added functions to edit each type of road design file. For template cut benches, added support for triangulation surfaces for bench target in addition to section files. Added output option for existing ground sections for when triangulation is used as existing ground. New option to edit design sections before final report and output. Added graphical selection method for choosing template and subgrade ids to draw. Added settings to control colors of triangulation output. Added option to report using the report formatter. Added report option to show cut/fill ratio and balance at each station.
• New Mass Haul Report – New command to report mass haul amounts and stations of balance.
• Hot New Mass Haul Analysis – Calculates optimal movement of cut to fill volumes with option to set borrow pits and dump piles. Reports haul distances by range.

Hydrology Commands

• Hot New Watershed Analysis – New command to determine watersheds of a triangulation surface with several tools including draw watershed boundaries and sinks, inspect watershed with data at current cursor position, report watershed data, draw flow connections, runoff tracking for specified flow amounts, and watershed above point. Added ability to add and edit structures to the watershed model for inlets, channels and culverts.
• New Hydro-35 – Added rainfall maps for Hydro-35.
• Edit Layout Element – Changed interface to use spreadsheet for data entry of stage-storage-discharge data.
• Pipe Culvert Design – Redesigned to support more flow control methods, more inlets and support box culverts.
• Sewer Pipe Design – Added method to read pipe dimensions from selected segment of sewer network. Added function to draw detail of the pipe segment.
• New Orifice Design – New command to design circular and rectangular orifices.
• New Advanced Weir Design – New command to design weir spillways.
• Input-Edit Stage-Storage – Added stage-storage input by design parameters for rectangular ponds, irregular ponds and underground pipes. The user-defined stage-storage data input uses a spreadsheet.
• New Multiple Outlet Design – New command to combine groups of Orifice, Weir, Drop Pipe, Culvert or user-defined outlets and design the overall flow.
• Input-Edit Stage-Discharge – Changed interface to use spreadsheet for data entry. Added graph function.
• New Import Flow Velocity Points – New command to import Hec-Ras velocity data.
• New Import Flow Depth Points – New command to import Hec-Ras depth data.
• New Inlet Symbol Library – New category of inlet and manhole symbols in the default symbol library.
• New Inlet Library – New command to store parameters for curb, gutter and slotted inlets to use in the sewer network.
• New Rainfall Library – New command to store rainfall intensity by time for various storms for the sewer network.
• New Sewer Structure Library – New command to store dimensions and types of sewer structures.
• New Pipe Size Library – New command to store pipe sizes to use in the sewer network.
• New Pavement Manning’s N Library – New command to store manning’s N for surfaces to use in the sewer network.
• New Pipe Manning’s N Library – New command to store manning’s N for pipes to use in the sewer network.
• New Drainage Runoff Library – New command to store runoff coefficients to use in the sewer network.
• New Define Runoff Layers – New command to define runoff coefficients for different areas by layer name. Sewer networks can then use closed polylines on these layers to automatically calculate the sub-areas within the drainage and find the weighted average for the runoff coefficient.
• Hot Create/Edit Sewer Structure – Redesigned as dock-dialog for dynamic sewer editing in active drawing. Shows HGL for current pipe within the editor. Added ability to automatically size pipes and set invert elevations to meet specified design parameters. Added support for box and elliptical pipes. Setup distinct types of structures for circular, box, outfall and junction. Added option to link structure locations to reference a centerline by station-offset and automatically update if the centerline is changed. Also added option to link the rim elevation to the design surface to automatically update if the surface is changed. Added two processing methods of Analyze and Design where Analyze calculates the flows for the current sewer structures and Design calculates the flows and also adjusts pipe size and inverts for tagged structures to meet design parameters. Added more pipe materials including PVC and RCP. Added design parameters for min/max/normal pipe slopes, min/max cover and max pipe length. Added method to insert structure along existing pipe and make connections to that pipe.
• New Find and Replace Data Values – New command to change data values for specific fields in the sewer network.
• New Spreadsheet Sewer Editor – New command for editing sewer network data in a spreadsheet.
• New Check Sewer Network Parameters – New command to audit the sewer network for any invalid data fields or values that don’t follow the specified design constraints.
• New Check Reference Centerlines and Surface – New command to check that the sewer network structure locations match their referenced centerline station-offset position and rim elevation offset to design surface.
• New Collision Conflicts Check – New command to report any location conflicts within a specified buffer offset between sewer networks.
• New Review Sewer Network/Profile Links – New command to manage the active sewer links in the drawing.
• New Hydra Processing – New sewer network processing method to use Hydra calculation engine from Pizer.
• New Sewer Network Hydrographs – Reports and draws hydrographs for inlets and pipes from the sewer network using the Hydra calculation engine from Pizer.
• New Report Sewer Network – New report types for inlets, structures, drainage areas and pipes. Added support for report formatter for custom reports. Added report fields of flow depth and inlet spread and depth.
• New Move Sewer Label – New command to move plan view labels and draw a leader to the structure location.
• New Draw IDF Curve – New command to draw the IDF curve for the selected storm and return period.
• Draw Sewer Network Profile – Added ability to link drawn sewer profile to sewer network so that the drawn profile updates if the sewer network is updated. The structure dimensions for the profile are read from the structure library. Added option to draw sewer lateral connections.
• Draw Sewer Network Plan View – Added option to draw pipes as 3D polylines and assign pipe width to use with pipe crossing profiles. Also added option to draw pipes as double parallel lines at the pipe width. Added option to label percent slope and material type along pipes. Added option to draw labels in a table and option to label invert elevations along the pipe. New feature to trim the pipe lines at the structure symbols. Added setting to control text style of the labels. Added separate settings to control the layers for the labels, linework and symbols. Added functions to save and load the plan view settings. Added options for sizing the structure symbol by drawing scaler, unit size or actual size as defined in structure library. Also the dimensions of the outfall headwall symbol are read from the structure library. Added controls for rotating the structure symbol by current twist screen, relative to pipe segment, relative to reference centerline or at a specific angle. Added option to add the bearing quadrant of the pipe direction to the invert elevation labels.
• Draw Sewer Network 3D Faces – Added link for the 3D faces to automatically update if the sewer network changes. Also this command will use the structure dimensions as defined in the structure library.
• New Draw Sewer Network Centerline – New command to create a centerline for the pipe connections between the specified structures.

GIS Commands

• Report Formatter – For reports that use polyline perimeters such as Surface Mine Reserves, added ability when outputting the report to a database, to create Carlson GIS links bewteen the polylines and the database. Added more controls for sorting fields.
• New Create Image World File – New command to create a TFW file from a TIF image.
• New Label Areas With Object Data – New command that labels object data within Mpolygon areas with smart rules for different methods to handle any label overlaps.
• Data Capture: Text By Sample, Enclosed Text and Block Attributes – Rewrote these commands with new user-interfaces and creation of Carlson GIS data links.

Data Conversions

• CARIB97 – Added support for this geoid model.
• Civil 3D – New command to convert Civil 3D points into Carlson points.
• Idan Software – Added functions to output Idan .DIS linework and .REG point files in Write Polyline File and Export Text/ASCII file. Added method to import Idan .DIS linework in the Draw Polyline File command.
• Geopak – New routine to import Geopak section data from .soe files.
• Leica GSI – Added another method of GSI coding for the generic format.
• Leica 1200 – Added data collector transfer routines for Leica 1200 TS and GPS.
• Pizer – New routine to import Pizer cross section files.
• Topcon Pocket 3D – In the Draw Polyline File command, added method to import linework from Pocket 3D.
• Trimble/Geodimeter – Added command to import section data from .RLN files.