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What do you like best about Carlson Civil?

I mostly use the autocad integration, so that I am able to harness the powerful features of Carlson Civil and integrate them into my daily and familiar Autodesk and AutoCAD environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

I do not use this as my primary program as even though it has powerful features, it can be too complicated at times. I find Autocad simpler and resort to Carlson Suite only when required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Carlson Civil solving and how is that benefiting you?

Through integration with Autocad, I am able to use features in Carlson Civil such as project-duplicate and free extrude, which Autocad lacks and/or can be very complicated to implement in Stock Autocad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Carlson Civil Overview

What is Carlson Civil?

Carlson Civil provides the most robust automation and ease-of-use of any civil design solution available today, and it does dynamic updating without a single custom object. What might take days with other civil software takes just hours, or even minutes, with the powerful, intuitive Carlson Civil: • Road NETwork. Build all roads, intersections and cul-de-sacs in 2D and 3D with a single click of the “PROCESS” button. • Site NETwork. Elevate your estimating accuracy with this intuitive layer-based surface generator for easy cut/fill and material quantities calculations. • Lot NETwork. Quickly define an entire subdivision of lots based on an outer boundary, interior ROWs or Centerlines, and a simple set of user-defined “rules,” then pick “PROCESS” and the lots appear, defined and labeled.

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Carlson Civil is one component of the Carlson Civil Suite and is designed especially for civil engineers and CAD technicians who need power and flexibility to make “short work” of even the most challenging design projects. At its foundation, Carlson Civil contains sophisticated and integrated command sets that are easy to learn, cost-effective and even fun to use!


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Harrison B.
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Harrison B.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Innovation of best civil designs with excellent suite"
The software enables all the sectors in the organization to track progress of projects and set implementation resources. It is easy to use and stra...
Christine M.
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Christine M.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Cloud Base Construction Platform."
Carlson civil is an easy civil engineering solution which helps creat excellent desighs and clean Engeneering drawings. The feature offers best cus...
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Rahul B.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Carlson Civil Suite is a lifesaver for CAD Techs and Civil engineers"
I mostly use the autocad integration, so that I am able to harness the powerful features of Carlson Civil and integrate them into my daily and fami...
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Harrison B.
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What do you like best about Carlson Civil?

The software enables all the sectors in the organization to track progress of projects and set implementation resources. It is easy to use and strategize efficiently for new civil designs. The given tutorials and manuals provide reliable directions that guide new and used users effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

The robustic performance has enabled the company to plan and design civil projects without any challenge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Carlson Civil solving and how is that benefiting you?

Carlson Civil has able planning and decision-making platform that enables team members in the organization to collaborate efficiently. It has advanced civil management tools that can design and monitor design execution. Most set surveys have been completed well with targeted feedback from our clients. The road and house construction networking system has been fully integrated well with the application to stimulate better results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Christine M.
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What do you like best about Carlson Civil?

Carlson civil is an easy civil engineering solution which helps creat excellent desighs and clean Engeneering drawings. The feature offers best customizing in business management than other softwares. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

I have nothing to dislike on this software because has the best road and bridge desighs and the ability to model 3D. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Carlson Civil solving and how is that benefiting you?

Carlson Civil has the best ability to model 3D and drafting of 2D documents is effective and easy to creat construction plans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Derrick C.
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What do you like best about Carlson Civil?

-Carlson Civil provides effective civil Engineering design functionalities and easy simulation tools and easy for the Engineers to adapt. The solution is suitable for quick and quality Roads, Highways and Roundabout design production.

-The CAD capability offered is productive, and excellent free support to the new designers and even the drafting features are very helpful for the Engineering project documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

-No detected issues on the Carlson Civil designing and drawing features or even on the first setting of all the tool designing functionalities and the drafting experience is fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Carlson Civil solving and how is that benefiting you?

-Engineering document and drawing drafting is faster.

-Design simulation functionality are helpful.

-Roads design production.

-Engineering project management.

-Engineering information collection and management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wendy D.
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What do you like best about Carlson Civil?

-Easy features to custom.

-3D modeling using Carlson Civil is excellent.

-Data migration within Carlson tools is amazing.

-Great tool for Engineering projects management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

-Functional design features for any Engineer with basic Engineering design experience to easily manipulat and produce amazing designs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Carlson Civil:

-Carlson Civil its the most functional solution used by Civil Engineers to effectively model various required 3D designs for the Engineering project and easy to manage the project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Carlson Civil solving and how is that benefiting you?

-Nice Engineering project design and drawings management.

-Civil 3D modeling.

-Easy detailing multiple Engineering documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joyce W.
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What do you like best about Carlson Civil?

This Engineering design solution provides clear and real 3D designs and within a very short period of time, and the product price its nice.

Carlson Civil has many reliable features for the different functions like Drafting enhancement feature which enables faster 2D documentation.

The free support from the team its also helpful and the Dynamic updating capability and i love the fact that Carlson Civil supports other design Tools like AutoCAD. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

For me i have nothing to complain about the Carlson Civil, its an easy design solution and the support its very effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Carlson Civil:

Carlson Civil its a major Civil Engineering design platform, reach of all the necessary designing functions for quick and quality services production and simple to start manipulation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Carlson Civil solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quick Road design creation, Civil Engineering project drawings production and so many tool usage advantages to the user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anjali G.
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What do you like best about Carlson Civil?

Quite simple product for production of quality Engineering services. This platform can still operate on AutoCAD and the user can easily manage pipe data through its wonderful simple commands. Provision of well detailed assistance headlines for the beginners. Very nice product for creating different types of Civil Engineering drawings. Accessing the tool menu of this tool is quite simple and the support offered by the tea is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

The tool is doing the nice job and its functionality and capabilities are the best comparing with the similar products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Carlson Civil:

Excellent software with great support team and powerful product for designing and drawing of accurate Engineering designs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Carlson Civil solving and how is that benefiting you?

Production of quality Engineering drawings and designs and also presentations to our clients for different projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Trey G.
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What do you like best about Carlson Civil?

Drafting tools, ease of use, surfaces module, surveying module not too much I don't like about it. Didn't realize how much I liked Carlson Civil Suite until I started using Civil 3D. TWIST SCREEN is SO much easier than DVIEW Twist or using an User Coordinate System (WHY????). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

I don't like my company doesn't use Carlson over C3D. Customizing Spot elevations to use multileaders so they are parallel with the twisted screen. Actually probably and Autodesk problem more than Carlson. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Carlson Civil:

For me it's a no-brainer to use Carlson over Civil 3D for just the ease of use but every module is just a better product that that of C3D. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Carlson Civil solving and how is that benefiting you?

Civil site development and surveying. Ease of use and ability of customization is much better than C3D. The drafting tools alone are an enormous benefit compared to other software packages. I will probably buy my one version to use at work so i don't have to design with C3D. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Austin H.
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What do you like best about Carlson Civil?

The ability to work with many different file types from the engineers to the field. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

That more of the surface viewing, modeling, and calculations are not more dynamically linked and smoother to transition between. It can also be difficult for users that don't have CAD experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Carlson Civil:

From my Civil construction experience it is great software for doing Takeoffs and light site modeling, but can be difficult for new users without AutoCAD experience to pick-up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Carlson Civil solving and how is that benefiting you?

We work with multiple software programs with their benefits and drawbacks, We do mostly takeoffs for estimating purposes, and light model building for the field. Carlson is a fundamental piece to our daily activities from pdf linework imports, and CAD clean-up to pad building and site excavation modeling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bill P.
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What do you like best about Carlson Civil?

Carlson civil was cost effective and intuitive to learn. My previous experience was with a competitor and when I branched out and started my own firm, I found Carlson for a fraction of the price. What I liked most was that the support was excellent and the modules that I needed came with the Civil Package without having to pay for a lot of add ons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

I really haven't found anything that has given me problems. The support is excellent but I suppose because not everyone uses Carlson my only complaint would be that I wish more training materials were available to compare with high price competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Carlson Civil:

Give it a shot. You won't be disappointed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Carlson Civil solving and how is that benefiting you?

By using Carlson, as a small business owner I could provide the same services as my competitors at a fraction of the overhead costs. I was also able to be more competitive on hourly rates because I had much less overhead to account for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Carlson Civil?

The ease of use of the Carlson Software is the best part of it. I have found that I can simplify work flows based on this. We use this in Pipelines and there are a ton of simple commands that make pipeline data management easy. Everything from centerlines and stationing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

I don't like the way Carlson has the product set up to check for a license each time you run a command. This needs to be addressed and should just be and Start Up. This would benefit users that move from the office to the field. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Carlson Civil:

If you are coming from a Civil 3D background there will be a learning curve. Just stick with it in the end you will be overall satisfied. there is also a ton of users out that have multiple help workflows for coming from one software to the next. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Carlson Civil solving and how is that benefiting you?

Over all cost of the software is better then the competitor. We can use this on multiple computer due to the cost of the project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.