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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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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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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.

Xutong N.
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What do you like best about Carlson Civil?

This review is about Carlson Civil Suite for surveying drawing. The software is very handy and easy to learn. Some of integrated functions can not only shorten the learning time but also help to speed up drawing time. The way that these commands run follows collection process of field surveying. I like the field-to-finish function. The tutorials in the help documentation really helps as well. Users can follow the step-by-step instructions to learn different aspects of Carlson Software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

The interface to access feature codes was a little bit of intimidating initially. There are so many settings you can choose and change. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Surveying mapping. Easy to follow and intuitive user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I like the Carlson package with the intelacad drawing engine because I used that previously. The integration with survey works very well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

I’ve had trouble upgrading from 2012 version. I tried 2013 briefly, then 2014 too. Still stuck on 2012. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Carlson Civil:

It will do pretty much anything you need as far as I’m concerned. Looking into some features I could use now and I’m sure they would work on it if I asked. You can tell by the many, many features that if you want it and they can do it, they will and have done so. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have used it for everything in a couple mines from blast pattern design and asbuilts to the complete mine status map calculating all the volumes daily, weekly and monthly. Many various other construction type projects for producing sketches and creating layout points for survey. I have also used the roads program designing and editing roads. Now I am using it for 3d ditch design for installing pipelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Felton W. B.
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What do you like best about Carlson Civil?

Carlson has always been a very good and user-friendly platform to do Civil Design and Land Surveying. I feel that they are lacking in their customer support. I wanted to purchase a updated version prior to getting Civil 3D and I never got a call from a salesman. So I figured my I was too small of an entity for them to support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

Customer support for me is more important than anything. I'm not particularly fond of internet sales but becoming more comfortable if it involves lower price. Carlson is a company that is hard to contact. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am just me and I need a civil software that is economical and user friendly. I don't do large scale projects and not a lot of road or sewer alignments. I need something less dynamic in scope. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Carlson Civil?

The most important reason is the ease of use. The navigation of the menus is easily accessible. With one click of a button you can go from one module to another. No need to have your screen populated with other features that you don't use on a daily basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

Accessing point data is a bit cumbersome. Maybe a new window to the side would be helpful. This is where AutoCAD civil 3d is a better product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

This product is being used to create drawing for civil design. The main goal is to have a product that transitions from different department in a company with ease. Carlson has done just that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Carlson Civil?

I like using the Surface, Annotate, Profiles and Section menus the most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

Not being able to use all the functions that Carlson has to offer, meaning that our company does not work in all areas of Civil engineering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Carlson Civil:

Make the switch, besides being a great software tool, Carlson has free support, what can you say about free support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Benefit: Being able to deliver a quality product to our clients with confidence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Very easy to use. No project necessary. Alignments, profiles, cross sections and surfaces are created independent from a "project" and can be created on the fly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

The surfaces that Carlson Civil creates are not as accurate and smooth as I would like but they work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Creating surfaces, profiles and grading for small power plant projects. Carlson Civil works great for these tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Carlson Civil?

Easy flow from CL design, sectioning, profiling, to even `DTM modeling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

I ran an older version that was slightly buggy, sometimes you would need to clear the programs memory which would return any customization to default settings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Carlson Civil:

Carlson has a large software and hardware database along with lots of support like classes and seminars, all and all a great company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Some road design, but mostly converting .dwgs to .tin files to be used for layout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Carlson Civil?

Carlson Civil and it's accompanying modules (mining, geology, cogo and hydrology) are easy to use. The help topics are detailed, have step by step instructions and provide detailed examples. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

The software packages are not as powerful as others available, but for the price they get the job done. Does not handle large amounts of data, memory limit and 3D graphics are slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Carlson Civil:

Shop around and understand what your end goal is. If you are looking for an easy to use software package that anyone can pick up and use Carlson is a good choice. There are more powerful software packages available for 3D rendering and modeling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Surveying, design work for surface and underground mining and mine planning/scheduling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I used Carlson Civil for DTM .tin modeling for GPS/RTK layout as well as machine control. Was able to build off of road sections or 3D poly lines the model I needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Carlson Civil?

Older version was slighly buggy and could freeze, it was very rare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Carlson Civil:

I used an older version, talk with a sales rep they will know the most about this product. Support is great at Carlson. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Model building gps layout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.