Carlson 2007 is application software for land development, civil engineering, surveying, construction, GIS and mininig engineering which runs with AutoCAD. AutoCAD serves as the graphics engine and drawing editor for Carlson. Carlson 2007 work inside AutoCAD and use AutoCAD's user-interface, menus, and dialog boxes. Essentially, Carlson is an extension of AutoCAD that customizes AutoCAD for your specific discipline with additional commands.
Carlson 2007 consists of the following programs: Survey, Civil
Design, Hydrology, GIS,
Carlson Field, Takeoff, Natural Regrade, Point Clouds, Basic Mining,
Geology, Underground Mining, Surface Mining and Blasting.
Each of these programs can run independently or together with each
other.
Carlson 2007 supports the LandXML format by providing conversion of design files to and from LandXML. For more on LandXML, visit http://www.landxml.org.