About the Course
About This Course
This course is an essential resource for all surveyors and survey technicians utilizing Carlson Survey to perform all types of survey calculations and deliverables. Critical components of Carlson Survey are covered in a clear and comprehensive approach that enables the reader to quickly learn these key topics and effectively put them to use in their daily workflow. Each lesson contains a discussion of the background of the topic and its real world applications, followed by step-by-step exercises that demonstrate how to make them work for you.
About Carlson Survey Software
Carlson Survey is surveyors' #1 software choice. With Survey you get a full tool kit - everything from network least squares to surface modeling. You can work seamlessly between office and field, establishing company-wide design styles. Survey can create GIS links and exchange ESRI data. Users can choose the platform Carlson Survey works on: AutoCAD® (sold separately) or IntelliCAD® (built in). Users can also choose Carlson Survey OEM with built-in engine powered with Autodesk® technology. Carlson Survey together with Carlson's popular data collection software options -- SurvCE, SurvPC and Field provide powerful, effective and accurate "Field to Finish". Symbols, points and linework are drawn automatically in Carlson Survey as well as drawings in SurvCE, SurvPC and Field process perfectly and easily in Carlson Survey.
Topics Covered:
Configuration and Drawing Setup
Settings/Defaults
Drawing Templates
Project Management
Basic Drawing Commands
Drawing orientation and inquiry commands
2D and 3D line work
Drawing curves
Modify and editing a drawing
Dimensioning and variables
Points
Reading point data from collectors/ASCII files
Placing and manipulating point data within a drawing
Managing a coordinate file
Processing Raw Field Data
Raw data editor
SurvNET
Import/Export formats
Introduction of Field to Finish
Code tables
Lines, symbols and annotations
Multiple coding
Special codes
Surface Modeling
Triangulate and contour
Adding 3D site data to surface
Creating an existing profile
Cogo Commands and Deed Processing
Entering deeds
Deed Files
Legal Description Writer
Map Checks
Deed Correlation (creating a "fit")
Annotating
Annotation Defaults
Auto-annotate
Symbols/blocks
Title blocks
Subdivisions and Roadways
Creating a centerline alignment
Creating a roadway
Creating Lots
LotNET (the automation of creating a subdivision)
Lots Areas and Annotating Plans
Annotation and Area Defaults
Auto-annotating
Dynamic Areas