A Practical Guide to Carlson Software Fundamentals 2023

Welcome to the next generation of training materials for Carlson Software, the Practical Guide.

 The Practical Guide books have been formatted to maximize learning by starting all lessons with an explanation of the concepts and processes that will be covered; followed by real world examples in step-by-step exercises that you can perform yourself with the included dataset.

Carlson Software offers an extensive product line of desktop software solutions including Carlson Survey, Carlson Civil, Carlson Hydrology, Carlson Mining, Carlson Takeoff, Carlson Construction, and many more. While each of these applications has their own set of unique tools and functions, they also all share an extensive set of tools for setting up projects to store and organize project data, working with point data, working with digital terrain models, exchanging data with various other formats, as well as basic CAD drafting, editing and labeling functions. The mastery of these areas of commonality between all the Carlson desktop applications is the focus of this book.

A Practical Guide to Carlson Software Fundamentals is 314 pages, featuring 81 exercises organized into 34 lessons in 6 chapters. Each lesson includes detailed descriptions of processes and theory with many illustrations and diagrams, to help you understand “why”, not just “how”.

This new Carlson 2023 book focuses on effectively using this powerful software, providing you with skills that other professionals are using in the workplace every day.

 After completing this book, you will be able to:

• Navigate the Pull-down Menus and Ribbon Menus
• Set up Carlson Software to use the Project approach
• Work with Coordinate Files
• Draw Points into the Drawing
• Edit Points in the Drawing and External Point Database
• Create Point Groups
• Prepare Surface Data using Points and 3D Polylines
• Create Surface Models
• View and Edit Surfaces
• Perform Surface Inquiries
• Generate and Label Contours
• Perform Basic Drawing and Editing in CAD
• Import and Export Land XML Data
• Work with Google Earth and World files
• Work with Centerlines
• Generate Linework Labels
• Convert Carlson Point Blocks to Civil 3D Points
• Convert Civil 3D Point, Surface, Alignment and Label objects to Carlson data

Features and Benefits of all Cadapult books:

• Lessons build upon one another using a contiguous dataset, providing consistency through the entire book
• Skills learned through easy-to-follow, step-by-step procedures
• Sequential exercises that follow one logical, real-world example project
• Flexible datasets allow you to “skip ahead” to a relevant lesson, or use as an on-demand reference guide
• Detailed explanations and chapter summaries facilitate learning and retention
• Written by instructors with decades of industry and teaching experience
• Tested and refined in classrooms with a broad cross-section of students

Authors: Rick Ellis, Douglas L. Aaberg, PLS and Duke Gardner

ISBN 978-1-934865-72-9

Data Sheet: APG_Carlson_Software_Fundamentals_2023_TOC00.pdf