
Carlson Software
Lead the Field with the latest release of Carlson's Family of CAD Products
Southern Instruments & Software: A proud partner with Carlson Software
Carlson’s latest desktop software release brings usrs new features, increased speed, and more efficient workflows.
Carlson 2021 comes with the power of IntelliCAD 10, the newly-released update to CAD platform that brings increased speed, new features, and a fast, efficient new user interface for Carlson users, and is also compatible with AutoCAD 2017-2021.
The 2021 release also delivers powerful new integrations with Carlson’s photogrammetry solution, PhotoCapture, as well as the ability to insert and manipulate BIM models in a drawing, as well as many other time-saving innovations and automated new features, as well as improvements to many major existing elements.

Drill and Blast allows for quick and easy blast pattern layouts, with real time 3D editing and instant feedback. Criteria such as distance from the highwall face, or comparison of design vs. as-drilled hole locations are analyzed the entire length of each hole and color coded warnings indicate if there is a discrepancy.
Discounts Apply:
$3,000

Carlson Precision 3D Hydro is a powerful 3D editing software for designing storm-water related systems. P3D Hydro allows drag-and-drop options for strategically placing pipes and culverts and for selecting headwalls and endwalls. It enables the sizing of culverts and delineation of drainage areas, plus tracking of runoff from surface models.
Discounts Apply:
$1,500

Carlson CSI Office is designed with powerful forensic diagramming capabilities to measure and map crime scenes and traffic accidents. CSI is ideal for city and county police departments, State Police and consulting firms engaged in accident reconstruction.
On its own or together with CSI Mobile, CSI Office can effectively and accurately reconstruct crash or crime scenes, complete with full 3D scene viewing.
Discounts Apply:
$1,000

Carlson Point Cloud is a modular program that provides this powerful ability to go from field scan to finished plat, all with seamless integration to Carlson Survey, Carlson Civil and Carlson Mining.
Carlson Point Cloud delivers a whole new level of powerful automation for large data sets. It gives laser scanner users the ability to process millions of data points with Carlson Software ease-of-use and also allows users to export surface models, points, contours, breaklines, grid and profiles to CAD.
Discounts Apply:
$1,750

Designed for use by surveyors, civil engineers, and contractors, Precision 3D Topo allows users to import survey data, points, polylines, surfaces, point clouds, both traditional LIDAR and aerial drone survey data, and more from a wide variety of programs and entities to create usable 3D surfaces.
Discounts Apply:
$1,750

Carlson iCAD is an affordable CAD program that is .dwg file based & built with IntelliCAD®. In addition to the full-featured CAD functions of IntelliCAD, Carlson iCAD includes many handy drafting and annotation commands from Carlson Software such as Polyline Utilities & Auto Annotate and is designed to fit into your production workflow. Carlson iCAD allows drafters to finish drawings and engineers to review drawings.
Discounts Apply:
$595

Point Cloud Advanced contains all of the functionality of Basic plus the ability to extract features such as trees, hydrants and poles. It also allows the creation of solids and utilizes typical Carlson cross section alignments to extract cross sections and profiles.
You can select cloud data by color or elevation and create regions for isolating portions of a cloud for editing or extracting features. A notable feature is the ability to simplify a TIN and create smoother looking contour lines.
Discounts Apply:
$5,000