A Practical Guide to Carlson Software Fundamentals 2025

Digital Book ISBN 9781934865910
Physical Book ISBN 9781934865903

By Rick Ellis – Award winning Autodesk University speaker

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After Completing This Book You'll 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

What Instructors Say

I have been teaching with Rick Ellis and Russell Martin's AutoCAD Map 3D books several years. These Map 3D books have been an excellent teaching resource with easy to follow steps. I would recommend these books to any teacher looking for a practical guide.

Nick Shayeghi

Central Piedmont Community College

Rick Ellis is one of the leading authorities on Civil Engineering & Surveying software in the United States and the author of the Practical Guide series. He lectures and teaches seminars across the country. I have attended his seminars. The textbooks Rick Ellis has written have been an exceptional addition to my classroom. They are written with thought and imagination. They are direct and to the point. They are easy for the students to follow yet challenging enough to keep the students interested and using their skills and learning to think through exercises. I would suggest all Civil Engineering and Surveying professors review his books. Once read and reviewed I would venture to say, they will be using them in the classroom.

Robert Vetrano

Springfield Technical Community College

More About The Book

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.

It features 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 2025 book focuses on effectively using this powerful software, providing you with skills that other professionals are using in the workplace every day.

Instructors: this book is used in classrooms worldwide. Find out more about using it in your next class.

Written, printed and published in the United States of America.

Author

Rick Ellis, president of CADapult Software Solutions, Inc, has worked with and taught Autodesk Civil 3D, along with Map 3D and other Autodesk products since the mid-90s. He is the Author of several critically acclaimed books on Autodesk Civil 3D, AutoCAD Map 3D, Land Desktop and Carlson Software; including the Practical Guide series.

Rick continues to use Autodesk Civil 3D on projects in a production environment, in addition to teaching classes to organizations both large and small around the country, helping them get the most out of their design software investment.

This practical background and approach has made him an award winning speaker at Autodesk University and a sought after instructor by organizations around the world.

Weight	2.4 lbs
Dimensions	11.25 × 10 × 1.5 in
Type of book	Digital – Instant download, Physical – Spiral bound

Features And Benefits Of All CADapult Software Books

Lessons build upon one another using a contiguous dataset, providing consistency
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

A Practical Guide to Carlson Software Fundamentals 2025