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Source: The Star

Its managing partner, Abduli Huseini Motiwala, said the products are targeted at government, civil engineering, road construction, geographic information system, and land survey sectors.

The products are Carlson Survey 2006, Carlson Field 2006, Carlson Roads 2006, Carlson SurvCADD 2006, Carson SurvNET, Carlson SurvCADD GIS and Carlson SurvCE.

"Survey 2006, Field 2006 and Roads 2006 come with a licensed AutoCAD engine, while SurvCADD runs within AutoCAD," said Carlson Software Australia director, Michael Manning.

That makes the products fully compatible with AutoCAD 2006, 2005 and 2004 drawings and avoids cumbersome DXF transfers, he said.

As its name implies, Carlson Survey is a complete survey solution; Carlson Field is a data collection tool within AutoCAD which works with most brands of distance measurement and Global Positioning System equipment.

Carlson Roads combines the pipe, sewer and road design capabilities from SurvCADD with the AutoCAD engine and can read and write in LandXML file formats for transfers of design data over the Internet.

SurvCADD is an engineering and surveying software for design, construction and survey offices; SurvNET is a network least-squares program which automatically works out the mean of all horizontal and vertical angles including slope distances.

SurvCADD GIS is an office software for complex GIS projects while SurvCE is a Windows CE-based data collection software for land survey professionals using real-tile GPS and distance measuring terminals like the Windows CE-based Carlson Explorer II handheld terminals running SurvCE.

Some of these solutions run on laptops, allowing surveyors and engineers to design their maps and layouts in the field and to submit them directly to clients over cellular networks.

For pricing and other information, call Motiwalla at (03) 4257-7786, fax (03) 4256-2922 or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . You can also visit www.carlsonsw.com and www.ejmotiwalla.com.