Carlson Civil Suite 2018 Carlson, a developer quality software solutions for land development professionals in the surveying, civil engineering, mining, and construction fields, launches Civil Suite 2018. This solution provides the most robust automation and ease-of-use of any civil design solution available today, and it does dynamic updating without a single custom object. Enhancements to the Footprint Creator, LotNetwork, and RoadNetwork are just some of the newest features in the just released Carlson Civil 2018. The enhanced Footprint Creator allows users to place different style building footprints in multiple pads – it even allows tagging of “no build” areas. That’s added to the LotNetwork upgrades that draw driveways and determine buildable areas and setbacks to make designing an interesting, livable subdivision easier and quicker. For Carlson Hydrology 2018, the Sewer Network commands have been improved. “Users can now label the drainage areas for each inlet and Carlson Hydrology 2018 also has more controls for pipe label styles, supports negative step-up, and its reports now include multiple invert-ins,” notes Carlson. Improvements for Carlson GIS 2018 include the ability to utilize higher resolution Google Earth images even over large areas with the use of auto-tiling. And, more map types are available besides aerial for roads, terrain, or hybrid. The GIS editor now also supports the import and export of the Esri geodatabase and provides a smoother workflow with Esri ArcGIS services. Other top features that are in all Carlson 2018 releases include the ability to Fix Text Overlaps either automatically or manually; to Geolocate DWG Files with the new command to display placemarks in Google Earth; and the ability to set sun position by location and time in the 3D Viewer Window. Support for AutoCAD 2018 and the improved and stabilized IntelliCAD 8.3 join enhanced features in the just released Carlson Civil 2018, Carlson Hydrology 2018, and Carlson GIS 2018 modules. In addition to working with AutoCAD 2018, AutoCAD versions 2010 and up are also supported.