Contractors: Speed Up Converting Design Files & More
With New Features in Carlson Takeoff 2012

MAYSVILLE, Ky., U.S.A. — Carlson Takeoff 2012, released in September 2011, gives users increased 3D visualization, a whole new set of commands for working with PDF files, and the ability to produce customized, more professional reports among its many additional improvements.

A comprehensive and accurate CAD-based project-estimating and modeling software solution for contractors, Carlson Takeoff provides support in its 2012 release for AutoCAD® 2012 and comes with IntelliCAD® 7.0 built-in. This is in addition to working on AutoCAD versions 2000 and up.

“Contractors are increasingly getting design files as PDFs that often contain images,” explains David Carlson, V.P. of Development for Carlson Software. “The new routines in Carlson Takeoff 2012 that convert images to CAD linework speed up the process of making this image data useful.

“For road work in Carlson Takeoff,” he says, “we added the ability to break out cross section quantities by staging and also the reporting of unsuitable material for end areas.”

These new features, combined with a new and improved Report Formatter, make for more customized and more impressive reports.

Carlson Takeoff enables users to develop precise estimates to help win jobs, and then the software helps build accurate machine control models that output to all major machine control providers. CAD-based, Carlson Takeoff provides easy-to-use evaluation tools for quantity and quality control.

Along with Carlson Takeoff for 2012, Carlson Software is also releasing the 2012 versions of Carlson Survey, Carlson Civil, Carlson Hydrology, Carlson GIS, Carlson Point Cloud, Carlson Mining, and Carlson Natural Regrade, each featuring its own industry-specific improvements.

For more information about Carlson Takeoff 2012, visit your local dealer or www.carlsonsw.com, or call Carlson at 800-989-5028 or 606-564-5028. Carlson has been meeting land design professionals’ software needs since 1983.

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