Topcon Field
Topcon Field streamlines data collection and instrument control for surveying and construction. It supports GNSS rovers, robotic total stations, scanning total stations and digital levels.
Designed for rugged tablets and Android devices, Topcon Field connects field crews with office teams for efficient, real-time workflows.
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Description
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About This Product
MicroSurvey CAD is stand-alone—no need to export to another CAD program for drafting, COGO, or plotting. Open files from architects, engineers or clients, clean up the source, and add points, alignments or surfaces for staking with ease.
Construction surveyors rely on MicroSurvey CAD to prep staking plans, calculate bolt patterns and pier corners, and auto-compute offsets to avoid rework. Once fieldwork is complete, you’ve got built-in tools for QA checks, volume reporting, alignment design and as-builts.
For legal surveyors, MicroSurvey CAD is built to scale—whether you’re working on a simple right-of-way or a 150-lot subdivision. Modify plans quickly, add or subtract phases, and manage the full project lifecycle in one place.
COGO, traverse, drafting and reporting tools are all integrated—no middleware, no exports. Smart CAD entities let you draw and label in one step, while lot closure reports are easy to generate from your labels or printed plans.
Platforms & Editions
MicroSurvey CAD – IntelliCAD engine
- Basic –
- Standard – + COGO utilities
- Premium – + DTM, volumes, traversing
- Ultimate – + Point cloud tools
- Studio – + Animation and visualization
Core Features
- Field-to-finish workflow
- Powerful COGO and geodetic tools
- Traverse and network adjustments (classical and least squares)
- Active Drawing Technology (real-time editing in CAD)
- Customizable UI and toolbars
- Road and site design tools
- Built-in training (12+ hrs of video)
File Format Support
- DWG, DXF
- LiDAR: LAS, E57, ASCII
- GIS: Shapefiles, GeoTIFF, GeoPDF, DGN
- KML, SketchUp, ERDAS, Garmin, and more (150+ formats supported)
Licensing & Training
- USB keys for portability
- Network licenses for teams
- Softkey options available
- Built-in training videos (12 hours) = thousands of pages of docs

Purchase of this product includes a 1 year Customer Care Package (CCP) for your new MicroSurvey product. With an active MicroSurvey Customer Care Package (CCP), you can trust that your investment is well-supported—freeing up your team’s time and resources to focus on growing your business.
Topcon Field Configuration Options
- 1-year Customer Care Package (CCP) subscription
- Autodesk Compatible IntelliCAD Engine
- Work natively in DWG file format
- Lots, Blocks and Areas
- Smart Lines, Arcs, Polylines and Labels
- COGO and Batch COGO
- Basic CAD Drawing Commands
- Traverse Editing and Adjustment
- Load Aerial Imagery and Maps from Web Mapping Services and HXGN Imagery
- Lot Closures (Map Check) and Metes and Bounds Descriptions
- Survey Computations for Linear Regression, Helmert’s, RTS. Lines, Curves and More
- Building Library and House Placement Routines
- Native Support for dwg. dxf, dgn, dae files
- Full Suite of Text Commands
- Basic CAD Editing Commands
- Cadastral Annotation Tools
- Field to Finish Automated Diagramming
- Staking Reports and QA Tools
- All Major Data Collector Format Import/Export
- Import/Export, Basic CAD and all Cadastral Functions Active Drawing Technology Grid Based Editor for
- Handling Points Database, Batch COGO and Traverse Files
- Geodetic Tools, Ground to Grid Scaling, KML Export
- All the functionality of the Basic Edition
- Lots, Blocks and Areas
- Autodesk Compatible IntelliCAD Engine
- Smart Lines, Arcs, Polylines and Labels
- COGO and Batch COGO
- Basic CAD Drawing Commands
- Traverse Editing and Adjustment
- Load Aerial Imagery and Maps from Web Mapping Services and HXGN Imagery
- Lot Closures (Map Check) and Metes and Bounds Descriptions
- Survey Computations for Linear Regression, Helmert’s, RTS. Lines, Curves and More
- Building Library and House Placement Routines
- Native Support for dwg. dxf, dgn, dae files
- Full Suite of Text Commands
- Basic CAD Editing Commands
- Cadastral Annotation Tools
- Field to Finish Automated Diagramming
- Staking Reports and QA Tools
- All Major Data Collector Format Import/Export
- Import/Export, Basic CAD and all Cadastral Functions
- Active Drawing Technology Grid Based Editor for
- Handling Points Database, Batch COGO and Traverse Files
- Geodetic Tools, Ground to Grid Scaling, KML Export
- All the functionality of the Basic and Standard Editions
- Import Shape Files and GIS Data
- Contours and TINS
- Volumetrics
- Alignment Design
- Sewer Design
- Modeling and Design
- Hoops 3D rendering
- Site Design
- Cross sections
- All the functionality of the Basic , Standard and Premium Editions
- Point Cloud Functions
- Clipping, Slicing and Sections
- Points on Grid for Bare Earth DTM
- TruSpace
- Import point clouds in the Leica LGS format, and with a Leica Publisher Pro license LAS and 57
- Leica Geosystems ECW Pointcloud Engine
- 3D Cad Drafting in Pointcloud
- Visibility Options
- Workplane Tools
- Support for Jetstream
- All the functionality of the Basic , Standard, and Ultimate Editions
- Animation Utilities
- Keyframe Based Animation Editor
- Export to Many Video Formats
- Animated Objects and Camera Fly Throughs
- Multiple Cameras
Carlson’s desktop software must be installed with a CAD platform such as IntelliCAD, AutoCAD or embedded AutoCAD (OEM). Carlson Software includes a perpetual license of IntelliCAD with their “For CAD” modules but also allows users to install the program on top of your own separately purchased license of a full AutoCAD-based program such as AutoCAD, Map or Civil 3D.
Carlson Survey and Carlson Takeoff are the only 2 programs that can be purchased with an embedded AutoCAD (OEM) license.
ALL Carlson desktop products work natively in the latest DWG format. This means that you create DWG files, you open DWG files and you save DWG files – there is no need to import, export or convert to others using a different CAD-based program.
Your purchase of Carlson includes a perpetual license of the Carlson program and either IntelliCAD or embedded AutoCAD (OEM).
Carlson Software can be purchased as individual modules or by bundling 2 or more products at a discounted price so you only pay for what you need!
Carlson Civil Suite includes the Survey, Civil, Hydrology and GIS modules and compares to Autodesk Civil 3D.
Carlson CADnet is a single module that’s functionality is comparable to Autodesk Raster Design.
You can also use a Select Suite to build your own bundle of a Pick 2, Pick 3, Pick 4, Pick 5 or Pick 6 choosing from Survey, Civil, Hydrology, GIS, CADnet and Point Cloud Basic.
Carlson Takeoff Suite and Takeoff with embedded AutoCAD (OEM) is comparable to Paydirt (retired), Quest Construction and Agtek software programs.
All Carlson desktop software products provide a wide range of conversion and import and export functions for other file formats such as Civil 3d, LandXML, Topcon and Trimble.
For Carlson products that run with IntellliCAD and/or your separately purchased license of AutoCAD, Carlson offers users an Annual Maintenance program that keeps the software up to date. The purchase of Maintenance is optional and pricing is calculated at 10% of the retail price of the product per year.
Carlson Software offers free technical support from their main office to all Carlson Software users regardless of customer or license status.
Although users may find it difficult to install older Carlson desktop software on newer machines due to limitations of newer Windows operating systems, Carlson continues offering support for those versions.
Comparable to industry-standard engineering design software, Carlson Civil provides features for layer-based quantity takeoffs, 3D modeling, and construction estimating, including specialized commands like SiteNet for streamlined volume and material quantity calculations.
In addition to the functionality of the CAD-platform it’s running on top of and the identical commands available in the first 7 menus of all Carlson Desktop Software, Carlson Civil offers dynamic design and plan production for site, subdivision and roadway design engineers.
The commands and features in Carlson Civil are comparable to the engineering design components of programs such as: DCA/Softdesk/Land Desktop (retired), AutoCAD Map, Civil 3D, Eagle Point (retired), TerraModel (retired), GeoPak and InRoads.
Carlson Civil also provides users with the tools needed for layer-based quantity takeoffs and model building in the 3D Data and SiteNet menus. The commands in SiteNet are comparable to construction estimating software such as Paydirt, Quest and Agtek.
With Carlson Civil, users are able to:
- import and export data files for Civil 3d, Land Desktop, LandXML, Trimble, Topcon, Google Earth and more
- create and manage points in the drawing or in the CRD file editor
- use a variety of specialized commands to convert 2D linework to 3D using points, text with leaders, surface files, drawing entities and more
- use SiteNet, a layer-based feature that simplifies the process of estimating dirt and topsoil volumes and quantities of other materials such as subgrade volumes, length of curb and number of trees or other structures to be built or demolished
- create and manage surface model triangulation files from field data or importing from Google Earth or other sources
- view and perform quality checks on surface model files in various 3d viewers including a 3D Fly By
- calculate earthwork volumes for pads, stockpiles or between two surfaces and calculate adjustments required to balance cut and fill
- create cut/fill labels and color maps
- create and manage horizontal alignments
- create and manage profiles of ground elevations, roadways, sewer pipes and crossings
- design ditches and trenches
- calculate and report quantities and depths of pipe installation projects
- create and manage cross-sections
- dynamically design a network of roads with intersections and cul-de-sacs that automatically adjust and provide dynamic, real-time cut and fill volumes
- design and map single parcel boundaries or networks of subdivision lots that dynamically adjust to accommodate building footprint and setback restrictions.
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FAQs: Installation and Technical Support
All Carlson Software purchases will be fulfilled electronically by a download link that will be emailed to you (along with your new serial number) within two business days of your order being processed. The download link and serial number can be used to install and register your software immediately.
For delivery to addresses within the United States, we can also ship you a flash drive via UPS Ground for an additional charge. Please note that the physical shipment DOES NOT include manuals.
Your box shipment will arrive approximately 14 business days after your order has been processed. Be aware that software purchases outside the United States will be fulfilled by download only. If you pay the extra charge for the physical shipment we will only provide a download link and will then refund the shipping charge.
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