Surveying

Regardless whether you’re measuring a network, logging the existing conditions, setting out, working on cadastral or monitoring surveys, using a total station, GNSS or a laser scanner - card_1 helps you manage your surveying-related tasks in either the field or the office quickly and reliably.

From surveys taken in the field to the finished designs ready for submission, card_1 ensures effective project work as a high-performance CAD/BIM complete solution for surveying, planning and execution in civil engineering.

Take advantage of card_1’s unique, easy-to-use features, such data gathered in the field ready-to-go once back in the office. Support is available for geodetic calculations through interactive survey sketches. This makes it easy to identify and eliminate incorrect measurements, meaning you always have an overview, even when evaluating in batches.

card_1 supports all point cloud formats from well-known manufacturers and is a leader in the use of laser scanner data in civil engineering. Using tried-and-tested evaluation methods, you can generate terrain models, cross-sections or track geometries for the railways directly from point clouds.

card_1 combines all surveying-related calculation methods. The network and logged points can be determined using the graphically interactive position/height network adjustment, traverses or the free stationing method. Height connections can be calculated tacheometrically or as engineering levelling. You can make use of automated evaluation methods when logging the existing conditions. Line connections and symbols are automatically generated at the click of the mouse. Ready-to-submit designs are created just as easily. Specialist symbol and line libraries (e.g. RAS-VERM) are taken into account.

Do you also work with a graphic fieldbook? card_1 lets you take the entire project data out into the field! You can immediately check your observations within the context of the base map data (cadastre, orthophotos, previous surveys). When setting-out, the original planning data is also available. The integration of modern interfaces makes it possible to connect to modern tacheometers and GNSS receivers such as Trimble and Leica via the Graphic Fieldbook module. For a combined survey, both measurement methods can be used simultaneously (Integrated Surveying), in cases where connection points are missing, for instance. In the field, surveys can be checked directly in the context of the base map data (cadastre, orthophotos, previous loggings). The original planning data is also available when setting out.

The most important features at a glance:

  • Project launch assistant provides coordinate system and background map (TopPlusOpen) based on the project region
  • Integrated surveying with the Graphic Fieldbook module (total station, GNSS)
  • Management, evaluation and visualisation of laser scan data (point clouds) in various formats: (E57, LAS/LAZ, PTS, XYZ)
  • Hybrid data processing by storing orthophotos etc. and integrating them as a background map
  • Data exchange with all common third-party systems, data interfaces for ALKIS, WMS/WFS, Shapefile, DXF/DWG, DGN, OSM, CityGML etc.
  • Transformations between coordinate systems Gauss-Krueger and ETRS89/UTM, Helmert, Affine (among others) with residual error distribution, transformation between DB_REF and traffic infrastructure systems (VA)
  • User-definable formats to import and export points
  • Clearly structured evaluations of the measurements in interactive survey sketches
  • Standard methods of levelling, network adjustment (DB AG certified), including dynamic network adjustment, traverses, stationing, radial surveys
  • Geodetic constructions with reports
  • In-depth analysis of the measurement data by the system
  • Country-specific error limits and error formulae are taken into account
  • User-designed result reports including sample solutions
  • Interactive graphic editing of area calculations based on official methods
  • Automatically generate base map data from surveys (Base Map Generator module)
  • Surveys of the existing conditions that comply with regulations (RAS-VERM, base map for planning permission)
  • Digital terrain models with contours - break lines are correctly taken into account

card_1 has been successfully used for 39 years in surveying, planning and engineering offices, state authorities, municipalities, universities and construction companies for national and international projects.