Carlson Civil vs. Plex-Earth
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | Carlson Civil | Plex-Earth |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.3 | 4.6 |
| Review count | 22 | 20 |
| Ease of use | 9.1 | 9.1 |
| Ease of setup | 9.0 | 9.6 |
| Quality of support | 8.8 | 9.8 |
| Meets requirements | 8.9 | 9.5 |
| NPS | 63.636364 | 80 |
| Small Business | 31.8% | 50.0% |
| Mid-Market | 40.9% | 30.0% |
| Enterprise | 27.3% | 20.0% |
| Total page views | 75 | 265 |
| Total LLM citations | 112 | 619 |
Carlson Civil
Carlson Civil 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. What might take days with other civil software takes just hours, or even minutes, with the powerful, intuitive Carlson Civil: • Road NETwork. Build all roads, intersections and cul-de-sacs in 2D and 3D with a single click of the “PROCESS” button. • Site NETwork. Elevate your estimating accuracy with this intuitive layer-based surface generator for easy cut/fill and material quantities calculations. • Lot NETwork.
Plex-Earth
Plex-Earth is your geospatial go-to tool in CAD. Satellite and aerial imagery, years of historical archives, and 3D terrain, all inside your drawing. Built for AEC teams across civil engineering, solar, wind, telecom, oil & gas, and utilities, it integrates into AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Map 3D, and BricsCAD. Choose from basemaps including Google Maps, Azure Maps, and OpenStreetMap for general reference, or bring in premium imagery from Nearmap, Vexcel, Hexagon, Airbus, and Vantor when the project demands higher resolution and defensible source data.