New Features of TurboCAD Pro 17

What's New in version 17?

Improved speed & productivity.
Fast ROI from immediate productivity gains. Improved tools with better usability, and new GPU-accelerated wireframe renders.

Fast GPU-Accelerated wireframe rendering.

Render up to 60 times faster! The speed increases in wireframe are dramatically better (requires a supported GPU-based graphics card).

Smoother zooming, panning, and orbiting. We've included technology from Redway3D® that provides a GPU-accelerated 2D and wireframe display mode (Redsdk). Your your larger files will pan and scroll smoothly. Zooming in and out is dramatically faster on larger files.

Build bigger models. With the speed increases offered by the GPU-accelerated wireframe mode, TurboCAD Pro 17 now supports working with larger models than previous versions.

Improved tools and better stability.

Many improvements to existing features. We listened to our customers and have focused as much on making existing functionality work better as we did on adding new powerful features.

Easier, and more powerful layer management. Design Director simplifies layer management, and new layer filter support (.DWG compatible) lets you manage large, complex drawings with ease.

Better user experience.

Fewer clicks than before. Double-click on text, or M-text to enter edit mode. Edit blocks and groups in place.

Less setup to do. New and improved templates set tool default values to more commonly used settings. Paper spaces can be copied with all settings from one drawing to another.

Easily create 2D vector drawings from 3D models. Viewports can be exploded creating flat 2D views.

Powerful Tools
Let your creativity flow, and draw what before you could only imagine. Improved mechanical and architectural tools, better parametric tools, and five new solid pattern tools.

Rapidly create parametric patterns from ACIS solids.

(Platinum only.) New possibilities are available with 3D patterns. Five new pattern tools allow for 3D shapes that couldn’t easily be drawn before. These include patterns applied to spheres and cylinders, radial patterns, 3D arrays, or patterns along a curve.

(Platinum only.) Rapidly design mechanical parts with repetitive structures. Arrayed patterns such as ventilation holes, keypad designs, and more can be designed and merged with other objects.

Architectural design that is more robust than ever

(Platinum only.) Create any style of door or window easily. AutoCAD Architecture (ACA) compatible Door and Window Muntins expand your options for parametrically creating the exact object types for your design.

(Platinum only.) Create precise shapes for your walls. Now with both custom top and bottom wall modifiers.

Floor plans design is faster than ever before. The improved wall tool allows definition of intelligent relationships between walls to link or not link, clean or remain separate, in any combination.

New and improved power tools add specificity.

(Platinum only.) Geometric Tolerances enable precision in communication. The completely rewritten tolerances tool provides specific instructions on production tolerances and is .DWG compatible.

Parametric Parts can be easily created. Drawn parts can be made into reusable parametric parts with a more robust part wizard.

Scripted Parametric Parts have more power. Additional commands and mathematical functions allow for more designs to be parametrically created via script.

Better communication with multi-leaders. One callout for multiple parts provides for clear communication.

Greater Interoperability
Better data exchange, and protection of your IP. Improved file filters, new versions, and more capabilities.

New versions let you communicate and collaborate with others

Work with the latest AutoCAD® files. We’ve added support for .DWG 2010 file format so that you can collaborate with people using even the latest Autodesk® software versions.

Better SketchUp™ workflow. Our .SKP import is quite good, the export has been improved, and now we have added COLLADA (.DAE) export support, and include instances so that blocks and architectural objects will be read by SketchUp as components. So now you can use TurboCAD as a great way to translate dozens of file formats, including .DWG with ACA extensions, and get them into SketchUp.

Powerful ways to integrate your designs.

More powerful Xrefs. We’ve added Xref clipping for dozens of file formats. We’ve also allowed binding of Xrefs, which can then be exploded and edited. Xref layers are easier to manage, even with layer filters.

Keep the intelligence of SketchUp Dynamic Components. We’ve included a development feature that is still in Beta mode: a .SKP import option (off by default) that will convert some dynamic components into TurboCAD Parametric Parts.

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