Power, precision and performance are the hallmarks of TurboCAD Professional v12. With integrated 2D drafting, 3D surface and solid modeling, and photorealistic rendering, TurboCAD delivers unparalleled design productivity and dramatic visual results. With TurboCAD® Pro v12 your options are unlimited. With over 250 professional level 2D/3D design and drafting tools, you can quickly create measurement precise home plans, technical drawings, solid models, artistic illustrations, crafts, and more.
Getting Started
Breeze through a series of questions designed to create the most optimal drawing space for your needs using the Setup Wizard. Define your drawing size and orientation, units of measurements, printing scale, and view points.
Simplified User Interface
Display only the tools you want and need, and free up your screen space by 15%. Add, rearrange and move buttons you frequently use, and remove buttons you don't use. You can even display buttons with full explanations until you become familiar with the program.
New Context Sensitive Tools
TurboCAD’s one of a kind, context sensitive tools eliminate unnecessary prompts and steps by making intelligent assumptions about the users desired outcomes.
New Brush Style
TurboCAD offers you a brush style editor for Bitmap, Gradient Fills and now new Reflected Brush.
Improved Text Editing
Offering
a newly simplified approach, TurboCAD’s text editing tools now mirror those found in other graphic applications. Simply select the text box you want to edit and the text editing palette is automatically called up.
New 2D & 3D Text Editing
Create and edit 2D & 3D textural information without leaving your drawing. Plus, choose from thousands of colors for text and background.
New Point Marker Tool
Automatically number objects such as rooms, doors or windows and is great for creating legends, call outs, or simply mapping points and adding notes to your drawings
New Fractional Dimensions
Three options for displaying fractional dimensions (stacked, diagonal, in-line)
Viewports
Rotate, zoom, and edit small specific areas of your drawing (2D or 3D) through standard or custom shaped viewports.
Snaps
Draw lines quickly and let snap tools automatically aligning them with the closest center point, end point or dozens of points you choose.
Advanced Lighting Effects
Choose from ambient, point, directional, spot, or sky light to create your specific effect! Plus, define the softness and fall-off settings of your shadows.
Advanced Rendering
Enjoy fast previews and rotating of your rendered object, plus choose a specific render mode depending on your need.
Wireframe (displays all lines including lines that would normall be obstructed)
Hidden Line (renders only lines that would normally be visible)
Draft Render (quick preview)
High Quality Mode (find quality mode for finished publishing)
Extrudes and Sweeps
Create complex 3D models by simply extruding (pulling) them from simple 2D shapes. Or use Sweeps to extrude complex shapes along a path that you define. Perfect for drafting irregular objects such as pipes that must be routed around other objects.
Complete PDF Support
The redesigned PDF file export features now let you export paper spaces, customize PDF fonts, TrueType®, SHX, paper widths, and paper heights sections.
Import and Export Files
With TurboCAD's commitment to interoperability, sharing your files with others and among other programs is never an issue. Always utilizing the latest copy of the Open Drawing Alliance library, TurboCAD supports 28 of the most popular industry-standard file formats, including AutoCAD's DWG and DXF, DesignCAD's DCD, MicroStation DGN, 3DS, IGES, STEP and STL. A newly added feature even supports the export of 3D files into DWF format. Or, users can publish designs into HTML, JPG and now newly supported PNG and GIF file formats with included Alpha Channel for transparencies.
TurboCAD is fully compatible with all these programs and file formats:
3DS - 3D Studio
BMP - Windows Bitmap
DGN - Intergraph, Microsation
DWF - AutoDesk® Drawing Web Format
DWG - AutoCAD Native Format
DXF - Drawing Exchange
GIF - Graphics Interchange
JPG - JPEG
PLT - Hewlett Packard Graphics Language
PNG - Portable Network Graphics
TCW - TurboCAD Native Format
WMF - Windows Metalife
WRL - VRML Worlds
WRZ - VRML Worlds
New Images on Transparencies Export your drawings into GIF or PNG file formats with transparent backgrounds. Easily place your finished object into another image or another background, without having to crop the object out of its original background.
Versatile enough for hobbies and crafts too!
Designed for precision but simple enough for anyone, TurboCAD can help you with your hobbies and crafts too. TurboCAD's tools are versatile enough to tackle even the most intricate and detailed ideas. Use it for:
Woodworking
Jewelry
Quilting Patterns and Pattern Designs
Stained Glass
Deck Plans
Toy Models
Garden Planning
Doll Houses
Superior Artistic Design and Presentation
Access countless brush styles with TurboCAD's proprietary Brush Style Editor and embed photos and other graphic elements directly into your designs. Utilize Gradient Fills to fade from light to dark along radial, linear, diamond or custom paths, or take advantage of color transparencies to screen objects in the foreground to emphasize objects in the background. Plus choose custom density levels for scattering mediums, go even further with all new Decal Reflectance filters, and enjoy all these additional image creation tools:
New LightWorks 7.5 with LightWorks Archives
Extensive options for hidden-line rendering
Click-and-apply palettes
Color selection and creation tools
Work in 2D or 3D without leaving Rendered mode
Raytrace, radiosity, and Open GL rendering
2D and 3D raster-image manipulation
Customizable luminance and environments
Customizable materials, textures, and reflections
Hidden-line isometrics and perspectives
D-Cubed Geometric and Dimensional Constraint Manager  Easily create and manage design dependencies plus, import and quickly convert existing 2D TurboCAD and AutoCAD designs into fully constrained drawings. Now with more than 15 constraints for 2D lines, arcs, circles, splines and dimensions, you can now quickly and easily locate and delete existing constraints with the constraints palette. You can even generate spline tangents with just one click and TurboCAD automatically calculates the precise spline connection points.
New Constraints Property Pallettes
New Horizonal Constraints
New Vertical Constraints
New Constraints of Objects in Parallel Planes
New DCM Spline Support
ACIS Version 15 Solid Modeling Engine
Fast and accurate creation of 3D models is a snap, with Spatial's ACIS v15 solid modeling engine. Create complex 3D shapes from simple 2D profiles using TurboCAD's Extrude and Sweep features. And, 3D editing is made even easier with TurboCAD's 3D slice, intersect and Boolean editing tools. Quickly and easily create complex organic shapes using NURBS and other deformable modeling tools, and easily create a solid from a surface or vice versa.
Advanced Mechanical Design
Create 2D layouts of 3D parts and models in seconds, with a powerful drafting palette. Build layouts with multiple projections, complex sectional views, and even derivative sectional views, with just a few clicks. TurboCAD Professional delivers powerful solid and surface modeling with extreme versatility. Plus, mechanical drafting is even easier with these advancements:
ACIS 15 Solid Modeling Engine
Powerful Part Tree
NURBS-based objects including deformable modeling
Create solids from surfaces and surfaces from solids
Axis scaling of all ACIS objects
Powerful Drafting palette
STEP import/export filter
Industry-standard IGES filter
Facet editing of ACIS 3D objects and surfaces
Complex extrusions and imprints
Intricate revolutions and spirals
Complete 2D/3D Boolean operations
3D shelling, lofting, and blending
Surface modeling and meshes
Order our Mechanical Pack for even more mechanical design power
Intelligent Architectural Design
Design in 2D and 3D simultaneously, with TurboCAD's intuitive architectural tools. Create parametric doors and windows, drag and drop them directly into the walls of your 3D drawing. Define the exact parameters of these objects and more.
New Parametric Walls, Windows, & Doors
New Point Marker Tool
Wall-direction indicators enhance materials selection and block insertion
Convert lines, polylines, circles and curves into walls
Roof editing, dimensioning and transform tools
Self-healing 2D and 3D walls
Parametric symbols and blocks
Sections and cross sections
Rendered walk-throughs
Schedules and bills of materials
Order our Architectural Pack for even more drafting & design power
PDF features
TurboCAD's PDF file export features let users export paper spaces, customize PDF fonts, TrueType, SHX, paper widths, and paper heights sections.
Programmability TurboCAD Professional even includes a complete software development kit (SDK) now with XML-based definitions.
Integrated ScanPro Raster-to-Vector Converter
Automatically convert 'scanned-in' data into the most important CAD formats of the day. Using a process called Raster-to-Vector conversion ScanPro transforms your line art scans, drawings, and cocktail napkin sketches into workable CAD drawings.
And there is more
Full of industry's leading tools and options not found even in higher priced software, TurboCAD is the number one selling brand name under $1000. With significantly advanced parametric modeling, superior artistic and visual presentation options, time saving drafting tools, intuitive user interface, and the most cross-compatible file publishing options on the market, TurboCAD Professional is the tool that CAD professionals worldwide have turned to for significant productivity and dramatic results.
System Requirements
Minimum
Pentium III class PC or higher
128+ MB RAM
55 to 260 MB of free hard disk space depending on accessory applications installed
64+ MB of swap space
SuperVGA (1024x768) display
High Color (16bit) graphics card
4X CD-ROM Drive
Mouse
Windows 2000/XP Home Edition/XP Pro, Vista
Vista compatible through free publisher download
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