Overview
TurboCAD Pro 16 is the premium design software solution that’s delivered exceptional value to both 2D and 3D users for over twenty years. It’s complete 2D drafting and 3D surface and solid modeling toolset includes many of the most advanced technologies in the industry—ACIS® solid modeling, D-Cubed constraints, and Lightworks® photorealistic rendering. Expert tools for architectural and mechanical design offer greater productivity and enhanced workflow, as does interoperability with nearly 40 CAD and graphic formats.
Perfect For
Architects, Engineers, Hobbyists, Contractors, Builders, Designers, Illustrators, Students, Educators, Graphics Designers
Drafting & Detailing
TurboCAD’s complete set of drawing, editing, and modification tools, along with annotation tools, help you quickly draft and document your designs with outstanding flexibility. What-if analysis is made easy with constraints and is a tremendous time saver for testing variations on your designs. Constrained models, when used in conjunction with the Drafting Palette, can dynamically accelerate all levels of the design and detailing process.
Modeling & Rendering
TurboCAD Pro offers the benefits of modeling with both Surfaces and (ACIS®) Solids allowing for optimal flexibility in design. When coupled with LightWorks® Photorealistic Rendering you’re sure to impress clients and associates with your dramatic presentations.
Expert Tools
TurboCAD Pro offers toolsets for design tasks common to architectural design, mechanical design, and woodworking, allowing for enhanced productivity in these domains. Expanded versions of these toolsets, as well as a CAM plug-in, are sold separately to further assist experts in these fields.
Complete File Compatibility and Interoperability
TurboCAD Pro has always offered excellent file compatibility. Nearly 40 industry standard CAD and graphic formats are supported, including native AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT files (DXF/DWG), now with the ability to export XREFs. Google SketchUp support has also been greatly enhanced, and export to SketchUp (.SKP) file format has been added. A new Database Connect Palette has also been added allowing TurboCAD Pro users to set up a data link to any data source.
Key Features
Complete set of Drawing, Editing and Modification Tools
Advanced Drawing Tools
TurboCAD includes over 40 line, arc, curve and spline tools and over 50 Editing and Modification tools; so that no matter the situation you’ve got the right tool for the job. When used with TurboCAD’s snaps, SEKE’s (Single Entry Key commands), dimensions and drawing aids you’ll be able to quickly draft and document your designs with outstanding flexibility.
Constraints
What-if analysis is made easy with 2D geometric and dimensional constraints and is a tremendous time saver as you iterate designs. Apply relationships between two or more objects for accurate designs which can then be adjusted easily. Make a change to one object in a design, and constraints automatically update the drawing based on the user defined parameters. When used in conjunction with TurboCAD’s linear and radial copy tools, constraints allow you to instantly modify entire sets of patterned objects commonly used in mechanical design. Additional constraint options are included in the TurboCAD Pro Mechanical and Platinum Editions.
Select Copy & Editing Tools
TurboCAD comes equipped with tools to allow you to quickly select objects by type, color, entity type, attribute, query, fence or by layer. Coupled with TurboCAD's array & copy tools, you’ll save copious amounts of time editing your design. Handled based editing significantly increases your ability to quickly move, rotate and accurately place any object(s).
Annotation Tools
Dimensioning and Text are vital to any CAD Drawing. TurboCAD includes:
Smart, Quick and Baseline which allow you to dimension automatically.
Associative Dimensions - freely move, rotate, or resize the associated objects and the dimension will retain its position relative to the objects, and the dimension text will change automatically to reflect changes.
Precise Dimensioning up to 10 decimal points.
Formats include: Architectural, Fractional, Engineering, Decimal, and Surveyor.
Multi-Text Formatting and Scaling options.
Format Painter lets you instantly grab and associate any desired format attributes between objects.
Parametric Parts, Blocks & Symbols
Easily create reusable parametrically driven objects, then drag and drop them into your designs, thereby accelerating all levels of design and detailing.. Advanced users can also script their own parametrically driven objects. Part and Symbol Library palettes allow for easier management of your CAD content.
Block Attributes
A block attribute is dynamic AutoCAD®-style informational text associated with a block that you can enter whenever you create or insert a block. TurboCAD reads, displays, and allows you to modify block attributes obtained from any AutoCAD drawing (DWG) and DXF files.
NEW XREF Manager
NEW XREF Manager is built in to the Block Palette, managing external references in your TurboCAD drawing more effectively. XREFs can also be exported with DWG or DXF drawings for greater AutoCAD® file compatibility.
Hatches Patterns and Line Styles
Apply hatch patterns by object or pick-points to add the finishing touches to your production drawings. Create your own Hatch vector and raster based hatch patterns and gradient fills with the Brush Styles Editor.
Surface & Solid Modeling
ACIS® Solid Modeling Engine (IMPROVED)
TurboCAD ACIS Solid Modeling Engine, updated to version 18, provides realistic, complex 3D object creation as well as data crucial for engineers such as Volume, Moments of inertia, Center of gravity and Surface Area through the . Some of the ACIS editing tools are:
Rail, Sweep and Revolve
Facet and Edge Modifiers
Extrusions and Lofts of Compound Profiles
Face to Face and Branch Lofting
Section and Slice
Profile Editing
3D objects that are created by performing a function on a 2D profile can be modified to update the 3D object that is based on it.
Assembly Tools
Easily combine multiple components together to create one part.
Part Tree
Go back to any procedural step in your design and make modifications without losing any subsequent work.
Lighting & Rendering
LightWorks® (Improved)
Add lighting and luminance to your entire environment and apply bitmap materials to any 3D face for dramatic realism. TurboCAD now includes the Lightworks 7.9 lighting and rendering engine. This major upgrade of the underlying render engine provides global illumination, final gather, tone mapping, gamma correction, and dozens of new material shaders.
Add ambient, point, directional, headlight, spot and sky light types to your design
Apply luminance properties to any object to create stunning renderings.
Choose from over 500 included materials, including over 140 eco-friendly materials like brick, marble, wood and stone.
Access hundreds of brand name and custom colors, effects and materials through the LightWorks® Archive
Create your own materials with the materials editor
Add your own notes and descriptions to your Lightworks Elements
New in v16 - Simply drag and drop materials from the Material Palette onto a 3D object's face
New in v16 - Material preview allows you to see any selected item with the material and change preview scales.
New in v16 - Benefit from advanced shader descriptions.
Render Styles and Style Editor (NEW)
TurboCAD Pro now includes preset Render Styles that optimize dozens of settings for specific effects, photorealistic or non-photorealistic (such as oil painting and mosaic). The Render Style Editor allows for unlimited new styles to be created for one-click access to a particular style from project to project.
Publishing, Productivity and Reports
Drafting Palette (IMPROVED)
TurboCAD Pro’s Drafting Palette is exceptionally powerful and unique and expedites the drafting-to-detailing process. It creates associative 2D sections based on standard views or sectional planes of 3D surface or ACIS® solid models, including XREFs. You can even create nested, associative sections (i.e., cross-sections of cross-sections). The 2D views may be placed in paper spaces (layouts), hatched, dimensioned, and annotated. Because they are associative, if the model is changed, or the section plane is updated, the 2D profiles, hatches, and fills are also updated automatically.
Dynamic Viewports
Viewports have two components: a boundary and the view that it contains. Any update of the view is instantly applied to the viewport. Viewports can be independently scaled and displayed in hidden line draft and quality rendered modes.
Desktop Customization
TurboCAD’s desktop interface is completely customizable. Add command to any toolbar. Pop-up toolbars let you assign your most used tools to the local menu (right-mouse click), saving you from spending time navigating endlessly to use a tool.
Context Sensitive Help
Click any tool or menu item to instantly pull up the help description.
Database, Reports, Tables (IMPROVED)
Now Connect to any ODBC supported database. Define custom field reports, bill of materials and parts lists. XREF support allows your tables and part lists to automatically sync with external data sources for added efficiency. Table Objects that are AutoCAD® compatible.
Architectural Tools
Intelligent Roofs
Intelligent roofs let you alter the pitch, add skylights, move items, change materials and self heal after a move.
Terrain
Place your design on a hillside or uneven terrain. Create terrains from scratch by importing Triangular Irregular Network (TIN) data from standard file formats. Even create terrain objects from selected points.
Walls
Walls automatically create openings for parametric doors and windows. TurboCAD also offers a host of supporting tools for walls.
Wall Dimension tool – Quickly assign dimensions to any straight wall, including dimension thickness. Place dimensions in parallel or at any angle from the wall.
Join/Split/Modify/Dimension Walls – Intelligent walls automatically join, intersect, and split when placing a door or window and even update dimensions automatically after you edit them.
Intelligent Walls – Self-healing intersection and ends help quickly layout floor plans.
Convert to wall – convert existing lines, polylines, circles and curves into walls.
Parametric Doors, Windows, and Stairs
Instantly create and modify doors and windows, and stairs. Specify types and shape, select material, adjust dimensions, and more. Find more options with the TurboCAD Pro Architectural Edition and the TurboCAD Pro Platinum Edition.
Door Type – Single and Double-hung
Door Shapes – Rectangular and Custom
Stair Types - Straight
Window Type – Picture and Awning Transom
Window Shapes - Rectangular
Parametric Doors, Windows, and Stairs
Instantly create and modify doors and windows, and stairs. Specify types and shape, select material, adjust dimensions, and more. Find more options with the TurboCAD Pro Architectural Edition and the TurboCAD Pro Platinum Edition.
Door Type – Single and Double-hung
Door Shapes – Rectangular and Custom
Stair Types - Straight
Window Type – Picture and Awning Transom
Window Shapes - Rectangular
Outstanding Compatibility
TurboCAD Pro supports nearly 40 popular CAD and Graphic File Formats.
Database Connect Palette (NEW)
Now, set up a data link to any data source (ODBC database, Excel, CSV, SQL, Access, Oracle, Sequel Server…) on either your local machine or company network. Since the data source remains outside of TurboCAD, the drawing file size is not affected maintaining performance. Reference data in a TurboCAD table as well as data associated to objects. The CAD file automatically updates with changes to the external database. Improves bill of material handling, real time pricing…
DWG/DXF Import/Export (IMPROVED)
TurboCAD has always offered excellent compatibility with native AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT files, making it an excellent companion product. A new ability to export XREFs with DWG or DXF drawings offers even greater AutoCAD file compatibility.
Google SketchUp File Import/Export (IMPROVED)
The SketchUp (SKP) file import filter has been greatly enhanced in TurboCAD v16. Not only is more information about the SketchUp model now successfully imported into TurboCAD, but supplemental rendering, lighting and materials information is imported if the SketchUp model has been rendered with IMSI/Design's IDX Renditioner product, a plug-in to SketchUp. Now you can also save your TurboCAD models in the native SketchUp (.SKP) file format, allowing you to seamlessly import your designs into Google SketchUp.
ASAT File Import/Export
Store 3D objects and blocks/inserts in ASAT files and enjoy enhanced compatibility for 3D solid modeling.
Collada (DAE) File Export
Experience enhanced operability with virtual worlds and Google™ Earth
OBJ File Import/Export
Obtain OBJ support for polygonal models and free form models such as curves and NURB surfaces.
3DS File Import/Export
Get better interoperability with mechanical and artistic design applications. Supports material, texture coordinate, and normal import/export of 3DS files.
New Features
New & Improved Drafting & Detailing
NEW
XREF Manager
NEW XREF Manager is built into the Block Palette, managing external references in your TurboCAD drawing more effectively. XREFs can also be exported with DWG or DXF drawings for greater AutoCAD® file compatibility.
IMPROVED Blocks
Set a material property for Block Insertions and 'By Block' material for entities, and you can specify different rendering materials for different block instances.
IMPROVED Drafting Palette
Drafting Palette improvements make it exceptionally powerful and unique and expedites the drafting-to-detailing process. It creates associative 2D sections based on standard views or sectional planes of 3D surface or ACIS® solid models, including XREFs. You can even create nested, associative sections (i.e., cross-sections of cross-sections). The 2D views may be placed in paperspaces (layouts), hatched, dimensioned, and annotated. Because they are associative, if the model is changed, or the section plane is updated, the 2D profiles, hatches, and fills are also updated automatically.
NEW Works with Surfaces including architectural drawings
IMPROVED Associatively of Dimensions
IMPROVED Show/Hide Tangency Lines
IMPROVED Bezier Curves
Node editing options improved to include Equal Curvatures at point, Non-equal Curvature at point, Non-smooth at point, offering much better control over curve fitting with nodes handles.
IMPROVED Node Editing
Add selector mode functionality has been added to the local menu so you can easily utilize handled based editing to manipulate one or more selected nodes.
IMPROVED Polygons
Now you can define a polygon by the endpoints of one edge. Handy for stacking polygons against one another.
IMPROVED Dimensioning
Custom Block Arrows are now supported so you can create customized arrowheads for your dimension styles. Also, dimension scaling in Paper Space now matches scale from Model Space to ensure accurate dimensioning of displayed entities in Paper Space Viewports.
IMPROVED Format Painter
Save Entity properties and formats from imported files for re-use in other drawings. The format painter provides the ability to save selected formats as preset property values for any object property type. They can then be accessed from the specific Entity Style drop down menu.
NEW  Filleted Corners
TurboCAD 16 offers the ability to add filleted corners automatically from the local menu streamlining the process of filleting corners when drawing polygons, irregular polygons, rectangles and irregular rectangles.
NEW Font
Hebrew support of Text, Multiline Text and SHX fonts. Now properly annotate drawings with Hebrew text.
3D Modeling Enhancements
IMPROVED ACIS Solid Modeling Engine
The ACIS Solid Modeling Engine from Spatial has been updated to version 18 allowing for a host of new and improved features to TurboCAD Pro.
NEW Quick Pull
This great productivity enhancement for rapid solid modeling 3D objects allows the user to select any enclosed geometry on a 3D face and then press it into or pull it out of the design. You can even specify the draft angle.
NEW Mesh Simplifier Tool
This tool degenerates (simplifies to a specific number of triangles) TurboCAD Surfaces. It’s useful for simplifying large, imported meshes that will subsequently be rendered, as render times will be less.
NEW Helix
New ACIS tool that allows users to quickly draw 2D and 3D spirals
IMPROVED 3D Booleans
Boolean operations use two existing 3D objects to create a new object. Objects can be combined, subtracted, intersected, or sliced. Now TurboCAD offers greater control over combining 3D entities with the ability to select multiple entities for addition or subtraction.
IMPROVED color=blue size=+1>Curve
Now TurboCAD offers the ability to split a 3D Curve into two pieces. It’s handy for extracting extrusion or sweep profiles from part of a larger curve.
IMPROVED Extrude, Revolve, Sweep
New offset property allows for the creation of a body with constant thickness, as offset.
IMPROVED Advanced Offset Tool
Improved to work with ACIS-based objects, offsets are now spline based for curves and ellipses making them more editable. Constrained, compound profiles can also be offset
IMPROVED Measurement
TurboCAD now has the ability to measure the length of 3D Curves as well as the area of ACIS faces
NEW 3D Mouse Support
TurboCAD now works with the Sandio 3D Mouse - www.sandiotech.com. Speed design as you move along and rotate about your drawings X, Y and Z axes without having to also use your keyboard or other on-screen navigational aids. It makes for more efficient drawing and viewing of 3D objects.
Dramatic Lighting & Rendering Enhancements
IMPROVED LightWorks® Rendering
TurboCAD now includes the Lightworks 7.9 lighting and rendering engine. This major upgrade of the underlying render engine provides global illumination, final gather, tone mapping, gamma correction, and dozens of new material shaders! Plus, benefit from advanced shader descriptions.
New Lens Flare
New Global Illumination
New Ambient Occlusion
New Final Gather
NEW Materials to Facet
Now, you can simply drag and drop materials from the Material Palette onto a 3D object's face. This huge productivity improvement allows you to quickly add multiple material finishes to a single object.
IMPROVED Material Scaling
Now there are new methods to accurately scale materials and preview those changes on the fly.
NEW Render Styles and Style Editor
Easily render using pre-defined styles that optimize dozens of settings for specific effects, photorealistic or non-photorealistic. The Render Style Editor allows for unlimited new styles to be created for one-click access to a particular style from project to project.
Improved Compatibility and Interoperability
NEW Database Connect Palette
Now, set up a data link to any data source (ODBC database, Excel, CSV, SQL, Access, Oracle, Sequel Server…) on either your local machine or company network. Since the data source remains outside of TurboCAD, the drawing file size is not affected maintaining performance. Reference data in a TurboCAD table as well as data associated to objects. The CAD file automatically updates with changes to the external database. Improves bill of material handling, real time pricing…
IMPROVED DWG/DXF Import/Export
TurboCAD has always offered excellent compatibility with native AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT files, making it an excellent companion product. A new ability to export XREFs with DWG or DXF drawings offers even greater AutoCAD file compatibility.
IMPROVED Google SketchUp File Support
The SketchUp (SKP) file import filter has been greatly enhanced in TurboCAD v16. Not only is more information about the SketchUp model now successfully imported into TurboCAD, but supplemental rendering, lighting and materials information is imported if the SketchUp model has been rendered with IMSI/Design's IDX Renditioner product, a plug-in to SketchUp.
SKP File Import Enhancements:
Now supports SketchUp version 7 files
Units settings are now imported
Dimension objects are now imported
User may now define the Material for Block Insertions in the model and may define 'By Block' the material for models.
Construction Lines are now imported
Two new Camera properties are now imported - Perspective/Orthographic flag and the View property
Insertion of Custom Materials (3rd-party) is now supported
Horizon Colors from the SketchUp Environment are now imported
Soften and Smooth Edges properties are now imported
Additionally Imported IDX Renditioner properties from SketchUp model:
Material Bumpiness information of SketchUp textures now imported
Renditioner Lights, including Natural Lighting, are now imported as Luminances
Shadow Casting property is now imported
Glow Appearance from Renditioner lamps imported as material
NEW Google SketchUp File Export
Convert your TurboCAD models into native SketchUp (.SKP) files for seamless import into Google SketchUp.
New & Improved Architectural Tools
IMPROVED Doors and Windows
TurboCAD lets you simply drag-and-drop parametric doors and windows into self-healing walls. This operation is made even easier with these enhancements:
Precise placement and editing of windows and doors have been made easier with new vertical alignment properties including Head Height, Sill Height for Windows and Head Height, Threshold Height for Doors.
Editing is now easier with added “Right/Left” and “Inside/Outside” flip options added to Node Editing
Measuring is simpler with “Measure To Property” added.
Object Materials in render property offers more visualization options of these architectural object types
IMPROVED Stairs
Added ability to edit the Stair's height.
System Requirements
In order to run TurboCAD® Pro 16, your system must include the following:
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 (SP3, SP4), XP or Vista
• Pentium IV Processor • 300 MB of free hard disk space depending on accessory applications installed, 64+ MB of swap space
• 512MB RAM (1 GB RAM Recommended)
• DVD-ROM drive
• 3D Graphics accelerator card and 32MB RAM (64MB RAM Recommended)
• Super VGA (1024 x 768) display. • High Color (16 bit) graphics card
The following items are recommended but not required:
• 2+ GHz Processor, 512 MB RAM • 3D Graphics accelerator card • Wheel mouse • Internet connection
• Internet Browser required for Internet registration
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