Advanced 2D/3D Drafting, Surface, Solid Modelling and Rendering.
TurboCAD Professional provides an advanced platform for 2D and 3D design, drafting and modelling suitable for all aspects of CAD design and has a client list going back thirty years.
It is used in a wide variety of professions, not only architects, our customers include Sir Robert McAlpine and Taylor Wimpy, but engineers from home workshops to companies that worked on the design of the latest Airbus.
A significant number of TurboCAD users are in the interior design profession. Everyone from carpenters to roofers use TurboCAD to plan their projects. Forward planning saves time and waste and gives you the edge over competitors. Once a kitchen is drawn in 3D, different materials can be applied to surfaces with the click of a mouse. It can be viewed in isometric, perspective, plan form, all as a line drawing or as a fully photorealistic image.
Thousands of engineering companies use TurboCAD from locksmiths, fence and gate manufacturers, wrought iron specialists, assembling plants, injection moulding companies, sheet metal works, just about anyone needing to design an object that needs to be formed or made.
Garden designers and builders planning extensions can photograph the existing site with their mobile phone, import the picture into TurboCAD and place their proposed new design on the original, this takes seconds.
Recommended by the British Horological Institute for their members. Licensed by the Institute of Carpenters.
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TurboCAD’s three main strengths are:
- Easy to learn & use. TurboCAD does not take weeks to learn and the basics can be picked up very quickly even by less experienced CAD users. If you do need help, there are ample training materials available as well as Training days held by experienced CAD trainers. Technical support by e-mail and telephone is free and unlimited, with no yearly charges.
- Compatibility. TurboCAD reads and saves in all the main file formats, including DWG, DXF, STEP, STL and saves as PDF, making sharing drawings with others using a different CAD program simple. Emailing designs to
a client who does not have a CAD package as an e-mail attachment is easy. It also has two way compatibility with Google SketchUp, enabling your designs to be placed anywhere in the world via Google Earth. - Affordable. It is at an affordable price making it a realistic tool for anyone needing to plan and visualise 3D designs – anything from kitchen and bathroom design, landscaping, children’s play areas, stage sets,), security devices such as locks, factory layouts etc.
TurboCAD contains features normally only found in CAD solutions costing thousands of pounds more. It utilises advanced industry-standard technology including ACIS® v20 modelling engine, LightWorks® and Redway3D® rendering engines and D-Cubed 2D Constraints Manager from Siemens PLM, with advanced pattern constraints and new parametric tools and symbols.
TurboCAD Professional Feature Comparison
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| Feature | Description | TurboCAD Pro 18 | TurboCAD Pro Platinum 18 |
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| Customisable user interface and preferences |  |
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| Advanced Handle based editing | Click on a portion of a drawing and size, scale, rotate or move with the mouse | |
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| Drawing Performance | Includes RedWay3D drawing engine | |
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| Layer Filters | Layer filters organise layers by a defined set of parameters | |
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| Software Developers Kit | Extend application functionality developing new tools, functions, behaviours etc | |
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| Drafting & Editing | |||
| Auto Tools | For scaling, sizing, positioning, rotating and movement | |
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| Bezier Curves | To model smooth curves that can be scaled indefinitely | |
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| CTB Print Style Support | CTB files contain mappings of colours to the display objects which allow objects to be rendered using the correct colours | |
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| Index Colour Support | Corresponds to the 255 Colour Index used in AutoCAD products | |
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| XClip Support | To set clipping boundaries for Xrefs [External References] and blocks | |
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| Advanced Part Tree | Most 3D primitives and the Pro 3D design and modification Tools may be driven by the Advanced Part Tree | - | |
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| Photo-realistic Rendering and Materials | |
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| 3D Modeling and Editing | Full 3D modeling utilising the ACIS v20 solid-modeling engine | |
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| 3D Terrain Modeling | Creates a topographical terrain, represented by triangulated network | |
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| 3D Shelling Lofting and Surfaces | |
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| History Tree with Editor | Edit properties and parameters of 3D objects, taking into account the order in which the objects were created. | - | |
| 3D Solid Pattern Tools | Eeasier creation of 3D shapes including patterns applied to spheres and cylinders, radial patterns, patterns along a curve and 3D arrays | - | |
| History enabled editing of ACIS objects | Edit properties and parameters of 3D objects, taking into account the order in which the objects were created. | - | |
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| Walls | Self healing, straight, curved, block insert | |
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| Multi-Component Walls | Walls are composed of components with each component representing a part of the walls geometry | |
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| Schedule Tool and Wizard | Creates a table in your file detailing all selected walls, windows, doors, and/or slabs | |
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| Architectural Sections and Elevations | 3D to 2D documentation | |
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| Style Manager | The Style Manager enables you to define styles for commonly-used objects | |
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| Parametric Rails and Slabs | Parametric Slabs can be automatically generated from walls in a variety of shapes & sizes with holes added to accommodate columns, stair wells or lift shafts.
Parametric Rails can be added to the either side of stairs or affixed to balconies and fences with a single click |
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| Door & Window Muntins | 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. | - | |
| Wall Modifiers | Create precise shapes for your walls. Now with both custom top and bottom wall modifiers. | - | |
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| Gear contour tool | Creates outline for a toothed gear (defining angle, teeth, pitch) | |
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| 2D Geometric and Dimension Constraints | Modify designs using geometric and dimensional constraints | |
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| Additional Advanced Design and Modification Tools | Advanced tools for Solid and Surface modeling | |
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| 3D Pattern Copy Tools | Five new pattern tools allow for 3D shapes that couldn’t easily be drawn before | - | |
| Geometric Tolerance Tool | Provides instruction on production tolerances (DWG compatible) | - | |
| Enhanced Constraints | Midpoint Constraint and Pattern Constraints to allow parametrically defined arrays of drawn objects.
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. |
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| AutoCAD File Compatibility | .DWG, .DXF, .DWF | |
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| Import and Open file formats | 40 | 40 | |
| Export, Save As and Publish file formats | 31 | 31 | |
| Enhanced Google SketchUp [SKP] | Geometry, views, materials, components | |
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| Open/Save mechanical drawings | Rhino [3DM], IGS, OBJ, SAT, STL, STP | |
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| File Conversion Tool with Batch Tool Conversion | |
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| Terrain Data [XYZ] Support | Creates a topographical terrain, represented by a triangulated network,from scratch, or import coordinates from a file | |
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* features only available in TurboCAD Professional Platinum