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TurboCAD® Mac Copilot: The Ultimate AI-Powered Design Partner

Unlock the full potential of your design process with Copilot, the AI-driven companion seamlessly integrated into TurboCAD® Mac. This integrated AI tool streamlines navigation, expedites your project's progress, and enhances your design endeavors with insightful analysis. Copilot supports two levels: TurboCAD® Mac Copilot Help and TurboCAD® Mac Copilot Professional.

TurboCAD® Mac Copilot Professional includes Talk to your CAD Data, general AI access, and Text to Image.  TurboCAD® Mac Copilot Professional is adept at handling diverse multilingual requests, from guiding you through the initial steps of using TurboCAD® Mac to sharing intriguing details about your file or providing insights on design trends and principles.

TurboCAD® Mac Copilot is your go-to assistant for a multitude of tasks:

  • Instant Answers: Get precise, on-the-spot answers to your TurboCAD® Mac queries, enabling you to focus on what you do best—designing.
  • Data Insight: Dive deep into your CAD data with TurboCAD® Mac Copilot’s analytical prowess, extracting valuable insights to inform your design decisions.
  • AI Expertise: Benefit from an extensive AI knowledge base that not only understands your general questions but provides contextually relevant solutions.

With TurboCAD® Mac Copilot, you’re not just working smarter; you’re transforming the way you interact with your CAD software—effortlessly and efficiently.

* TurboCAD® Mac Copilot AI Help is included in all variants as a free 1-Year-Subscription, TurboCAD® Mac Copilot Professional is available as 1-Year-Subscription

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Tool Help Within TurboCAD<sup>®</sup> Mac Copilot

Tool Help Within TurboCAD® Mac Copilot

TurboCAD® Mac has taken a significant step forward by integrating its tool help content directly within TurboCAD® Mac Copilot. This integration means that users have immediate access to a wealth of information, including text descriptions, visual aids through images, and, for some topics, even video links. This feature is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the tools and their applications, making it easier for users to learn and apply the functionalities of TurboCAD® Mac effectively. The inclusion of multimedia resources within TurboCAD® Mac Copilot ensures that users can quickly grasp complex concepts, enhancing the overall user experience and proficiency with the software. 

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Layer Sets

Layer Sets

Enhance your TurboCAD® Mac experience with the Layer Sets feature, a powerful tool designed to optimize your design space. Layer Sets enable you to effortlessly save and manage your layers, view orientations, and zoom levels, ensuring a seamless transition between different phases of your project.

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Fastener Library

Fastener Library

Enhance your TurboCAD® Mac designs with the ANSI Fastener Library, a comprehensive collection of nuts, bolts, and washers. Now easily accessible within the Symbol tab in the Concept Explorer, this library simplifies the insertion of fastening components into your projects.

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Blend Version

Blend Version

TurboCAD® Mac now offers the flexibility to revert the ACIS blend version to a previous setting, providing an alternative solution when the default blend doesn’t meet your needs.

This updated feature ensures that you have more control over your design process, allowing for precision and customization in your blending operations.

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Convert Text to Surface

Convert Text to Surface

The change object type tool now supports converting text to ACIS surface faces.

This feature is a testament to our commitment to providing versatile and powerful tools for designers to express their creativity without limitations.

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Symbol Manager Preview Sizes

Symbol Manager Preview Sizes

Elevate your design process with the versatile Symbol Manager in TurboCAD® Mac’s Concept Explorer. Now featuring three distinct preview size options, you can customize how you view and select symbols with ease.

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Symbol Manager Names

Symbol Manager Names

Optimize your design workflow with the updated Symbol Manager Names feature in TurboCAD® Mac. This enhancement allows you to toggle the display of symbol names for a more personalized and organized workspace.

Selection of Co-Planar Faces: Select Faces Same Plane

Selection of Co-Planar Faces: Select Faces Same Plane

Discover the power of precision with TurboCAD® Mac’s new feature, Select Faces Same Plane. This tool streamlines your modeling process by intelligently selecting all faces of a solid that reside on the same plane, ensuring uniformity and accuracy in your designs.

Shear Transform

Shear Transform

Introducing the Shear Transform feature in TurboCAD® Mac, a dynamic addition to the Transform Utilities palette. This new option brings a fresh dimension to your design toolkit, allowing you to apply shear transformations to curves, surfaces, and solids with precision and ease.

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Verify Clearance

Verify Clearance

Elevate your design precision with TurboCAD® Mac’s Verify Clearance feature. This innovative tool now includes the capability to accurately calculate the spatial clearance between two solids, ensuring your components fit together perfectly.

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Surface Cover from Points

Surface Cover from Points

Transform your design process with TurboCAD® Mac’s Surface Cover from Points feature. This new addition to the Surface tool palette empowers you to craft surfaces directly from designated point locations, offering unparalleled precision and customization.

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New GD&T Example File

New GD&T Example File

Enhance your understanding of TurboCAD® Mac’s Geometric Dimension and Tolerance (GD&T) capabilities with our newly added example file. This resource showcases the diverse functionalities of the GD&T tool, providing a hands-on learning experience. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or new to GD&T principles, this example file is an invaluable asset for mastering the tool’s potential.

New Render Example File

New Render Example File

Explore the nuances of creating stunning, realistic images through our detailed example file. Learn how to leverage HDR for vivid lighting and how to position cameras for the perfect shot, enhancing the visual impact of your designs.

This new example file is a treasure trove for both novice and expert users, aiming to elevate your rendering skills to new heights with TurboCAD® Mac.

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Animation Rebound

Animation Rebound

Bring your TurboCAD® Mac animations to life with the new Animation Rebound feature. This enhancement to the Animation dialog box introduces a Rebound option, enabling animations to trace a path and then return to their starting point for a seamless loop.

Imported Textures Copied to User Custom Folder

Imported Textures Copied to User Custom Folder

Enhance your TurboCAD® Mac experience with the Imported Textures feature, which now conveniently copies any imported textures directly into your custom texture folder. This seamless integration allows for easy access and management of your textures.

Start Up Screen Updated

Start Up Screen Updated

TurboCAD® Mac’s Start-Up Screenhas undergone a transformative update, now featuring the TurboCAD® Explorer on the right side of the screen for enhanced accessibility. This integration allows for quick and easy access to frequently used commands, streamlining your design process by providing immediate entry points to Entity information, Layers, Symbols, and the TurboCAD® Mac Copilot tool.

Custom User Textures

Custom User Textures

TurboCAD® Mac 15 introduces a new feature that greatly enhances the customization of 3D models: the capability to create and store custom textures. This addition allows users to craft unique textures that can be applied to various surfaces within their designs, providing an extra layer of personalization and detail. The ability to save these textures means that they can be reused across multiple projects, ensuring consistency and saving time. This feature is particularly beneficial for designers looking to give their models a distinctive look or to match specific material properties in their renderings. 

Custom user textures also support using TurboCAD® Mac Copilot to create textures using the Text To Image assistant.

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Skin Surface with Guides

Skin Surface with Guides

TurboCAD® Mac’s skin surface creation tool with guides offers designers the flexibility to construct intricate geometries with precision. This tool allows for the manipulation of skin surfaces through customizable guides, enabling the accurate shaping of complex forms. It is particularly useful for models that require smooth, flowing surfaces, as it provides the control necessary to achieve the desired contours and intricacies. The tool is an asset for any design process that demands a high level of detail and customization in surface modeling.

Gripper Now Enabled by Default

TurboCAD® Mac introduces an intuitive enhancement: The Gripper is now activated by default. This convenient tool, featuring a graphical widget, simplifies the manipulation of objects, allowing you to move, scale, and rotate with ease. For those who wish to customize their Gripper settings, adjustments can be made on the Gripper Properties page. This update ensures a more user-friendly experience, enabling you to interact with your designs effortlessly right from the start.

Lofting with Guides

TurboCAD® Mac’s Lofting with Guides feature significantly expands design possibilities, enabling the crafting of complex shapes through the process of lofting along multiple guide curves. This method provides a powerful way to generate intricate and smooth surfaces that transition between the defined curves, offering a high degree of control over the shape’s form and flow. It’s an essential tool for designers who require the flexibility to create sophisticated and custom geometries in their 3D modeling projects.

System Requirements

TurboCAD Mac supports Apple’s 64-bit architecture. The result is smoother workflow, faster drawing display and manipulation, and the ability to work with parts and models of nearly any size. If your Mac does not use the 64-bit kernel required to support the 64-bit version of TurboCAD Mac, there is also a 32-bit version available.

64-Bit

Operating System:

Macintosh® OS 10.11 through 14¹, Apple Mac with Intel or Apple processor, 4 GB of hard disk space, 8 GB RAM or greater, Mouse Pointing Device (wheel button recommended)

¹ Program compatibility is not guaranteed for earlier or future operating systems.

CPU Type

x64 Intel® Mac®