Key Features Comparison

UI & Performance
Audit System - locate 'bad' or out-of-rage objects based upon user criterion
AutoCAD®-like 2D Drafting Interface Options
Command Line with Dynamic Input Cursor
Easy, Handle-Based Editing
ePack with New Intelligent File Send
PDF Underlay Tool
Purge Tool
Windows 64-bit and 32-bit Compatible Versions
Design Director - for object property management
Layer Filters
Layer Management
Conceptual Selector
Timestamp
Confirm replace warning message - Added in warning dialogue
Customize Ribbon Configuration
Named View Enhancements
Reset All Button in UI Theme Dialog Box
Ribbon UI Theme Support
UI Scale Slider in "Customize" Dialog Box and 4K monitor support
2D Drafting & Editing
2D Drawing, Editing and Modifying
Advanced Drawing Tools (Gear, Surface Tolerance, Text along Curve)
Drafting and Detailing Palette - create associative sections and cut planes
2D Geometric and Dimension Constraints
Associative Arrays and Pattern Tools
Arrow tools
Auto Tools (for Scaling, Sizing, Positioning, Rotating, and Movement)
Bezier and Fair Curves
Centerline and Center Mark
Hatch Pattern Creator & Gradient Fills
Smart and Quick Dimension Tools
Relative Angle Field
Angular dimension tool improvement
Construct Similar
Highlight End Points
Improved Inspector Bar functionality
Open/Close property for Polyline
PDF /Insert/Underlay - New for TurboCAD Deluxe and Designer
Pick Point Hatch Improvement
Remove Overlapping Entities Tool
Select by Similar - Select objects with shared or similar properties
Trace Tools - Trace By Point and Trace By Rectangle incorporated to 64-bit
FlatShot (PHLV5, tcHidden)
Constraint Animation
Quick Dimension improvements
3D Drawing, Modelling & Editing
3D Surface Primitives
3D Booleans - Add, Subtract, Intersection
3D Helix
3D Splines and Polylines
Extrude (simple)
Assembly Tools
Sweep
Revolve
Advanced Blending Functionality
Slot Tools
3D Patterns from Compound Profiles
Mirror Copy Tool for 3D Objects
3D Slice by Facet
ACIS® Faceter Surface Tolerance
Extrude Improvement - Surface extrude for flat 3D polylines or 3D curves
Fillet Edges (blend) Tool Improvements
Flange Sheet Improvement
Unbend Tool Improvement
Advanced Cover/Guides
3D Print Repair Tool
Solid Modeling & Advanced Mechanical Design
Part Tree/History Tree
ACIS® Solid Modeling
Thread tool
Stretch Entity
Extract Entity
Push/Pull Tool
Imprint
Law Tools - Curve from Law; Surface with Laws; Offset with Law; Warp Entity by Law
Lofting
NURBS Support
Sheet Metal Tools (bend and unbend, flange, gusset and rib)
Smooth Surface Meshes (SMesh)
Tweak Face and Revolve Face
Twist Entity
Twisted Extrude, Extrude to Face Tools
Advanced Architectural Design & GIS
House Builder Wizard
Simple BIM via IFC Support
Import only
Import only
Intelligent (Parametric) Attribute-rich, Architectural Objects*
Walls (Self-Healing; Straight, Curved; Block Insert)
Compound Wall Definitions / Multi-Component Walls
Windows & Doors
Muntins - for Windows & Doors
Roofs
Slabs (Floor and Roof Slabs, now with openings)
Stairs
Rails
Markers
Schedule
Schedule Tool and Wizard
Architectural Sections and Elevations (3D-to-2D documentation)
Style Manager
Limited
Limited
Self-Trimming and Self-Aligning Blocks
Geolocation of Drawings, Compass Rose
"Array tools" improvement for ADT (Architectural Desktop) objects
BIM Tool Improvement - BIM palette for show/edit BIM data
Removal of lines between Floors of multi-story houses
Photorealistic Rendering and Visualization
3D Photorealistic Rendering
Customizable Luminances and Material Libraries
Advance Rendering
Caustics for Sun Lights
Customizable Environments Library
Luminance of Objects, Shadow Casting, Anti-aliasing
OpenGL & Hidden Line Rendering
Ray Tracing
Render Manager
Shared Shader Sets - support of legacy drawings
UV Mapping - now includes SMesh Objects
Volumetric Rendering Effects
Dynamic Cutaway Plane
Geo-located Sun & Physical Sky Lighting
TurboLux™ Photorealistic Physical Based Rendering, Lighting and Material Support
New Sun and Sky shader
Option to turn on/off assignment of materials to Face with color
Database and Programmatic Support; Content
Blocks, Block Editor and Xref Support
Internal Database and Custom Data; External Database Connectivity
Parametric Parts Editor for 2D and 3D parts creation and management
Programmable SDK & Ruby Scripting (Compatible with SketchUp Ruby Scripts)
Symbols, Part Library
Table Styles with Property Set Definitions
Interoperability
Adobe 3D PDF (.U3D and .PRC) Export
U3D only
3D Printer Support via .STL Import and Export
AutoCAD (DXF, DWG, and DWF) File Compatibility
Import and Open File Formats
15
22
25
41
Export of Coordinate Data
Export, Save As, and Publish File Formats
16
23
27
34
Enhanced SketchUp File (SKP) Import - geometry, views, materials, components
File Conversion Tool with Batch File Conversion
Open and Save ASAT, SAT,IGS, STP mechanical drawings
Open and Save 3DM (Rhino), OBJ, SHX (save only) , STP files
OBJ, SHX only
TAP File Import - Import TurboApp files from mobile devices
Google Earth (KML and KMZ) File Support
Terrain Data (XYZ) File Import and Export Support
3DM, 3DS
3MF
Point Cloud Support (PCD, PCG, XYZ, ASC)
DWG/DXF filter
FBX Filter
STL Improvement - 3D Print check
SAB Filter
SAT Filter - Support for Curves
Spatial InterOp (Catia V4/V5/V6, Inventor, NX 5, Parasolid, Pro/E/Creo, Solid Edge, SolidWorks, VDA-FS)
Other
Point Cloud Triangulation
Subset Point Cloud
Network License Support
Spatial ACIS update for 28.0/29.0
 

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Performance, User Interface and Usability
2024 NEW FEATURES
LTE configurations have been included in TurboCAD
2D Drafting & Editing
2024 NEW FEATURES
"Points along path" Tool
"Basic Shapes" Tool
"Connector Creation" Tool
"Attached Text" Tool
Selector General. New parameter section 'Mark Size'
Selector 2D - New Axis Options
Select by Type tool improvement
Blend Curves tool
Bezier Edit tool improvement
Render Palettes
Curve improvement: Property "show curvatures"
Drafting Palette - Highlight View Line associated with the "Aligned Section View"
3D Drawing, Modeling & Editing
2024 NEW FEATURES
Graphic On Path tool - Improved (increased) calculation accuracy
Surface by set of polylines
Helix, Curve from Law, Spline, and Bezier objects improvement. New property "Length"
ACIS® 2024 update
Hole tool - Custom hole
Rendering & Visualization
2024 NEW FEATURES
Improved Friendliness
New property "Sun dir by geo-location"
Quality Render Modes
New diagnostic warnings for TurboLux Scene
3D Mesh support
'Using drawing geo-location data to calculate direction for Directional shader
Edge Intersection
Ground Shadow Category in Environment Library
New environment shader Ground Shadow
Export to VSFX format
ODA Visualize SDK. v24.4
Render Manager. New command ‘Add Visualize component’
Drawing Selector using Visualize
Drawing selected entities using Visualize
Drawing entities highlighted from 'Selection Info' using Visualize
Show selected entities while dragging using Visualize
Show/Hide highlighting selected entities in Wireframe mode
New option 'Selected Entity Style Transparency' in 'Selection Info'
Highlight Styles
Conceptual Selector
New section “Selector 3D Conceptual Lighting Visualize”
New property page 'Selector Properties Visualize
Interoperability
2024 NEW FEATURES
ODA updated to 24.3
STEP Support using ODA
Rhino 3D Filter Update to latest OpenNURBS SDK
IFC Import Updated to 4.2 version
SketchUp SDK Updated to SDK_WIN_x64_2023-0-397
SVG Import
Improved reading of corrupted TCW files
3dm import - Rhino block insertions
 

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