With the increase in traffic through the Planning Portal all Local Authorities are depending more on the electronic submission of planning applications. 

All planning authorities therefore need a straightforward, inexpensive and easy to use package that allows professional planners and non professions alike to be able to view and check drawings. Most of the time it is just a matter of a general check of information and measurement. For this, viewing a simple PDF would suffice. Packages to save as PDF are either cheap or free, (obviously if you pay, you get more), but a PDF is just a flat picture of a CAD drawing.

TurboCAD will give the architect and the planning office more possibilities than just PDF for the same price as a PDF package. A planning application drawn in TurboCAD is a CAD drawing that can be saved in at least 19 file formats, 29 in professional, including PDF, with the option of four different types of DWG and DXF. So, to put it simply, an amateur or professional designer can design in TurboCAD, swap his ideas with any other designer, no matter what package or version the other is using, take it back, edit it and send it to the Local Authority, or any other professional body, in the most appropriate CAD format for them to read as well as a PDF.

This means that Local Authority Professionals needing to edit the design can easily do so and those without a CAD package can still read the drawings.

For PDF drawings coming in with little idea of scale, it takes less than a minute to re-scale the whole drawing so that sizes can be read.

Because TurboCAD does not have complications such as the command line, it is quick and simple to lean for those new to CAD, training is a one day course and support comes free with the professional package.