TurboCAD v17

TURBOCAD PRO 17

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SPECIAL OFFER – TurboCAD Pro Platinum Edition v17 – £500 (inc VAT)
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With over sixty performance gains, TurboCAD Pro 17 and Pro Platinum 17 also contain dozens of new features and productivity improvements. The seven most noticeable developments are:

• View wireframes up to 60 times faster. A new drawing engine takes advantage of GPU-based graphics cards so speed increases dramatically in wireframe and 2D mode.  Larger files will pan, orbit, and zoom in and out smoothly.
• Work with the latest AutoCAD® files. Added support for .DWG 2010.
• Better Google™ SketchUp™ workflow. A significantly improved COLLADA (.DAE) export feature includes instances so that blocks and architectural objects will be read by SketchUp as components.
• More powerful Xrefs. We’ve added Xref clipping for dozens of file formats and allow binding of Xrefs, which can then be exploded and edited. Xref layers are easier to manage, even with layer filters.
• New possibilities are available with 3D patterns. Rapidly design mechanical parts with repetitive structures. Apply patterns to spheres and cylinders, radial patterns, 3D arrays, or patterns along a curve for shapes that couldn’t easily be drawn before.  Arrayed patterns such as ventilation holes, keypad designs, and more can also be designed and merged with other objects.  (Platinum Edition.)
• An improved Wall tool now allows for definition of intelligent relationships between walls to link or not link, clean or remain separate, in any combination.
• Create any style of door or window easily. ACA compatible Door and Window Muntins expand options for parametrically creating the exact object types for your design.  (Platinum Edition.)

And for a limited period we are giving away a very useful plug in called Drawing Compare. This tool detects differences in edited or updated drawings. Simply impose your original drawing over the edited version and the changes are immediately highlighted.

Availability and Pricing

TurboCAD v18 is now available - Click here for more info … v17 prices have been dropped …

TurboCAD Deluxe 17 is now £40 inc VAT
TurboCAD Pro Platinum 17 is now available for £500 inc VAT.

AMAZING OFFER – SketchUp Pro + TurboCAD Pro Platinum 18 + Shaderlight Pro Interactive 3D Rendering Plug-in – £1200 inc VAT.

To purchase at these very special prices, please click here to visit the PaulTheCAD Online Shop, call Paul on 01962 835081, or email ptracey@processflows.co.uk.

TurboCAD Reviewed

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TurboCAD version differences:

Feature	Description	New or	Pro	Pro
		Improved	Basic	Platinum	Deluxe	Design
Drafting/Detailing:
Blocks and Groups	In-place editing of blocks and groups. Now can edit and customize individual blocks	Improved	•	•	•	•
CTB Print Style Support	Color Table (CTB) support added to existing support of Style Table (STD) print styles	New	•	•	•	•
Drafting Palette	Ability to lock/unlock all or part of enity being drafted (sectioned); new caching algorithm greatly improves the speed of redrawing the sectioned view.	Improved	•	•
Index Colour Support	Index Colours added to support of True Colours. Includes proper round-tripping of DWG files and the Colour Dialog’s Index colours match AutoCAD LT colours 1:1.	New	•	•	•	•
Layer Filters	Layer filters help organise layers by a defined set of parameters. All layers which meet the parameters define by the filter will be grouped in the lower panel of the Design Director	New	•	•	•	•
Layer Management	Addition of Line Style, Pen Width and Print Stlye parameters to Design Director and Drawing Setup	Improved	•	•	•
Line Width Scaling	New Value “Device Width” for TC pen property “Line Width Scale System” was added	New	•	•	•	•
Meet 2 Lines tool	Bezier and NURBs curves are now supported	Improved	•	•	•	•
Multilanguage support	It is now possible to input, edit and visualise objections name (Layers, blocks, styles etc) indepedant of the current local OS system settings	New	•	•	•	•
Multi-Leader Dimension	New dimension type that allows for multiple arrows that point to lines of text	New	•	•
Multi-Text, Text	Much easier to now get into edit mode as editing is turned on when either the MultiText or Text tools are enabled. Able to enter larger text strings without degradation of performance	Improved	•	•	•	•
Paper Space Templates	Ability insert and extract specific Paper Spaces from other TurboCAD templates, TCW and DDWG files. Ability to define different printers and printer settings for each Paper Space in a drawing	Improved	•	•	•	•
Pick-Point Hatching	Redesigned tool that streamlines the pick point hatch process	Improved	•	•	•	•
Section Detail tool	Enables closed sD entitles (circles, polygons, polylines) to act as a cutting contour with other intersecting 2D objects	New	•	•	•
Shrink/Extended tool	Bezier and NURBs cruves are now supported	Improved	•	•	•	•
Templates	Improved Architectural and Metric templates	Improved	•	•	•	•
Viewport Explode	Viewports may be exploded to create flat 2D geometry, including hidden line views. Ability to ad, delete or hatch elements.	Improved	•	•	•	•
XCLIP	Added xClip functionality which is comparable to AutoCAD xClip command	New		•
Xref Binding	External drawing can be bound to the main drawing. Bound Xrefs may be exploded. Xref layer properties can be changed in the main drawing.	Improved	•	•	•
3D Modeling:
ACIS v20	Updated Solid Modeling engine	Improved	•	•
Rail Sweep	Option to use Compound path has been added. Also, new option of “Vertical Profile Orientation”, which controls the profile orientation relative to the path.	Improved	•	•
Revolve Tool	Option to use Compund Profile that contains holes, has been added	Improved	•	•
Surface Measurement	New option to perform measurements of XX of 3D surfaces	New	•	•
Architectural:
1st Pricing Plug-in	Improved, BIM-oriented plug-in for pricing Windows, Doors		•	•
Door and Window Muntins	New tool that allows for definition of type and style of window pane holder/separator in doors and windows	New		•
Railings	Materals added to each elemetn of the Rail object. Separate materials can be defined for each elemetn	Improved		•
Walls	New Link Wall Segments option added; new property, autocleanup added	Improved	•	•	•
Walls	New Bottom wall modifier tool added to Wall menu. Previously TC only had the ability to modify the top of a wall.	New		•
Interoperability, Programmability:
Collada (DAE) Filter	Updated and impoved file export capabilities	Improved	•	•
DWG/DXF Filters	Ability to so define line weight for file import; define how arc elements convert during export. Ability to reader Multi-Leader objects and styles. Now possible to control Xrefs through Xref layers	Improved	•	•	•	•
EPS Filter	Updated and improved file import capabilities	Improved	•	•	•
Macro Recorder		Improved	•	•
Parametric Part Scripting Language	Additional mathematical commands now supported. Ability to import Dynamic Components from SketchUp drawings.	Improved	•	•
Proxy Object Support	Save rpoxy object option allows for faster file opening; TC Deluxe and Designer will be able to display (Pro Specific) proxy objects	New	•	•
SDK Filter	New exmaple code, additional function and object definitions	Improved	•	•
SKP (Google SketchUp) Filter	Import filter now brings in circles and arcs as those entity types	Improved	•	•	•
Mechanical:
Geometric Tolerance	New tool for mechanical designers that allows them to tell a machine shop/manufacturere how to a machine a part	New		•
Pattern Tools	5 pattern copy tools which allow the user to very simply apply repeating geometeries on ACIS objects. Patterns are parametric can interact with entities through Boolean operations.	New		•
UI/Performance:
Drawing Performance	Huge speed improvement in panning, zooming and rotating large objects with addition of Redway engine.	New	•	•

For more information or to upgrade, please contact Paul Tracey, 01962 835 081, or email ptracey@processflows.co.uk.