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March 5, 2010 at 3:40 pm
I’ve been an autoCAD LT user for about 10 years. I’ve been looking at Turbocad with a view to producing some 3d work. Would the Deluxe version be a good starting point? If so can you supply this and some training media?
March 5, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Elliott
I offer TurboCAD Deluxe v16 plus a 2D training book, including 114 training videos for £100. It’s the bundle that most choose when starting off in 3D.
Just give me a call and I’ll get it sent 01962 835 081 (1)
Paul
March 5, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Thanks – I’ll call you on monday.
March 9, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Hi, I have been using a a few softwares in the past for designing kitchens and now I want to buy one. i want one which can be used to design kitchen, in both 2d and 3d, and has an appliance brochure or a library. Can you please tellme the best starting point. I have been looking for some other compnaies but they are way up my budget. Can you please help?
March 10, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Raj,
I’d recommend one of two choices.
Firstly as shown on my front page here, you can have TurboCAD professional v14, architectural or mechanical, plus the training books for £130.
However a better deal would be TurboCAD v15 professional platinum with the training books for £300. V15 has a good few extra tools and the ability to import SketchUp files which would be very useful for you.
Paul
April 19, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Hi, after some advice please, i work for a Landscape Design and contracting company and until now have produced all the drawings by hand. We have a couple of new clients (housing developers) who have asked for CAd drawings. I have a bit of experience of AUTOCAD from 15 years ago and have downloaded a trial version of Autocad LT – I now remember why I prefer the drawing board !!
Would Turbocad be a good option ? I would really prefer something that was simpler than Autocad.
Thanks. Caroline
April 26, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Caroline
AutoCAD LT is a clumsy package and very limited, you’d be much better served with TurboCAD. TurboCAD works with all the file formats that AC LT does plus several others and you get the chance to progress to 3D if you so wish, which is the way forward. You also get me one the other end of the phone line, if you get stuck.
TurboCAD v17 is just out and is £995, however I still have stock of v16 which I’m now selling at half price, i.e. £500. A couple of excellent training books will cost another £50, these include over 400 video training films. And then once you feel that you’re getting the hang of it, book a training day in Winchester for £170 net and by the end of the day you’ll have it cracked. You’ll be about £500 better off than if you’d gone down the AC route and you’ll not have any of the headaches that come packaged with AC.
I have several personal customers in the landscaping and garden design business that I’ve been looking after for a few years, D F Clark, http://www.dfclark.co.uk being the biggest.
Paul
May 10, 2010 at 9:56 am
I run a small bespoke kitchen design and installation company and up until now have been doing my drawings by hand i’m aware that I really need to get into cad designing, I recently bought a new Mac computer, could you please advise what is the easiest and most cost effective route to take.
Thanks Martin
May 12, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Martin
For Apple Mac TurboCAD comes out in three lines. The 2D version is about £50, the Deluxe, which is 2D and 3D is about £100 and the professional is £300, although I can give you 25% off these prices. I’m reasonably new to the Apple Mac versions and still learning, as they are very different from the PC version. I’d advise that you start with the Deluxe version and a 2D training CD. There are training books as well, but there is more content on the CD. We don’t have a version comparison chart of the Mac products, but the main differences are that Pro has full photorealistic rendering, sketch rendering and some advanced Surface modeling tools. Once you get the hang of it you can decide whether you need these.
Paul
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June 9, 2010 at 6:54 am
Hi
I have been using the student version of AutoCAD 2010 (I graduated last year so was able to get it for a year) to produce drawings for household extensions i.e. planning permission and building regulation drawings. My student version is about to expire and so I have been looking into buying some software, I have been looking at AutoCAD Architecture but can’t afford the astronomical prices. Would TurboCAD be suitable and what would be the main differences v. AC Architecture?
Many thanks.
Nicola
June 10, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Nicola,
See the home page on this site, there are a few simple comparisons. The article below it is about Ty Whiston who has for years been teaching AutoCAD, but is now noticing so many requests for TurboCAD raining that we are now combining our strengths.
For the work you mention, there is absolutely no need whatsoever to buy AutoCAD, it would just be a needless waste of your money.
You are welcome to call me to go through the issues any time.
Paul
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December 3, 2010 at 1:02 pm
I’ve been a TurboCAD user for over 10 years. Recently, working with a mouse to draw for hours has given me problems in the wrist, arm and shoulder. I think it could be repetitive strain injury – my hand and arm started to suffer go to sleep quite often. I’m investigating whether Drawing Tablet and Pen might help. Please advise whether it is possible to draw in TurboCAD with a pen on Drawing Tablet? Anyone who has experience of it please comment.
December 7, 2010 at 9:39 am
Charan,
I’ve never come across anyone using a tablet with TurboCAD, although I did once come across a CAD system that used a sort of half way house between a mouse and a tablet, so it may be possible. Suggest that you post you enquiry on the IMSI forum, which can be found at http://www.turbocad.com/Support/tabid/553/Default.aspx
Paul
June 6, 2011 at 2:31 pm
Hi Paul,
I am an ecologist and am looking for a package to allow me to calculate habitat areas from landscape plans (autocad drawings)- basic stuff really. I had had a play with the turbocad trial version and its great but I can’t yet scale the program to the drawing scale of autocad files. Would you firstly recommend turbocad and can you tell me the difference between the Mac and PC versions.
Thanks,
Julian
June 6, 2011 at 3:49 pm
Juuian,
If you have opened an AutoCAD file, it should be full size and therefore not needing any rescaling. If that’s not the case then whoever drew the AutoCAD file needs to go back to college and learn the basics. Having said that, unfortunately it is a very basic mistake that I occasional see.
If you go to http://images1.avanquest.com/UK/Images/TrainingNotesv14_tcm12-122056.pdf on page 5 you will find a set of instructions on how to rescale.
TurboCAD will easily fulfill all your needs, it is used my many in similar areas.
The PC and Mac versions are different, they are written by different people, so do things in a slightly different way. I prefer the PC version, but that’s mainly because I know it well and only have a passing understanding of the Mac version. I do, however, have a good 2D training video for the 2D Mac and we do sell a lot of it. Of course I also have raining books and films for the PC version and I’ve put s few getting started films on youtube, search for paulthecadtracey.
Paul
January 8, 2012 at 9:20 pm
Paul, I am due to retire from 34 years of public sector service in 5 months (army & police) and intend working for myself kitchen, bathroom & bedroom fitting. Currently doing a part P electrical course and never really considered the design side until tripping over your site on the internet. Have done lots of the installation of these areas over the years as favours for friends but always to their designs or to hand sketched drawings. Don’t need to make a fortune but wish to a good job of what I do and can’t help that thinking that to begin with a CAD design would set me off on the right footing. Do you think that any of your packages would be suitable for me and would they enable me to print of 3D designs for potential clients. Heven’t spent much time on your site but are there demo versions available. As I will be a one man band, do not want to spend a fortune. Regards Chris Airey
January 9, 2012 at 2:54 pm
Chris,
I deal with a lot of people in exactly the same situation you are in. You need a CAD system, but don’t want to spend ages learning how to understand the package. The path that I recommend here is the following.
Buy TurboCAD Deluxe v18 and a 2D training book. The book comes with a training CD and Is easy to follow, (you can always call me if you get stuck). Here you do all your 2D planning and measuring. 2D is not hard to learn, or, at least to get going with, but you do need a training book. Also buy Google SketchUp Pro. You’ll import your TurboCAD 2D plans into SketchUp and very easily turn them into 3D representations that you can show clients. You can show them a ‘walk through’ zoom in and out and make changes in front of your customer. So if they suddenly decide that they want a bigger door, or move the sink along a bit, it will take you seconds to change.
What I’ve said above is not hard to learn, there are more complicated roads that you could take, but this one is easy. So once you have bought the packages and had a bit of playing around, you book yourself on a one day course here in Winchester, where we draw up a 2D plan in TurboCAD in the morning and take it into SketchUp in the afternoon. The next such training day is on the 2nd Feb.
Paul