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By: Paul The CAD

Paul The CAD — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:14:46 +0000

Murray,
Firstly you need to draw in 3D from the start, not 2D then convert. We have a really good 3D raining book that you can buy at a discount via this site, (discount code on home page).
There are lots of free training videos on you tube – you need to understand Workplanes.
Look at http://www.textualcreations.ca to see what can be achieved.
16 pro is fine for the job. I’d suggest you buy the training book, do a few exercises and call me when you get stuck.
Paul

By: Murray

Murray — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:04:39 +0000

can soemone please help me i have just bought turbo cad 16 professional and i would liek to use it to design cars and then put them into 3 d could you please help me

thanks

murray

By: Paul The CAD

Paul The CAD — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:05:36 +0000

Konrad,

I’ll mention it to Bob at IMSI next time we talk, although I rather think that he’ll say that you can’t have it both ways.

Paul

By: Konrad

Konrad — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:36:37 +0000

Thanks Paul

I was aware of the double explode trick, but the text is no longer editable e.g. ‘DOG’ cannot be changed to ‘CAT’ simply by retyping the text. The ‘DOG’ 3D solids must be deleted, ‘CAT’ text created and then double exploded and the material properties reapplied.

I guess it can’t be done. Maybe a feature request?

Konrad

By: Paul The CAD

Paul The CAD — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:02:33 +0000

Konrad,
If you explode text, then you can do a great deal more with it – stretch it, give it hight. I think you have to explode it twice to give it 3D qualities. Once you have exploded twice, you can use the ‘Surface from Profile’ tool to enable you to impose a material.
So
1 Select Text
2 Explode twice
3 While selected, double click on Surface from Profile.
4 Impose material.

Paul

By: konrad

konrad — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:34:21 +0000

Hello Paul

Is there a way of creating editable 3D text in TurboCad v16 pro? While 2d text can be extruded into 3D this is no longer editable making changes laborious.

Alternatively, can a material property be assigned to text rather than just a simple colour?

Thanks

By: Paul The CAD

Paul The CAD — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:26:25 +0000

Lorraine

I think that you’re going to have problems with Windows 7 here that you probably will not be able to get around. At first I heard only good things about it, but I’m now finding that it’s throwing up problems with some of the tools. I have spoken IMSI about this but and they are working through the SDK files to sort them out, however this will take time. I’d suggest that you post the problem on the IMSI forum and see if anyone has a solution that works for you. You can find it at http://www.imsidesign, then follow links to TurboCAD Products and Support.

Paula

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:36:50 +0000

Is anyone successfully running TurboCAD v3 on Windows 7?
For me and my Dad TurboCAD v3 crashes when choosing File,Open, Save, Save As, Insert File, Insert Picture, Insert Object.
I’ve tried right click on TurboCAD 3 run as administrator and tried right click properties, compatibility mode, Windows 95 etc.
The learning edition V4 works ok, but my Dad really likes using TurboCAD version 3.

By: Paul The CAD

Paul The CAD — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:09:43 +0000

AF Vila Boa,

Don’t know about putting it on a disk. However if you give me a mailing address, I’ll send you a more up to date copy. No charge.

Paul

01962 835 081 (1)

By: AF Vila Boa

AF Vila Boa — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:45:12 +0000

I have a old turbocad v1.8 (not 1.6 as said before) in floppy disk. 20 years ago was very useful. I am retired and not willing to get into the new versions. For the sketches I need to do, would still be perfect.
Would there be possible, be any chance, to get it in CD, to run in windows vista or XP?
Also the problem of the printer. It was parallel. Is there any chance to convert to USB?
Any help would be very much appreciated
.