TurboCAD Professional

TurboCAD® Pro is a precision design solution that delivers unparalleled design productivity and dramatic visual results with integrated 2D drafting, 3D surface and solid modeling, and 3D photorealistic rendering. Geometric and dimensional constraint management tools, simplified text editing and superior file format compatibility provides added power and precision. Adjustable tool palettes, context sensitive tools and intuitive work flow combine to deliver time savings. LightWorks® 7.5 and LightWorks Archives of materials and effects achieve stunning visual presentations for architectural and mechanical designs. Match lighting with real-world backgrounds to create designs with photorealistic precision. TurboCAD Pro is the most advanced CAD software in its price range.

Pentium IV Processor. • Microsoft® Windows XP 512 Mb RAM, Microsoft® Vista 1 Gb RAM • 300 MB of free hard disk space depending on accessory applications installed, 64+ MB of swap space. • Super VGA (1024 x768) display. • High Color (16 bit) graphics card. • 4X CD-ROM drive with 32 bit drivers. The following items are recommended but not required: • 2+ GHz Processor • 3D Graphics accelerator card • Wheel mouse • Internet connection • Microsoft® Internet Explorer™ required for Internet registration • Macromedia® Flash™ plug-in required for on-line tutorials.

UGS's D-Cubed Dimensional Constraint Manager

TurboCAD’s Constraint Manager makes modifying your designs for consistency and directional control a cinch. It contains more than 15 constraints for 2D lines, arcs, circles and dimensions, making it much easier to create and manage design dependencies in your drawings. Plus, you’ll be able to import and automatically convert existing 2D TurboCAD and AutoCAD® designs into fully constrained drawings.

ACIS® Version 14

TurboCAD Professional includes the ACIS version 14 modeling engine from Spatial, giving you the ability to create 3D models faster. Now you can quickly and easily create complex shapes using NURBS, plus create a solid from a surface or vice versa.

• "Perpendicular" snaps
• Allows multiple snaps to be turned on concurrently
• Set priorities for multiple simultaneous snaps
• Fix "divide by" and "tangent" snaps for curves
• Add tangent option for extended ortho snap
  
  

Advanced Mechanical Design

TurboCAD Professional delivers powerful solid and surface modeling with extreme versatility. With the powerful Drafting palette, you can create 2D layouts of 3D models and assemblies-in seconds. You can build layouts with multiple projections, complex sectional views, and even derivative sectional views, with just a few clicks.

• NURBS-based objects including deformable modeling
• Creation of solids from surfaces and surfaces from solids
• Axis scaling of all ACIS objects
• Powerful Drafting palette
• Use 2D tools in Render Mode
• STEP import/export filter
• Industry-standard IGES filter
• Facet editing of ACIS 3D objects and surfaces
• Historical, editable part tree
• Complex extrusions and imprints
• Intricate revolutions and spirals
• Complete 2D/3D Boolean operations
• 3D shelling, lofting, and blending
• Surface modeling and meshes
  
  

Intelligent Architectural Design

When you begin your drawing in TurboCAD, the complete suite of TurboCAD architectural tools give you the power to design in 2D and 3D-simultaneously.

• Support for interior- and exterior-wall materials
• Wall-direction indicators enhance materials selection and block insertion
• Convert lines, polylines, circles and curves into walls
• Roof editing, dimensioning and transform tools
• Self-healing 2D and 3D walls
• Wall openings with styles
• Parametric roofs with openings
• Parametric symbols and blocks
• Sections and cross sections
• Rendered walk-throughs
• Schedules and bills of materials
  
  

Superior Artistic Design and Presentation

Bring your computer-designed images to life with photo-realistic precision using LightWorks Rendering Engine. Take your presentations to another level with one of the coolest additions to TurboCAD Professional - our Brush Style Editor. Bitmap Fills let you put a photo or another graphic element inside your design. Gradient Fills allow you to fade from light to dark along radial, linear, diamond or custom paths. And Color Transparency allows you to screen back the color of an object in the foreground to display or emphasize hidden details in the background.

• Extensive options for hidden-line rendering
• Color selection and creation tools
• Work in 2D or 3D without leaving Rendered mode
• Raytrace, radiosity, and Open GL rendering
• LightWorks rendering engine
• 2D and 3D raster-image manipulation
• Customizable luminance and environments
• Customizable materials, textures, and reflections
• Hidden-line isometrics and perspectives
• Click-and-apply palettes
  
  

Compatible and Programmable

TurboCAD Professional supports 28 of the most popular industry-standard file formats, including AutoCAD® DWG and DXF, DesignCAD DCD, MicroStation® DGN, 3DS, IGES, and the new STL. You also have the option to publish your designs in HTML, JPG, and MTX formats. The powerful TurboCAD Professional Version 11 program also includes a complete software development kit.

TurboCAD Pro is for you

Whether you’re a drafter that works mostly in 2D and sketch mode or professional that works mostly with 3D custom designs and high-end renderings, TurboCAD Professional’s complete set of tools provides an integrated 2D/3D environment to create precise architectural and mechanical engineering drawings.

Integrated ScanPro Raster-to-Vector Converter

This tool can automatically convert scanned in data into the most important CAD formats of the day. Using a process called Raster-to-Vector conversion ScanPro transforms your line art scans, drawings, and cocktail napkin sketches into workable CAD drawings.

This Is Only The Beginning

There is so much more in TurboCAD Professional that will give you the ultimate designing experience. It’s versatile, fast, easy to understand, easy to use, and gives you more power than any previous version of TurboCAD and any other consumer CAD program.