TurboCAD 18 Deluxe (PC DVD ROM)

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• ASIN: B0055CIVSQ
• Release Date: 8 July 2011
  

By : Avanquest Software
Price : £64.99

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TurboCad Deluxe 18
The next generation of high-performance CAD has arrived. New TurboCAD 18 offers significant improvements to just about every area in the application... including 2D and 3D performance.
TurboCAD Deluxe is powerful and complete 2D/3D CAD software. Use the setup wizard, snaps and alignment aids to quickly layout your design. Choose from beginner, intermediate or advanced modes to access hundreds of drawing, modifying, dimensioning and annotation tools. Apply realistic materials and lighting effects to create stunning, photorealistic presentations, and explore design alternatives with the Design Director. Plus, extensive file interoperability, including support for AutoCAD DWG/DXF and Google SketchUp, make it easy to share your work with others. It's everything you need to need to create presentation-ready home plans, technical drawings, mechanical designs, illustrations, school projects and more.
Complete Set Of 2D Drafting And 3D Modelling Tools
TurboCAD employs a large selection of line, arc, curve, spline tools, and other expected tools, so that no matter the situation you've got access to the right tool for the job. When used with TurboCAD snaps, modification tools, and drawing aids you will be able to quickly draft and document your designs. Below is only a small sample of the drawing, modifying, and dimensioning tools.

• Drawing Tools: Arc, Bezier Curve, Circles, Command Line, Construction Lines, Double Line, Ellipse, Line, Multiline, Parallel Line, Perpendicular Line, Points, Polygon, Polyline, Revision Cloud, Spline Curve, Trim, Wall
• Modelling Tools: Box, Cone, Cylinder, Sphere, Wedge, Prism, Doughnut, Extrude, Helix, Revolve, Sweep, Mesh, Booleans And Splines
• Editing/Modification Tools: Align, Array, Boolean operations, Chamfer, Distribute, Double Line Modify, Erase, Fillet, Join Polyline, Meet two lines, Mirror, Multi shrink/extend line, Offset, Rotate, Scale, Split, Stretch, Shrink/extend line, Transform, Trim
• Dimension Types: Angular, Baseline, Continuous, Datum, Diameter, Incremental, Orthogonal, Parallel, Quick, Radial, Rotated, String, Smart

Usability And Interface

• Context-Sensitive Help: Right-click to instantly access recently used tools, recently entered values, and a quick way to change or reset reference points. If a TurboCAD tool is active, the context menu provides a contextual toolbar as well, with additional similar tools and functions
• Flexible User Interface: Turn on and off only the tools you want to see as you work in a familiar, windows-like, customisable interface. Display TurboCAD's comprehensive set of 2D/3D design tools with full explanations in the beginner mode. Switch to intermediate or expert mode to gain screen space as you become more familiar with the program
• Page Set Up Wizard: Breeze through questions designed to help you define your drawing's size and orientation, units of measurement, printing scale and viewpoints
• Advanced Handle-Based Editing: Save time and draw more accurately, more quickly. TurboCAD provides handles for scaling, but also for rotating, moving and aligning objects
• Snaps and Geometric Alignment Aids: Draw lines quickly and let snap tools automatically align them with the closest centre point, end point, or dozens of points you choose. Geometric alignment aids improve snap indicators
• 2D and 3D Text Editing: Create and edit text without leaving your drawing. Plus, choose from thousands of colours for text and background
• Colours, Brushes, Bitmap and Gradient Fills, and Transparency: TurboCAD allows for hatch patterns and gradients to be layered with transparency. Custom bitmaps, such as your company logo, may be used as well. This empowers you to much more clearly and precisely communicate construction or assembly details
• Table Objects: Create a table on the fly, or import a table from DWG/DXF files
• Fill Schedule Wizard: Create and fill the schedule table with drawing information

Architectural
TurboCAD Deluxe 18 includes practical tools tailored to architects, builders, and civil engineers. Design and showcase floor plans, decks, kitchens, bathrooms, room additions and more.

• Intelligent Walls: Self-healing walls automatically join and intersect as you design in 2D or 3D. View wall dimensions with a single-click
• Automatic Wall Openings: "Slide" doors, windows, arches or any shape to create "openings" in walls with linked 2D and 3D views. Set vertical alignment properties for precise placement
• Parametric Doors and Windows: Window and Door dimensions can be scaled to meet your design needs. Further customise with materials and colours
• Hatch Patterns and Fills: Choose from over 70 hatch patterns (including colours) to visually identify various components of your drawing. Bitmaps, like your company logo, or gradient fills may also be used with transparency
• Fractional Dimensions: Display fractions in stacked, diagonal, or in-line layout to accommodate your personal preferences
• Point Marker Tool: Automatically number objects such as rooms, doors or windows. Great for creating legends, call outs, or simply mapping points and adding notes to your drawings

Mechanical
TurboCAD Deluxe 18 offers innovative tools tailored to mechanical engineers and designers. Design everything from engines and mechanical parts, to circuit boards, patent drawings and more.

• 2D and 3D Boolean operations: Use two existing objects and combine, subtract, intersect, or slice to create a new object. Select multiple entities for addition or subtraction
• Revolve: Move a 2D object around a revolution axis to create a 3D object
• Extrude: Pull complex 3D models from simple 2D shapes
• Sweeps: Extrude shapes along a path, perfect for drafting irregular objects
• Chain Polyline: Chain Polyline allows for faster design by allowing you to connect intersecting objects or portions of objects into a single polyline which can be then extruded, revolved or swept
• Automatic, Editable Meshes: Easily create complex meshes by entering coordinate information or importing matrix data from Excel, then view, edit and render
• Colour Transparency: Screen back the colour of an object in the foreground to display or emphasise hidden details in the background

Visualisation

• Lightworks Photorealistic Rendering: TurboCAD Deluxe includes powerful, easy-to-use rendering and visualisation technology by LightWorks. Define physically accurate materials such as glass, mirrors, and polished or reflective surfaces with ray tracing, allowing anyone to create stunning photorealistic designs
• Materials Library: Choose from or create your own realistic material patterns, transparency, reflectance, and texture types and settings as well as multiple wrapping options to make designs look like they will in real life
• Realistic Lighting Effects: Multiple light types and settings cast hard and soft shadows and reflect accurately off reflective surfaces with ray tracing allowing you to create photorealistic designs. Fog and scattering mediums are also supported
• Design Director: Organise, access, and explore design alternatives easily in the Design Director Palette. Create layer templates, light templates, camera templates and powerful layer for use on different designs
• Floating and Shaped Viewports: Create viewports of Model space in multiple Paper spaces. Edit your viewports by changing their shape or the layers that they display. You can even render within a viewport
• Multiple Drawings/Multiple Paper Space: Build multiple drawings, each with multiple paper spaces, with independent settings (grid units, etc.); then use tabs to quickly switch between paper spaces

Incredible Compatibility
TurboCAD Deluxe 18 supports 28 industry-standard formats, including AutoCAD and Google SketchUp making it an excellent companion product.New Google SketchUp SKP Import/Export up to v8 Import detailed information from your SketchUp model into TurboCAD. Supplemental rendering, lighting and materials information is also imported. You can also convert your TurboCAD models into native SketchUp (.SKP) files for seamless import into Google SketchUp. Updates to this filter with TurboCAD Deluxe 18 allows users to now read/write Google SketchUp files up to version 8. New AutoCAD 2011 .DWG/.DXF Import/Export TurboCAD has always offered excellent compatibility with native AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT files. There is even the ability to export XREFs with DWG or DXF drawings offers even greater AutoCAD file compatibility. Filter enhancements with TurboCAD Deluxe 18 offers improved file sharing with AutoCAD 2010 and 2011.

Xref Manager Manage external references (Xrefs) like a parts catalog in your TurboCAD drawing. Xrefs can also be exported with DWG or DXF drawings for greater AutoCAD file compatibility. PDF Publishing Save your drawing as PDF documents for easy sharing. Plus, export paper spaces, customize your fonts and define your paper widths and height.
Includes CAD Fundamental Free
This comprehensive self training CD course, featuring over 5 hours of audio-video material, was created by TurboCAD expert Ken Doyle. The training CD includes 180 colour video-based lessons designed to help TurboCAD owners master 2D CAD drawing and drafting quickly and easily. The easy to use step-by-step lessons build skills as the user needs them. This course is ideal for the inexperienced to intermediate CAD user.

• Introductory lessons cover the set-up of a drawing page; choosing units of measurement, precisions and scales; addition and editing of text in a drawing; making and insertion of view points; use of model and paper space; and comprehensive print set-up and printing instructions.
• 24 exercises cover basic to advanced drawing tools including: Polylines, Polygons, Arcs, Circles, Layers, Snaps and Copy tools. In addition, the CD provides instruction in tools to increase accuracy and manipulation of drawings, including Mirror Copy, Patch Hatching, Parallel Lines, Line Properties, Dimensioning and Tolerances, Drawing with Angles, Node Editing, and using short cuts within the program.
• Learn how to change the work page layout and set up various toolbars on the screen to suit how you would like to work. Also learn how to save these layouts and transfer them to a different work computer.
• The Study Organiser: Designed to be printed out before the user begins viewing the lessons, the Organiser assists with tracking progress and time for each video lesson. Each lesson button on the CD shows a tool tip which is listed in the Study Organiser.
• The Gallery: Features drawings by both inexperienced and experienced TurboCAD users illustrating the potential of TurboCAD as a design tool.

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TurboCAD 18 Deluxe (PC DVD ROM)

 

Product Features

• Complete set of 2D/3D drafting, design and modelling tools
• LightWorks Photorealistic Lighting and Rendering
• Easy-to-Use in a customisable interface
• Sophisticated mechanical tools
• Supports 28 industry-standard file formats
• Improved DWG/DXF Filter
• Innovative Architectural Tools – that let you design floorplans, decks, kitchens, bathrooms, room additions and more
• Perfect for anyone from hobbyists to engineers, graphic designers to builders
• Improved features include: Dimensions, Stretch Tool, Fillet (2D) Tool, Layers and Construction Lines
• New features include: Blocks, House Wizard and Copy in Place Tool

Customer Reviews

An awesome selection of features (and it will take a LONG time to try out all of them!), but straight-forward and reasonably intuitive to use without having to trawl through the instructions each time you want to try something new.
There are plenty of [mostly useful] tutorials, which help you get from simple use of the package to the point of making sophisticated CAD drawings.
The program controls make sense and if you have used other CAD packages, will be easy to understand. There are lots of timesaving features to create tables on the fly, inline text editing and auto alignment.
The architectural stuff looks good - with "intelligent walls" - which automatically join up, and lots of easy ways to add doors, windows etc.
Recommended for the committed DIY enthusiast, small businesses, and (why I bought it) for drawing Feng Shui house diagrams!

Well featured and pretty intuitive CAD package. It's very capable, yet the user can get straight on with drawing something, without having to get annoyed by reference points, parent-child associations, etc. that you get in the complex industrial packages (CATIA V5, SOLIDworks).
The tutorials start from the very basics for those not used to controlling the MS Windows environment (screen resolution, etc) and take you through producing Working Drawings. Some of the tutorials speak as if you might be a student getting college work done.
There was a sound problem in some of the tutorials - the commentary had an echo; most likely an odd interaction with my sound card.
The icons and basic controls are pretty much similar to other CAD and drawing packages, so it's really easy to pick up. The default snapping is sensible and there are useful features like double-line/shape drawing modes to reduce time and fuss when you're working.
Good selection of view options on mouse right-click in the main menu, including walk-throughs.
There isn't a context-sensitive Help menu system, but the TurboCAD website says this is being addressed.
Great for home use and simple industrial design work.

 

TurboCAD 18 Deluxe (PC DVD ROM)