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- ASIN: B005OOG3K8
- Release Date: 14 Oct 2011
By : Avanquest Software
Price : £51.05
Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
TurboCAD Mac Designer 2D delivers drafting and design tools that effortlessly translate ideas into reality. Created with the simple user interface every Mac user demands, it's easy to produce anything from simple sketches to standards compliant, production ready drawings. Get started right away with 500 pre-drawn floor plans or import an existing CAD file in one of the many supported file formats, including AutoCAD® DWG/DXF. With intuitive design tools, snaps, alignments aids, 7,000 pre-drawn symbols, customisable keyboard shortcuts, automated user tips and online help, even novice designers can quickly create precision designs. Perfect for beginners, hobbyists and students.
Complete Set of 2D Drafting Tools
TurboCAD Mac Designer offers a large selection of 2D drafting tools for incredible design capabilities. Choose from a number of 2D drafting tools including line, arch, curve, ellipse and spline tools. Access text and dimensioning tools, as well as 2D modifier tools (including fillet and chamber tools) and 2D transformation tools are available for easy editing.
Drafting Assistant ; Snaps
The Drafting Assistant thinks like a drafter. It automatically knows where construction lines are typically wanted and displays them temporarily when necessary. Combine with snaps to quickly locate x, y coordinates, tangents and perpendiculars, and you will be able to quickly layout floor plans, diagrams and more.
500 Floor Plans
Start from scratch or choose from any one of these pre-designed floor plans you can customise to make each one your own.
Over 7,000 2D Symbols and Parts
Choose from thousands of parts and symbols to effortlessly add to your design including electrical, mechanical, bathroom, kitchen, construction, LAN, CMOS, doors, windows, counters, fasteners, HVAC and more. Use the symbols browser to quickly locate just what you need, enhanced to now display symbol filenames.
Advanced Editing
Select an object and easily change the geometry in the Edit Objects window. All values appear as whole numbers or decimals and can be entered in any units desired.
Architectural Design Tools
Smart walls - TurboCAD Mac's self-healing walls automatically join, intersect and update to speed design. Walls auto-dimension as they are drawn, auto trim wall vertices, and allow for assignment of a hatch pattern and colour.
Parametric Doors ; Windows
Choose from 3 door styles (Single, Single Standard, or Double) and 3 window styles (Overlapping Sill, Standard Sill and Tight Sill) to drag-and-drop into a wall, and TurboCAD Mac will automatically create an opening in the wall. In addition, users can offset the door or window a prescribed distance from the end of the wall for precise placement.
Printing ; PDF
Use the page layout to view and print your design with up to 4 different angles on a single page. New options Page Layout offer greater control of how the printed document will look. Users can also save designs as single or multi-page PDFs in standard or custom sizes for sending via email.
File Interoperability
TurboCAD offers outstanding file compatibility with dozens of industry file formats. Opens and save in the latest .DWG and DXF file formats - 2010/2011.
Easily import your graphic design files into TurboCAD and turn them into precision CAD drawings with dimensions. Just as easily, you can export technical drawings from TurboCAD into desktop publishing formats, perfect for use in brochures and all other marketing materials.
Import or export from these popular formats: AutoCAD DWG/DXF, JPEG, Adobe EPS (export only), Adobe Illustrator, BMP, PICT, Spline (import only), TEXT, and Claris CAD (import only)
You can also use TurboCAD's powerful batch conversion tool to convert single images or groups of images to other file formats.
Box Contains
TurboCAD Mac Designer 2D v.6 (Mac)
Product Features
- Effortlessly Translate Your Ideas Into Reality - TurboCAD Mac Designer 2D delivers comprehensive drafting and design tools typically found in professional level CAD programs
- Complete Set of 2D Drafting Tools – TurboCAD Mac Designer offers a large selection of drafting tools for incredible design capabilities
- 500 Floor Plans – Start from scratch or choose from 500 pre-designed floor plans you can customise to make each one your own
- Start Designing Immediately – Import an existing CAD file in one of the many supported file formats including AutoCAD .DWG/.DXF
- New! Architectural Format of Objects and Dimensions - Now you have the ability to display dimensions in fractional feet and inches
- Improved! Incredible .DWG/.DXF Format Support – Open and save in the latest .DWG and .DXF file formats – 2010/2011
- Proven CAD Solution – Year after year, one of the industry’s most versatile and consumer friendly CAD applications for Mac
- Affordable CAD Excellence – Professional features for the 2D/3D CAD application you demand
- Easy to Learn and Use- Beginner, intermediate and advanced menus with context help in a familiar user style interface
- Perfect for: Beginners, Hobbyists and Students
Customer Reviews
Installation. At first I couldn't get the cd to install to my macbook air via "remote disc". Not the fault of IMSI, and I was very pleased that it was possible to download a trial version from their site, install and activate using the full product serial.
Now for the program itself. At first I was met with an incredibly ugly interface. Completely grey with some very old school Windows 95 style "paint" icons. Essentially to the beginner this looks like ms paint with an array of extremely varied geometric functions. On first play, it seemed pretty easy to start drawing. Essentially you click points to chain them together. you can drop walls, windows, however it isn't made clear how to do more advanced things, like see from a 3d-perspective. Or increase the height of a wall so that you can see it properly from a side view.
Add to this the frustration of not being able to work out how to use the included 500 floor plans with the "drafting assistant" and you have some very frustrating software. It might just be that I haven't used the program for enough time, but it NEEDS to be more user friendly, particularly with it being an introductory beginner's type software. There is no excuse for a manual that lists features for ALL the different TurboCAD products which means plenty of the documentation is immediately irrelevant because I'm not using the pro version. When it's a tome over 500 pages long. You have users that may give up before giving it a chance.
So essentially, the interface needs updating, user friendliness too needs improving with even simply things like tutorial guides, and wizards. The software is probably great at it's core job, but it's not well exposed to beginners like me to CAD software.
Three drawbacks made me hate this software, it cannot open .dwg files, I really need 3D drafting which it doesnt have and it just doesnt work intuitively, its for a Mac but the interface seems all Windows to me.
TurboCAD Mac Designer 2D v.6 (Mac)
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