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TurboCAD Professional 14 Platinum Edition is our
most advanced CAD solution with the unparalleled design power and
productivity of TurboCAD Pro, plus advanced tools for mechanical
and architectural design. Integrated 2D drafting, 3D surface and
ACIS® solid modeling, and LightWorks® photorealistic rendering
offer dramatic visual results while geometric and dimensional
constraint management tools, and superior file format
compatibility, offer added power and precision.
Complex designs can be created in a few simple clicks with new
mechanical design tools including the new Flange Tool as well as
tools for Tube Bending and Tube Extending. Our Parametric Hole
Tool makes inserting holes into objects simple and now includes a
new Boss Hole Type. Utilise the Improved Bend Tool to create
models previously not possible and enhance the constraint power
of TurboCAD Pro with 2D Pattern and Linear Pattern Constraints.
Speed architectural design with the extensive collection of
architectural parametric object types and shapes for doors,
windows, stairs, and railings. Use the edit profile tool to
customise any existing parametric door or window shape. Plus, the
new Style Manager Palette lets you define styles and parameters
for architectural object types, schedules, text and AEC
dimension, including how objects are defined, look and behave.
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Features
Revolutionary 'intelligent' tools that let you focus on design,
not the design tools.
New Smart Dimension Tool makes for faster, more
efficient annotation of your drawing, automatically recognizing
and creating the correct dimension type for:
- Linear dimensions for parallel and orthogonal lines
- Angular dimensions for any angle
- Radial Dimensions for arcs
- Diameter Dimensions for circles
- Even add dimensions to 3D objects in Rendered or Hidden Line
modes.
New Geometric Alignment Aids - Improved snap
indicators and superior auxiliary line presentation, as well as
other snap advances
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Improved Tangent Snaps
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Improved Projection Snaps
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Improved Perpendicular Line Snaps
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Improved Parallel Line Snaps
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Improved Tangent from Arc Snaps
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New Extended Node Editing for Cubes, Cylinder,
and Cones

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New Compound Profiles in Blocks - A major
enhancement to block handling, Compound Profiles can be
generated, stored, and edited in a block section, saving
valuable time.

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Improved Selection Info Palette puts all
information about an object in one place and is now integrated
with the Part Tree - no more jumping back and forth between
palettes.
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New Dimension and 3D Layers are now created by
default, so you don't have to think about it. When your image
gets too cluttered, simply turn off the layer until you need
it.
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Region Improvement - Creating a region from
selected="selected" objects or by 2D Boolean operations is now
up to 8 times faster.
Design, Draft & Present
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New LightWorks® v7.5 Photorealistic Rendering
Engine
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New Terrain tool - Want to place your home or
building design on a hillside or uneven terrain? It's a snap
with the new Terrain tool. Create terrains from scratch or by
importing Triangular Irregular Network (TIN) data from standard
file formats.
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New options to display only foreground hidden
lines Open up a world of presentation possibilities by
overlaying hidden line renders on top of draft and quality
rendered images.
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New Chamfer Angle Option - Specify the exact
angle to be used in the Chamfer Command.
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Improved Multiline Text - Indent lines and
paragraphs or create any number of tab stops.
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Delayed Paperspace Render - Don't be slowed
down waiting for a render to happen. With TurboCAD 14, you
control when and how your viewports in paperspace will render.
Step Ahead with Architectural
Design
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New
Parametric Stairs - Like doors & windows, stairs
are fully parametric - Material, Stair Dimensions, including
width, riser height, tread depth, riser count and how the stair
terminates (with tread, riser or landing).
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New Wall
Dimension Tool - Quickly assign dimensions to any
straight wall, including dimension thickness.
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New Window
& Door Schedules automatically generate. Adding a
window or door into drawing dynamically updates the schedule
and you have complete control over how text will
appear.
Included in the
Architectural version is the New additional
Architectural Pack
Our industrial
architectural toolset includes an edit profile tool, additional
parametric windows and door types and shapes, new
multi-landing, spiral, and U-shaped parametric stair styles
plus:
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New
Parametric Rails complement new parametric stairs.
Define hundreds of rail types from location, post position,
and extension parameters. Set automatically or manually,
offset and justify locations and material.
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New Style
Manager for Architectural Designs Access sets of
define styles and parameters for Architectural Object types,
Schedules, Text and AEC Dimensions. Define a custom style
guide and manage how architectural objects are defined and
how non-design objects (text, dimensions, schedules) look
& behave.
Innovate with Mechanical Design
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New ACIS®
v16 Solid Modeling Engine Upgraded from ACIS v15,
you'll find many more improvements like improved healing when
importing models and more.
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New Branch
Lofting for one "trunk" and two or more 'branches'.
New Branched Loft Tool manages both simple and compound
profiles, minimizing what once took several
operations.
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New Face to
Face Lofting - Select two faces on different 3D
objects and instantly build a lofting body to unite
them.
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New
Constraint Tool Option Angular Dimension for Arcs.
Change the value of the angular dimension and watch it
automatically update.
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Improved
Part Tree lets you suppress any operation and delay
update for quick "what if" scenarios. You can even hide
portions of the Part Tree for re-rendering.
Better Compatibility
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AutoCAD® 2007 Support offers easy file sharing
and file compatibility with updated DXF/DWG file import export.
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New Google SketchUp Support allows you to
import your SketchUp 5 conceptual design files into TurboCAD,
the quickly create precision designs with TurboCAD's advanced
tools.
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Improved Linear Dimensions Import from DWG -
Better, more accurate conversion of linear dimensions from an
AutoCAD drawing into a TurboCAD drawing.
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Benefits
This product includes the full featured TurboCAD Pro 14, with
hundreds of 2D and 3D design tools, plus these additional
Architectural & Mechanical Design features;
Additional Architectural Design Features
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New Style Manager for Architectural Designs -
Define styles and parameters for architectural object types,
schedules, text and AEC dimensions. Define a style guide and
manage how objects are defined, look and behave.
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Edit Profile Tool - customize an existing
parametric Door or Window shape.
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Parametric Doors, Windows, & Stairs
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New Parametric Rails - This new parametric
object type lets you define hundreds of rail types and set
location, post position, and extension parameters.
Additional Mechanical Design Features
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New! Tube Bend Tool - Make cylinders
incredibly flexible. Simply choose where you want to
be
nd to create models previously not
possible.
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New! Tube Extend Tool - Simply extend a tube
and bend it in just a few clicks.
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New! Flange Tool - Works with our new Smart
Dimensioning to determine the exact position and size of a
flange, speeding design.
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Improved Bend Tool with New Options - Rapidly
create accurate bends measuring from a specific distance from
the edge. Set the axis, angle and radius and let TurboCAD do
the rest.
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Parametric Holes with New Boss Hole Type -
Create parametric holes in objects in a few easy steps and
modify the properties at any time including a new option for
easy parametric cylindrical bosses.
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Constraints - The TurboCAD Pro 14 Mechanical
Edition expands on TurboCAD Pro's constraint manager to include
2D Pattern Constraints that can be used to create a 3D object.
In addition, Linear Pattern Constraints retain the distances
between objects so when you adjust the distance between one,
all others will update.
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Plus
enjoy Enhanced Parametric Editing
and our Facet Offset Tool
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Reviews
"It's quite astonishing. I knew TurboCAD was inexpensive but
didn't realise just what a bargain it is."
"...there is actually a hell of a lot going for TurboCAD in both
price and features."
"I haven't mentioned the price yet, but at £525, it's almost half
the price of LT which wouldn't know a staircase from a polyline.
It's also only £27 more than the vanilla vesion of TurboCAD Pro
14! The Platinum version, which has absolutely everything is only
£10 more. It's quite astonishing. I knew TurboCAD was inexpensive
but didn't realise just what a bargain it is. " AEC
Magazine August 2007
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