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TurboCAD® Pro 14 Architectural Edition is a
professional CAD solution with the superior design power and
productivity of TurboCAD Pro, plus advanced tools for
architectural design. Integrated 2D drafting, 3D surface and
solid modeling, and 3D photorealistic rendering offer dramatic
visual results while new smart dimensioning, wall dimension tool,
dynamic window and door schedules, and superior file format
compatibility provide added power and precision.
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
customize 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 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.
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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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