A Complete Set of 2D Drafting and Detailing Tools 

TurboCAD Designer employs a large selection of line, arc, curve, and spline tools, so that you’ve always got the right tool for the job. When used with TurboCAD’s snaps, modification tools, and drawing aids you will be able to quickly draft and document your designs with no restrictions.

TurboCAD Fundamental Drawing Tools:

• 14 basic line tools including irregular polygons, perpendicular, parallel, and tangent lines
• 8 double line tools (in addition to self-healing architectural wall tools)
• 8 multiline tools including polyline and polygon tools
• 11 circle tools including 3 methods for drawing ellipses
• 13 arc tools including tangentcies, point fitting methods, and 3 elliptical arcs
• 5 point tools from dots to crosses and even stars
• 6 curve tools including Bezier, freehand sketch, and convert to curve
• Index color and true color support
• Custom brush style editor for combining colors, gradients, hatches, and transparency

TurboCAD Drawing Aids:

• 9 types of Ray and constructions lines for projecting non-printable construction lines
• 13 basic object snaps with controllable snap priority including parametric Divide By segment snaps
• Extended ortho and apparent intersection for geometric aids
• A fully parametric grid
• Easily parameterized ortho angular system​

Annotation Tools

Dimensioning and Text are vital to any CAD Drawing. TurboCAD Designer includes:

• Smart, Quick and Baseline which allow you to dimension automatically.
• Associative Dimensions - freely move, rotate, or resize the associated objects and the dimension will retain its position relative to the objects, and the dimension text will change automatically to reflect changes.
• Precise Dimensioning up to 10 decimal points.
• Formats include: Architectural, Fractional, Engineering, Decimal, and Surveyor.
• Multi-Text formatting and scaling options
• Linear and angular dimension tools now allow users to specify a fixed length for line extensions and the value for that length.
• The ability to globally define dimensions at the drawing level
• Pick Point & Path Hatching, Bitmap 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.

Handle-Based Editing

Save time and draw more accurately, more quickly. TurboCAD® provides handles for scaling, but also for rotating and moving objects.

Flexible User Interface

Dis play tools with full expia nations in the beginner mode. Switch to intermediate or expert mode to gain screen space as you become more familiar with TurboCAD.

Setup Wizard

Breeze through questions designed to help you define your drawing's size and orientation, units of measurement, printing scale and viewpoints.

Dimension Tools

lnclude Smart, Quick and Baseline which allow you to dimension automatically and more!

Pick Point & Path Hatching, Bitmap Fills, and Transparency

urboCAD includes support of Hatch Patterns, color gradients and control of image transparency, choose from over 70 hatch patterns (including colors), unlimited bit-mapped fills and 100 levels of transparency, to better visually identify various components of your drawing.

Comprehensive layer management

Gives more options to control the appearance, editing, and printing of the drawing entities. Set visibility, line style, color and more to create professional drawings.

Publish to PDF and import and export popular CAD and graphics formats

Save your Designs for sharing to this application standard format - includes support of both Model and Paper Spaces; insure accurate 'round-tripping' with industry-standard AutoCAD DWG.

Compatibility and file sharing

Whether you’re a team of one or many, you’ll have the interoperability needed to collaborate. We’ve ensured that TurboCAD is compatible with a wide variety of popular CAD and Graphics formats. You will be able to deliver files that can be opened and edited by users of AutoCAD® and other popular design software. Your team will be running like a well-oiled machine.

• TurboCAD provides compatibility with AutoCAD® DWG and DXF files, from R12 to 2022
• VMRL Worlds Import/Export
• PDF Export

ARCHITECTURAL

AEC grid keep label value

A new property ‘’Keep label value” has been added to the AEC Grids. The new option adds the ability to save the axis name without changing it, regardless of the order of the axes in the grid. With this option enabled, the user can automatically move the axis to any position without having to rename it.

Wall/window/door tools improvement

A new local menu option “Anchor to AEC Grid” has been added to the walls, windows, and doors. When this option is enabled, the ends of the architectural object anchor to the AEC grid. The end position of the object changes in accordance with edits made to the AEC grid.

PERFORMANCE, USER INTERFACE & USABILITY

Undo manager palette

A new Palette “Undo Manager Palette” has been added to the list of palettes. The palette displays all the steps performed and allows the user to switch back and forth. The steps breakdown allows users to switch from one drawing state to another with a single click bypassing intermediate states.

Render studio enhancement

Render Studio Enhancements include UI scale support and Advanced Render dialog updates.

Search option for drawing and program

A new Search bar has been added to both the Program Setup and Drawing Setup dialog boxes which allows users to find the various options contained in each dialog. The search bar makes it easy for the users to search for different options available in the whole Drawing Setup or Program Setup dialog boxes rather than finding them manually.

Keyboard report enhancement

A few enhancements have been made to the Keyboard Report. Row highlighting on mouse hover, local menu description, and command icons for Default (dark) and Classic (light) themes have been added to the report.

TurboCAD content server palette

This new palette, which links to the new TurboCAD Content Server gives the user online access to hundreds of thousands of different CAD and graphics content, which can then be easily dragged and dropped into your TurboCAD drawing. Currently, the Palette can access more than 700,000 mechanical, parametric parts. These symbols fully support international standards such as DIN, KR, ISO, ANSI, and ASME. Over time, additional content, including House Plans, architectural details, and Materials, will be added to the server, and therefore accessible via the TurboCAD Content Server Palette.

2D DRAFTING AND EDITING

Ability to now interrupt wireframe GDI draw

TurboCAD now has the ability to interrupt native GDI draw by pressing the Esc key. This is very helpful while editing a large drawing. Previously, without this ability to interrupt, the user would have to wait to finish a GDI draw after each action. A Progress Indicator has also been added.

Smart dimension tool improvement

The Smart dimensioning tool is now fully associative between Model and Paper spaces. Changes made to a Smart Dimension in Model Spaces will automatically be updated inside of any Viewport in Paper space which includes that Smart Dimension.

TurboCAD Platinum is delivered in a 64-bit version to take full advantage of your hardware’s available computer memory to load, process, and render CAD files.

CPU TYPE

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

64-BIT SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

• Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8* 64-bit, Windows 7 (64-bit), Vista (64-bit)
• 8 GB RAM

RECOMMENDED:

• Your experience with TurboCAD Designer will be greatly enhanced with a newer generation, higher speed CPU, 8+ GB RAM