A smart choice for all-purpose 2D/3D CAD design


TurboCAD Deluxe V17 gives you everything you need for CAD design. Work with unlimited design options with hundreds of professional drafting and design tools, incredible file support, video and interactive tutorials, photo-realistic rendering, and drag-and-drop symbols.  It's everything you'll need to create perfect presentation-ready home plans, technical drawings, mechanical designs, illustrations, school projects, and much more.




Award-Winning Technology

• Architectural - Powerful tools tailored to architects, builders, and civil engineers.
• Mechanical - Innovative tools, too, tailored to mechanical engineers and designers.
• Visual - Stunning, easy-to-use rendering and visualization technology by Lightworks allows anyone to create photo-realistic masterpieces.
• Compatible - Supports the most complete set of industry-standard formats, including outstanding compatibility with AutoCAD and Auto CAD LT files.  Import and export XREFs with DWG/DXF for great interoperability, and import and export Google SketchUp .SKP files.
• Green Design - Earth-friendly innovation is supported by pre-drawn eco-friendly details, dozens of "green" materials, and access to the Green Building Design Center online.
• Easy - Features beginner, intermediate, and advanced modes, context sensitive Quick Tips, and a user-friendly Windows-like interface.  The Page Set Up Wizard and Snaps and Alignment Aids make it every simpler.
• Complete - Everything you need to create presentation-ready home plans, technical drawings, mechanical designs, artistic illustrations, crafts, school projects, and more.

TurboCAD Architectural

• House Wizard - This big, time-saving tool automatically creates a room-by-room design of a home, complete with closets, doors, garages, and even decks.
• Intelligent 2D/3D Walls - Self-healing walls automatically join and intersect and display dimensions with a single click.  Wall openings are automatic when you add doors, windows, or arches with dimensions appearing as you drop them into your wall for precise placement.
• Customizable Doors and Windows - Using parametric architectural objects means you can scale doors and windows as well as customize with materials and colors.
• Hatch Patterns and Fills - Choose from over 70 hatch patterns (including colors) to visually identify various components of your drawing.  Bitmaps, like your company logo, or gradient fills may also be used with transparency.

Visually Stunning Presentations

• Materials Library - Choose or create your own 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 including the ability to assign luminance values to objects.  Cast hard and soft shadows and reflect accurately off reflective surfaces with ray tracing, allowing you to create photo-realistic designs. Fog and scattering mediums are also supported.
• Multiple Drawings/Multiple Paper Space - Build multiple drawings, each with multiple paper spaces and independent settings (grid units, etc.).  Use tabs to quickly switch between paper spaces.
• Design Director - Organize, access, and explore design alternatives easily in the Design Director Palette.  Use powerful layer filters, and create layer, light, and camera templates for use on different designs.

TurboCAD Mechanical

• 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 - Create a 3D object by revolving any 2D profile around a central axis.
• Chain Polyline - Allows for faster design by allowing you to connect intersecting objects or portions of objects into a single polyline, which can then be extruded, revolved, or swept.
• Extrude - Pull complex 3D models from simple 2D shapes.
• Sweeps - Extrude shapes along a path, perfect for irregular objects.
• Automatic, Editable Meshes - Easily create complex meshes by entering coordinate information or importing matrix data from Excel (not included), then view, edit, and render.
• Color Transparency - Screen back the color of an object in the foreground to display or emphasize hidden detail in the background.

Intelligent and Innovative

• Easy Pop-Up Toolbars - Right-clicking  in TurboCAD brings up the local menu which include customizable "Pop-up" toolbars giving you faster access to the most commonly used tools.
• DWG and PDF Publishing - Save your drawing as DWG and PDF document for easy sharing.  Plus, export paper spaces, customize your fonts and define your paper widths and heights.
• Powerful Xref Manager - Manage external references (Xrefs) like a parts catalog in your TurboCAD drawing.  File formats that can be opened and imported may be used as an Xref.  Xrefs can also be exported with DWG or DXF drawings.
• Context-Sensitive Help - Context-sensitive help provides the fastest possible way to get help for any desired tool.  Simply place the cursor over any tool then press "F1."  This instantly takes you to that tool's explanation in the electronic user guide.
• Floating and Shaped Viewports - TurboCAD brings you the ability to create viewports of model space in multiple paper spaces.  With this features, you can edit any of your viewports by changing their shape or the layers that they display.  And now you can even render your model from within a viewpoint.

Usability and Interface

• Fully Customizable User Interface and Preferences
• Easy, Handle-Based Editing
• Transparent and Bit-Mapped Fills
• Draw Order by Layer
• Layer Filters
• Object SNAP Prioritization
• Video and Interactive Tutorials
• Paper and Model Space

Architectural

• House Wizard
• Self-Healing Walls
• Doors, Windows, and Markers
• Schedule Tool and Wizard
• Self-Aligning Blocks that Insert into Walls
• Dynamic Dimensions for Doors and Windows
• Roof Tool

2D Drafting and Detailing Tools

• Wide Selection of Basic 2D Drafting Tools
• Auto Tools (Scaling, Sizing, Positions, Rotating, and Movement)
• Smart and Quick Dimension Tools
• Layer Properties Manager
• Bezier and Fair Curves
• Text Editing
• Index Color Support

3D Drawing and Editing Tools

• Assembly Tools
• Boolean Operations - Add, Subtract, Intersect
• 3D Primitives, Meshes, and Splines
• Extrude, Revolve, Twist, and Sweep Editing Tools

Photo-Realistic Rendering and Visualization

• 3D Photo-Realistic Rendering
• Gradient Fills
• Luminance of Objects, Shadow Casting
• OpenGL and Hidden Line Rendering
• Ray Tracing
• Customizable Material Library
• Customizable Environments Library

Interoperability - File Import and Export

• AutoCAD .DWG and .DXF Compatibility
• Google SketchUp  (.SKP) Import and Export
• 19 Import and Open File Formats
• 12 Export, Save As, Publish File Formats

Content

• Xref, Blocks and Block Editor Support
• Symbols, Part Library

Added Bonus!  Includes CAD fundamentals video tutorials, a $50 value - yours free with purchase.  It's easy and fun to learn TurboCAD with over 200 interactive tutorials.  It's like having your own personal tutor to help you get the most out of your TurboCAD software.




Import and Export

• DWG - AutoCAD native format
• DWF - Autodesk Drawing Web format
• DXF - Drawing Exchange Format
• 3DS - Autodesk 3D Studio Format
• CGM - Computer Graphics Metafile
• DGN - Intergraph Microstation
• EPS - Adobe PostScript
• PLT - Plotter file format language
• Raster - Reference 2D multiple formats
• SKP - Google SketchUp
• TCW - TurboCAD native format
• TCT - TurboCAD Drawing Template
• WMF - Windows Metafile
• WRL - VRML Worlds
• WRZ - VRML Worlds

Import Only

• 3DV - VRML Worlds
• DC, DCD - DesignCAD format
• FCD, FCW - FastCAD
• GEO- VRML Worlds

Export Only

• BMP - Windows Bitmap format
• DAE - COLLADA
• GIF - Graphics Interchange Format (with Alpha Channel Support)
• JPG - JPEG
• PDF - Adobe Page Description format
• PNG - Raster graphic format (with Alpha Channel Support)

• Windows XP with 512 MB of RAM
• Vista, Windows 7 with 1 GB of RAM
• Pentium IV processor
• 350 MB of free hard disk space depending on accessory applications installed
• 64+ MB of swap space
• Super VGA (1024 x 768) display
• High Color (16 bit) graphics card
• 4x DVD-ROM drive with 32 bit drivers
• Adobe Reader v6 or higher to view documentation
• Internet connection with Microsoft Internet Explorer required for Internet registration
• Macromedia Flash 8 plug-in required for on-line tutorials