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TurboCAD LTE Pro v4 Overview
TurboCAD LTE is specifically designed to be a companion product to AutoCAD, or a replacement for AutoCAD LT.
Professional 2.5D Drafting and Detailing
TurboCAD LTE Pro is the advanced version
of TurboCAD LTE. More than an AutoCAD LT® work-alike, it’s a
professional 2.5D application that provides all the features you
look for in AutoCAD LT, plus many more power features CAD
professionals want. Plus great .DWG and .SKP compatibility make
TurboCAD LTE Pro the perfect stand-alone solution, replacement
product, or companion seat to AutoCAD and SketchUp with a seamless
and integrated workflow.
And much, much more!
With so many new, innovative features,
TurboCAD LTE Pro is more like the AutoCAD LT upgrade you've been
looking for:
Better drafting with a Powerful Drafting Palette
- Better detailing (create
associative, 2D views or hatched sections, even from xrefs;
cross sections of cross sections; etc)
- Hyper-Accelerated Graphic
Performance with GPU-based graphic cards
- Range of intelligent, ACA/ADT
compatible architectural objects, including self-healing walls
(straight and curved), doors, windows, muntins, roofs, rails,
slabs, and stairs
- Self-aligning blocks
- House Wizard
- Style Manager
- Parametric Parts Manager
- Geometric and Dimensional
Constraints with updated D-Cubed v57 DCM engine
- Drawing Compare
- Hatch Pattern Creator
- Transparent fills
- Support for Xrefs
- PDF Underlay
- Draw order by layer PLUS
- Ruby Scripting
- Superior workflow with Google™
SketchUp and SketchUp Pro
- Open & save .DWG, .DXF, and .DWF
formats from AutoCAD R14 to 2011
- Software Development Kit with
samples and .NET support
- Premium Support
- ... and much, much more!
Low Learning Curve
TurboCAD LTE Pro is designed to minimize
switching costs for AutoCAD LT users, and protect your intellectual
property in existing drawings. Menus, menu items, tools, and icons
are easily recognizable. Familiar keystrokes, command line, palette
interfaces and even an intelligent cursor have been incorporated for
an intuitive, comfortable feel right out of the box. Plus,
exceptional .DWG compatibility allows you to continue to profit from
your existing drawings. So you’ll be up to speed in no time,
immediately benefitting from the advances in productivity TurboCAD
LTE Pro has to offer.
Affordable Innovations Enhance Productivity
TurboCAD LTE Pro goes beyond AutoCAD LT
to provide more advanced drafting and detailing capabilities. It
understands and can import 3D files to create 2D planar construction
views to complete your working drawing documentation. TurboCAD LTE
Pro supports external references, or "Xrefs," making editing more
efficient, and helping to keep drawings in synch. And support for
customization through Ruby scripting and the Software Developers’
Kit allows for all sorts of routines, features, or full-fledged
vertical applications to be developed and added right to the user
interface.
TurboCAD LTE Pro also excels at parametric design with features such
as parametric constraints, scripted parametric parts, architectural
tools, and parametric AEC objects. Architectural users will
appreciate the House Builder Wizard, architectural style manager,
and intelligent self-healing walls that are ADT compatible. Plus,
all users will benefit from lightning fast zoom and pan navigation
performance thanks to graphic acceleration that can handle even the
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UI & Perfromance
Familiar User Interface
No need to re-learn what
you already know. Install, start, and get up and running
immediately without looking back. TurboCAD LTE’s
familiar UI lets you concentrate on creating design and
not how to use the software.
- Toolbars - Standard
toolbar and icons function the same way as AutoCAD
LT. Simply click and let the drawing begin.
- Dynamic Input -
Familiar heads up display with dynamic input at
cursor.
- Command line - Need
the command line? No worries, we have it. Common
keyboard aliases and quick keys are already included
too and fully customizable. Even the ESC key works
as expected.
- Palettes - Tool
palettes provide a fast way to access common and
customizable tools with a familiar look and feel.
- Menus - Pull down a
menu and find the exact command you want with no
surprises. Call it CAD intuition.
Hyper-Accelerated
Graphic Performance
Increase zoom and pan
performance so you don’t have to wait during a moment of
inspiration. The powerful drawing engine takes advantage
of GPU-based graphics cards for lightning fast wireframe
displays. (See system requirements for more details.)
The Redway Redsdk drawing engine in TurboCAD LTE Pro
goes beyond available features in our basic TurboCAD LTE
software with:
- The ability to
customize the auto regeneration mode for arcs, brush
styles, construction lines, curves, line styles, and
any other black or white colored objects
- Support of the
visual settings for the selection highlight in
Redsdk mode.
- Support of Hidden
Line, Draft Render, and Wireframe modes.
Support for Xrefs
All of the file formats that
may be opened and imported, with the exception of bitmap
images, may be used as an external reference (Xref). The
designer may continue to work in AutoCAD or SketchUp,
for example, while the drafting continues in TurboCAD
LTE. This helps to minimize duplication of geometry,
thereby making editing more efficient and helping to
keep drawings in synch. Xrefs also help keep file sizes
down when you use the same large components in multiple
drawings, and allow concurrent sharing of data.
PDF Underlay
Boost productivity with the
new ability to import a vector PDF drawing and use it as
a tracing layer with snaps.
Database Tools
Attach data to any object
and extract data from any object. Organize, compile
output to tables, spreadsheets or databases. You can
even extract attributes, including blocks and xrefs, and
show visible properties only.
ePack File Packaging
TurboCAD LTE Pro can collect
and assemble all external resources and entities
attached to a drawing into a common folder with the
drawing for easy distribution, similar to AutoCAD's
eTransmit feature.
Purge tool
TurboCAD LTE Pro makes it
easy to remove unused objects from Model Space and Paper
Space with this simple yet powerful new tool.
Draw Order by Layer PLUS
Layers can be assigned a
draw order numerically. The setting, "Apply general
property changes to all tool presets" allows you to Draw
By Layer and more. When changes are made to the
properties of a selected tool, those changes are made to
all tools. The result is a more AutoCAD® like workflow.
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Drafting & Detailing
Fast Drafting & Detailing
TurboCAD LTE Pro is rich
in fundamental drawing tools and drawing aids that speed
design. A variety of visual styles are also available
so that materials, fills, even transparent fills and
gradients can to be used to add effects and visual
clarity. Lines and custom line styles allow for color or
width by layer. Polyline segments may have differing
starting and ending line widths.
Other speedy features
include the quick and easy creation of views and
viewports of any size and shape, and access to extensive
paper space and printing capabilities, marker and
schedule tools, leaders, multi-leaders, dimension tools,
and symbols content.
Extraordinary
Drafting Palette
The Drafting Palette is
one of the most powerful features for advanced drafting
and detailing in TurboCAD LTE Pro. It works with solid
or surface models, turning 3D designs into associative
2D views and detailed sections in a single click, even
when working on an Xref. This means your sectional views
and elevations in layout (paper space) will update
automatically as the model changes.
These object views can
also be dimensioned and annotated rapidly.
For added productivity,
Drafting Palette items may be locked, essentially
caching them until unlocked. This allows modeling to
continue at speed – particularly important with larger
models that have numerous sections, elevations, and
views. Each section may be regenerated individually or
all simultaneously.
Powerful
Parametric Constraints
The D-cubed constraint
engine in TurboCAD LTE Pro gives you greater control and
productivity, empowering your creativity. By setting up
geometric and dimensional constraints, you can enforce
design intent, making it easier to very quickly modify a
design. Use them to get more done, create part families
faster, incorporate red-line changes more quickly, and
have the flexibility to evaluate different designs with
ease.
Geometric constraints
determine the relationship of two pieces of geometry
with each other. Geometric constraints supported by
TurboCAD LTE Pro include:
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point to point
coincident
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point to line coincident
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parallel
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perpendicular
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tangential
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concentric
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symmetrical
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horizontal
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vertical
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mid-point constraint
Dimensional constraints
determine the size of geometric entities. Dimensional
constraints supported by TurboCAD LTE Pro include:
- equal radius
- equal length
- equal distance
- distance
- length
- angle
Parametric Parts
Manager
Create and consume parts
that remain parametrically controlled even after
insertion into your drawing. There is also a method to
draw variably constrained parts and convert them to
parametric parts using a wizard. Because the parts can
be saved individually, like a symbol, libraries of .PPM
objects can be created, shared, and reused from project
to project.
Easy Design
Director
This palette streamlines
work and enhances productivity with advanced controls
for Layers, Layer Filters, creating Layer Sets, setting
and saving Work Planes, controlling Named Views, and
more.
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Architectural
Self-Healing Walls (ACA/ADT
Compatible)
Self-healing walls (straight and curved; ends and
intersections) accelerate floorplan design. With
self-healing walls, there is no longer a need to re-edit
the wall after inserting a window or door, as the wall
will automatically heal to incorporate these
architectural objects. Healing also works when these
objects are removed from a wall. Tops of walls will even
modify automatically when the roof slope is changed.
Intelligent
(Parametric), Attribute-Rich Architectural Objects:
TurboCAD LTE Pro offers
Architectural Objects that are all fully parametric,
meaning that all geometric (i.e. height, width, depth)
and style (shape, type, material) attributes can be
easily adjusted when the object is selected. Doors and
windows (self-aligning), stairs, and rails can be
further customized with application of materials to the
different parts of each object.
- Component Walls
- Bottom wall modifier
- Doors
- Windows
- Door and Window
muntins
- Roofs
- Slabs
- Stairs
- Rails
- Insert a window into
a wall and adjust in seconds
- Change a single door
into a double door and adjust in seconds
Dimensions
Dynamic dimensions are
displayed when doors/windows are inserted (showing
distance from door/window to wall ends) for easier
placement. Plus, corresponding fields are added to the
Inspector Bar.
Self-Trimming and
Aligning Blocks
Create any custom block such
as a revolving door or column block and place it into a
wall object. The block will automatically clean-up (trim
or heal) when placed, moved, or removed from the wall.
Blocks also correctly aligned when inserted into
TurboCAD LTE Pro ADT-compatible walls. Doors and Windows
also offer the ability to attach a block(s) via the
style manager to a selected door or window style.
A "Sync block attributes" button in the Block Palette
lets you select any block(s) and press the Sync button
to reset attributes in all block(s) instances. The
attribute's value will be stored if the attribute
definition with its corresponding tag exists in the
block and all attribute properties will be reset from
the block attribute definition.
House Wizard
Automate the preliminary
room-by-room design of an entire house and generates a
floor plan. Drop in closets, a garage, entry and
passageways, even decking!
Style Manager
Use the style manager for
complete design control of the style of each of the
components of your architectural drawing; including
dimensions, text, and all architectural object types.
The Style Manager includes pre-defined, fully parametric
styles for doors, windows, walls, dimensions, schedules,
tables and text. These pre-defined styles can be
customized to your preferences and new styles can be
easily added.
Architectural Sections/Elevations (3D-to-2D
Documentation)
TurboCAD LTE Pro saves time
when converting in 3D-to-2D. Architectural objects are
ADT compatible. They include a full set of 3D properties
that can befully exposed and utilized for creating 2D
elevations and sectional views.
Architectural Markers
(Self Incrementing)
Insert markers to number
objects such as rooms, doors or windows in your
architectural plans. Great for creating legends, call
outs, or simply mapping points and adding notes to your
drawings. Four different marker styles are included.
Schedule Tool and Wizard
Create a schedule displaying
the number of Doors and Windows used in your drawing.
The wizard allows you to create and fill the schedule
table with drawing information faster and easier. Adding
a window or door into a drawing dynamically updates the
schedule. You even have complete control over how the
text will appear.
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Compatible & Programmable
Excellent Workflow
Need to share CAD files with others?. Open
and save .DWG, .DXF, and .DWF formats from AutoCAD R14 to 2011.
Open and Save As .DWG (AutoCAD®
Release 14 to 2011)
Save ACA/ADT-compatible objects and
parameters for intelligent use in AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT. (TurboCAD
LTE’s .DWG files with ACA/ADT compatible objects can be brought into
AutoCAD products and retain their self-healing properties. For example,
bring a TurboCAD LTE .DWG file with walls and blocks into AutoCAD LT and
walls continue to self-heal within AutoCAD LT as those blocks are moved.
TurboCAD LTE is a great way to head-start your project.)
Open .SKP (Google™ SketchUp™)
Enjoy superior workflow with Google™
SketchUp and SketchUp Pro .SKP files up to version 8. TurboCAD LTE
imports all visible geometry, layers, and components. It also converts
all components to TurboCAD LTE blocks to optimize drawing performance.
You can even create a paperspace from each SketchUp scene, thereby
saving time by automatically creating viewports with the correct layer
visibility and 2D or perspective view properties. These paperspace views
are also immediately ready for dimensioning and annotation. Develop
construction documents quickly from SketchUp 6, 7 and 8 models.
Support for many more CAD & Graphic file
formats
TurboCAD LTE supports over 30 of the latest
industry file formats. In addition to .DWG and .SKP, you can open and
Edit .DXF and .DWF files. You can also open and/or save As .IGES, .3DM
(Rhino®), .3DS (3ds Max®), .STL, .SAT, .STEP, .OBJ, & .DAE (Collada), so
mechanical drawings can be brought in for advanced detailing projects or
translations from almost any MCAD application. This means that beyond
AutoCAD & Google SketchUp, TurboCAD LTE Pro is an excellent companion to
SolidWorks, SolidEdge, Pro/E, and other CAD programs.
File Conversion Tool for Batch File
Conversion
With the Batch File Converter utility you
may select files of one type and convert them to any of the file formats
supported for saving. This includes converting a dozen .DWG files to
.png, or converting .2CD to .DXF 2003 format files – all in one step.
Ruby Scripting
Ruby is a programming language that anyone
can use to write plug-ins (scripts) for TurboCAD LTE Pro. This scripting
language is also compatible with SketchUp Ruby Scripts. Ruby Scripts can
add tools, simplify multi-step operations, and otherwise improve the way
you work with TurboCAD LTE. Use the Ruby Scripting Console for writing
program scripts suitable for both mechanical and architectural design.
Software Development Kit
The Software Development Kit (SDK) supports
the development of new tools, functions, and behaviors for use in
TurboCAD LTE Pro. Specialized tools for vertical applications can be
created and added. Even commercial plug-in applications may be developed
and sold. Documentation, samples and .NET support is included. |
System Requirements Minimum System Requirements
- Pentium IV Processor.
- Microsoft® Windows XP -
512 MB RAM, Microsoft® Vista 1 GB RAM, Microsoft®
Windows 7
- 1 GB RAM
- 300 MB of free hard disk
space depending on accessory applications installed
- 64+ MB of swap space
- Super VGA (1024 x768)
display
- High Color (16 bit)
graphics card
- 4X DVD-ROM drive with 32
bit drivers
Your experience will be greatly enhanced with newer
generation, higher speed CPU, 2-4 GB RAM, and larger display
resolution.
Optional GPU-accelerated wireframe render mode requires a
supported graphic accelerator. The latest video drivers are
typically required. Newer boards with more VRAM generally
provide greater performance. Most cards in the NVIDIA®
Quadro FX 1000 series, GeForce FX series, GeForce 6, 7, and
8 series, plus AMD ATI Radeon family, ATI FireGL X family,
and FireGL V family of cards are supported; as well as
INTEL® Integrated graphics series GMA 3000 and GMA X3000.
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