2D & 3D Text Editing
Create and edit text without leaving your drawing. Plus, choose from thousands of colors for text and background.
Floating and Shaped Viewports
Create viewports of Model space in multiple Paper spaces. Edit your viewports by changing their shape or the layers that they display, with the ability to turn on/off layers per viewport. You can even render within a viewport.
Multiple Drawings/Multiple Paper Space
Build multiple drawings, each with multiple paper spaces, with independent settings (grid units, etc.); then use tabs to quickly switch between paper spaces.
Convert to Arcs Polyline
Convert a Bezier or Spline curve into a polyline composed entirely of circular arcs, or entirely of circular arcs and linear segments.
Stellated Polygo
Create star-shaped polygon objects in two clicks! Adjust properties for a variety of starred shapes.
Table Objects
Create a table on the fly, or import a table from DWG/DXF files.
Fill Schedule Wizard
Create and fill the schedule table with drawing information.
House Wizard
This big, time-saving tool creates a preliminary room-by-room design of a home, complete with closets, doors, garage and even decks!
ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES
Intelligent Walls
Self-healing walls automatically join and intersect as you design in 2D or 3D. View wall dimensions with a single-click.
Automatic Wall Openings
“Slide” doors, windows, arches or any shape to create “openings” in walls with linked 2D and 3D views. Even set vertical alignment properties. Dimensions display as doors and windows are inserted, showing the distance to and from the wall ends for easier, more precise placement. Plus, corresponding offset fields display in the Inspector Bar.
Parametric Doors & Windows
Window and Door dimensions can be scaled to meet your design needs. Further 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.
Fractional Dimensions
Display fractions in stacked, diagonal, or in-line layout to accommodate your personal preferences.
Point Marker Tool
Automatically number objects such as rooms, doors or windows. Great for creating legends, call outs, or simply mapping points and adding notes to your drawings.
MECHANICAL / 3D MODELING FEATURES
2D & 3D Boolean operations
Use two existing objects and combined, subtracted, intersected, or sliced to create a new object. Select multiple entities for addition or subtraction.
Revolv
Move a 2D object around a revolution axis to create a 3D object.
Extrude
Pull complex 3D models from simple 2D shapes.
Sweeps
Extrude shapes along a path, per fect for drafting irregular objects.
Chain Polyline
Chain Polyline allows for faster design by allowing you to connect intersecting objects or portions of objects into a single polyline which can be then extruded, revolved or swept.
Color Transparency
Screen back the color of an object in the foreground to display or emphasize hidden details in the background.
RENDERING
Lightworks® 8.3 Photorealistic Rendering Engine
TurboCAD Deluxe includes powerful, easy-to-use rendering and visualization technology by LightWorks. Users can define physically accurate materials such as glass, mirrors, and polished or reflective surfaces with ray tracing, so anyone can create stunning photorealistic designs. Progressive, ray-traced rendering improves workflow by generating fast estimates of an image and an early preview of light settings. This engine also supports multi-threading, taking advantage of multi core processors so the turnaround time for calculations is much faster.
Materials Library
Choose from or create your own realistic 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 cast hard and soft shadows and reflect accurately off reflective surfaces with ray tracing allowing you to create photorealistic designs. Fog and scattering mediums are also supported.
Design Director
Organize, access, and explore design alternatives easily in the Design Director Palette. Create layer templates, light templates, camera templates and powerful layers for use on different designs. Layer filters, that are .dwg compatible, help you manage large, complex drawings with ease. TurboCAD Deluxe layers are AutoCAD compatible, including a layers dialog based upon ‘Design Center’.
Floating and Shaped Viewports
Create viewports of Model space in multiple Paper spaces. Edit your viewports by changing their shape or the layers that they display, with the ability to turn on/off layers per viewport. You can even render within a viewport.
Multiple Drawings/Multiple Paper Space
Build multiple drawings, each with multiple paper spaces, with independent settings (grid units, etc.); then use tabs to quickly switch between paper spaces.
Colors, Brushes, Bitmap and Gradient 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.
INTEROPERABILITY
Industry Standard Files Supported
TurboCAD Deluxe nearly 30 industry-standard formats making it easy to share your work or as a companion product.
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Improved AutoCAD DWG/DXF Read/Write filters
TurboCAD has always offered excellent compatibility with native AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT files. Filter enhancements offers improved file sharing with AutoCAD 2013/2014.
Xref Manager
Manage external references (Xrefs) like a parts catalog in your TurboCAD drawing. Xrefs can also be exported with DWG or DXF drawings for greater AutoCAD® file compatibility.
New Trimble SketchUp SKP 2013 Read/Write Filters
TurboCAD 21 offers both Read and Write file filters based on the new SketchUp 2013 APIs. Import detailed information from your SketchUp model into TurboCAD. Supplemental rendering, lighting and materials information is also imported. You can also convert your TurboCAD models into native SketchUp (.SKP) files for seamless import into Google SketchUp.
New 3D Printing
Export 3D models to STL file format for rapid prototyping with 3D printers.
PDF Publishing
Save your drawing as PDF documents for easy sharing. Plus, export paper spaces, customize your fonts and define your paper widths and heights.
TurboCAD Deluxe 21
