Overview
Fully integrated 2D drafting tools, 3D surface and ACIS solid modeling tools, assembly tools, advanced architectural tools, and powerful LightWorks photorealistic rendering are accompanied by thousands of symbols, materials, decals, and more. Customizable toolbars, set-up wizard, and context sensitive help enhance usability, while the block manager and the ability to quickly organize layers and layer sets optimize drawing management. Plus complete printing and publishing tools as well as extensive file support including AutoCAD DWG meet the needs of professional architects, engineers, illustrators, designers, and more. |
Benefits
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What’s new
The Bill of Material Create BOM feature has a new option to support fraction measurements. To use this feature, select the Attributes and BOM dialog box from the Tools menu. Select your objects and associated a data set such as CutList properties. Apply to selected. Now select the Create BOM option to create a table. In the BOM Settings dialog box, select the Decimals pull down option. And then Select Fractions to display measurements as factions of feet and inches.
The Photo Render tool palette provides access to many of the tools used to create photo rendered images. The tool palette is access from the Tools menu bar “Photo Render” option.
The laser light adds a direct light source that emits a focused beam of light. Laser Lights are defined by a start point, end point, radius, and gain. The start point defined the laser start while the end point defines the direction of the light. The radius value defines the cylinder region of light. The gain defines the strength of the light.
The paraboloid primitive provides a means to create a quadric surface from one-, two-, or three-point definitions. Use a paraboloid to create a reflectors/radars, automobile headlights, solar furnaces, antennas, and aerodynamic tips. The Paraboloid primitive is located in the solid primitives tool palette, last tool item. The one-point paraboloid has a base center, and three radius values. The two-point paraboloid has a base center, end. The three point has two points defining the base diagonal, and one point defining the height. Each method provides a data entry window interface to change the associated radius values.
Features
TurboCAD Pro for Mac is the ultimate in design productivity and makes it easy to design in 2D or 3D with a setup wizard, customizable toolbars and the most usability features including:
ACIS®-Based Solid Modeling TurboCAD Mac Pro provides you with ACIS Solid modeling engine. Make your models realistic with solid objects that have volume and shape as well as a framework, skin (set of surfaces) encasing the framework, and inner “body”. |
Advanced 3D Modeling Tools Layout your design or import existing files for easy editing. With intuitive design tools, even novice designers can quickly create precise 3D designs.
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Feature-Based/History Tree View and revise changes and modifications performed on individual objects, groups, or blocks to assess your progress.
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Model to Sheet Use floating model space to use model space tools in paper space to create and layout your drawing in TurboCAD Mac Pro. |
Photorealistic Rendering with HDR Assign materials and luminance qualities to objects. Create a render scene environment to modify the background and foreground of your model. |
File Import & Export Support TurboCAD Mac Pro enables you to import and export data from other TurboCAD formats, as well as formats of other CAD systems. |
Highlights
TurboCAD Mac Pro is high performance 3D/2D software at an economic price
TurboCAD Mac Pro is comprehensive 2D/3D CAD software that can handle most drafting and modeling design needs. This product has a wide selection of tools to create everything from large format architectural plans to fine jewelry design. There is 3D mesh modeling capability with subdivision technology to go from coarse to smooth surfaces. Photorealistic rendering and 3D printing will take your design plans across the finish line.
- Design complex organic shapes with extensive NURB surface modeling tools
- 2D Geometric and Dimensional Constraints to manage geometrical relationships between 2D shapes
- Push/Pull Modeling allows 3D surfaces to be edited with your mouse and cursor
- Powerful 3D editing tools such as skinning, blending, chamfering, and shelling
- Architectural and woodworking tools such as rabbet, miter and dovetail joints
- Extensive 2D drafting tools such as text, dimensions, 3D to 2D drawing, bill of materials
- Over 38,000 2D/3D symbols and parts for AEC, Mechanical, Electrical, Process Plant and Piping
- Multiple Viewports provide 2, 3 even 4 views of your design and drawing between them
- Integrated Photo Realistic Rendering and support for Keyshot LiveLinking™
- And much more!
Intuitive Design and Editing Utilities
Drawing precisely is easy with TurboCAD Mac! We have designed it to be user friendly and intuitive to work with.
- The LogiCursor™ anticipates your next action and guides your cursor to potential point selections in the drawing.
- The Gripper adds drag and drop capabilities to make editing designs easy breezy.
- Customizable Grids add another level of ease by providing precision drag and drop in rectangular, polar (circular), and isometric layouts.
Precision Drafting and Annotations
TurboCAD Mac Pro is also a robust design documentation tool with over 20 customizable dimension styles, including industry dimension formats.
Other great features to help you document and annotate your projects include:
- 26-dimension styles
- Import bitmaps for logos and reference images
- Spell check is provided for another level of accuracy
- Single click Fills and Hatch
Architectural Planning Tools
TurboCAD Mac Pro includes all the professional level architectural tools you and your team need to draft, print, and collaborate on projects together.
- Architectural wall tools
- Composite walls to show materials
- Parametric doors and windows
- Instant 3D walls, roofs, and floor slabs
- Compatibility with AutoCAD® DWG files
- ACIS®-based geometry means you are creating with the same technology as software that costs thousands of dollars
Woodworking Tools
TurboCAD Mac Pro includes tools to speed up your woodworking projects. You can quickly create otherwise tedious joints such as Dado joints and miter joints.
- Joints including rabbet, miter, and dovetails
- Dado joints including options for through, stopped or blind
- Edge treatments including cove, round, bullnose, Dupont, waterfall, Ogee, and custom
- Tongue & Groove
Complete Set of 2D Drafting Tools
TurboCAD Mac Pro provides unlimited 2D design options. Choose from a number 2D drafting tools including line, arc, curve, circle, ellipse, and spline tools. Access text, dimensioning tools, modifier and transformation tools for easy editing.
- Polygon tools – slot, N-sided, and polygon from curves
- Conic tools (a.k.a. conic section tools)
- Connect Curve and Join Option
- Sketch spline and Fair Spline
3D Modeling Tools
TurboCAD Mac provides powerful solid modeling technology found in many higher-end products. Additionally, TurboCAD Mac Pro delivers surface modeling tools to expand design capabilities.
- Part Tree/History Tree with Undo/Redo
- A complete design tool with extrusions, Booleans, surface modeling for more complex smooth surfaces
- Precise geometry suitable for ‘concept to manufacturing’
- Associative surface modeling
3D Printing Tools
TurboCAD Mac Pro includes 3D printing tools to prepare and validate your designs to make them 3D printer ready.
- 3D Print Check: Checks for print viability, displaying warnings or errors to the user.
- Surface Normals Check: Facet normals define the inside and outside areas of a part. If facet normals are pointing the wrong way, the 3D printer may have problems creating the part. This will check for problems and we have several commands that can help you fix it.
- Overhang Analysis: This will help you visually inspect modeling areas that may require structural support for 3D printing. Meshes, surfaces, and solids facets normals are compared to the work plane direction. Angles that are less or equal to 45 degrees are highlighted as red.
- Wall Thickness Analysis: This tool provides a means to visually inspect modeling areas that may be too thin for 3D printing. Meshes, surfaces, and solids facets are examined using ray intersections.
- Preview Slices: This interface will help you to slice models given a direction and thickness. The dialog box allows for animation through the slices and single-stepping. Use to verify that a part has closed, non-overlapping sections, a requirement for 3D printing.
- Auto Position: The Auto Position tool translates the model to the positive x, y coordinate system at z=0.
- Support Structure: Manually adds geometry to support material as it is created by the 3D printer. Support structures controls, include Attach Radius, Midpoint Radius, Base Radius, Base Thickness, and Drag base and midpoints to modify structure location.
- Show Printer Volume: Toggles the boundary of the default 3D Printer. The volume is defined within the Printer Definitions dialog box.
- Printer Definitions: Sets key parameters of the 3D printer, including length, width, and height of the volume accessible by the printer. The parameters in the Printer Definitions dialog box are used for commands such as 3D Print Check and Auto Position.
Record, Publish, & PDF
Record your screen with QuickTime Recording including audio capture for creating videos and tutorials. Save designs as single or multi-page PDFs for sending via email, or export to one of the many desktop publishing formats for placement in brochures and more.
Compatibility and file sharing
Whether you’re a team of one or many, you’ll have the interoperability needed to collaborate. TurboCAD is compatible with over a dozen popular CAD and Graphics formats. You will be able to deliver files that can be opened and edited by users of AutoCAD® andother popular design software. Your team will be running like a well-oiled machine.
- TurboCAD Mac provides compatibility with AutoCAD®DWG and DXF files, from R12 to 2023
- STL Import/Export for 3D printing
- SVG Import and Export
- 3MF Import & Export
- VMRL 2.0 Texture Support
- OBJ Texture Support
- Adobe Illustrator® Import
- PDF Import
- SketchUp 2023 Import/Export
- Collada™ (DAE) Import/Export
- Complete support for Metric and Imperial units
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Which version of TurboCAD is right for you?
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2D Drawing, Editing & Modifying | 2D Drawing, Editing & Modifying | 2D Drawing, Editing & Modifying | 2D Drawing, Editing & Modifying |
AutoCAD® File Compatibility | AutoCAD® File Compatibility | AutoCAD® File Compatibility | AutoCAD® File Compatibility |
3D Modeling & Editing | 3D Modeling & Editing | 3D Modeling & Editing | – |
Photorealistic Rendering | Photorealistic Rendering | Photorealistic Rendering | – |
3D Printing Support | 3D Printing Support | 3D Printing Support | – |
Architectural Tools | Architectural Tools | Architectural Tools (Limited) | Architectural Tools (Very Limited) |
2D Drafting Interface Options | 2D Drafting Interface Options | ||
Internal & External Database Connectivity | Internal & External Database Connectivity | ||
Point Cloud & Terrain Data Support | Point Cloud & Terrain Data Support | ||
ACIS® Solid Modeling | |||
2D Geometric & Dimension Constraints | |||
Part Tree/History Tree |