TurboCAD Pro 16 is the premium design software solution that’s delivered exceptional value to both 2D and 3D users for over twenty years. It’s complete 2D drafting and 3D surface and solid modeling toolset includes many of the most advanced technologies in the industry—ACIS® solid modeling, D-Cubed constraints, and Lightworks® photorealistic rendering.

TurboCAD Pro is an advanced general purpose CAD platform for design, drafting, and detailing. It is extensible by adding the Architectural or Mechanical Editions as well as any of a number of plug-ins.

There are powerful tools for 2D or 3D design, including 2D parametric constraints, 3D solid or surface modeling, robust photorealistic rendering, and extensive interoperability support to mention a few areas.

TurboCAD Pro appeals to numerous professionals and others interested in powerful modeling capabilities at an attractive and affordable price.

TurboCAD Pro advances productivity with tools that allow for design, modification, presentation, and documentation in an integrated fashion. And because we know that most people use a number of tools or collaborate with others frequently, TurboCAD Pro is designed to provide excellent workflow to and from other applications.

Open, insert, or embed up to 35 file formats and export up to 28, including .DWG, .DXF, .SKP (Google™ SketchUp™), .3DM (Rhinoceros®), .3DS (Autodesk® 3ds Max®), IGES, STEP, .OBJ, COLLADA (.DAE – write only); vector formats including .EPS and .SVG; raster formats including .BMP, .GIF, .JPG, .PNG, .TIF, and more.


TurboCAD Pro reads and writes .DWG and .DXF files from R14 through 2009 (2010 coming soon) including AutoCAD® Architecture extensions. This broad range of support helps to maintain your intellectual property investment by supporting older files, models, and parts. It also makes it easy to access parts from vendors or posted on model exchange sites like the Google 3D Warehouse.

TurboCAD Pro includes all the basic drawing and modification tools needed to draw nearly anything you can image. The advanced tools for manipulating geometry, such as the twisted extrude or branch lofting, allow you to implement your design vision more rapidly; while features such as the parametric constraints, parametric parts manager, and part tree allow you to work precisely and accurately.

Do more, faster.

Advanced Drawing Tools
TurboCAD includes over 40 line, arc, curve and spline tools and over 50 Editing and Modification tools; so that no matter the situation you’ve got the right tool for the job. When used with TurboCAD’s snaps, SEKE’s (Single Entry Key commands), dimensions and drawing aids you’ll be able to quickly draft and document your designs with outstanding flexibility.

Constraints
What-if analysis is made easy with 2D geometric and dimensional constraints and is a tremendous time saver as you iterate designs. Apply relationships between two or more objects for accurate designs which can then be adjusted easily. Make a change to one object in a design, and constraints automatically update the drawing based on the user defined parameters. When used in conjunction with TurboCAD’s linear and radial copy tools, constraints allow you to instantly modify entire sets of patterned objects commonly used in mechanical design. Additional constraint options are included in the TurboCAD Pro Mechanical and Platinum Editions.

Select Copy & Editing Tools
TurboCAD comes equipped with tools to allow you to quickly select objects by type, color, entity type, attribute, query, fence or by layer. Coupled with TurboCAD's array & copy tools, you’ll save copious amounts of time editing your design. Handled based editing significantly increases your ability to quickly move, rotate and accurately place any object(s).

Annotation Tools
Dimensioning and Text are vital to any CAD Drawing. TurboCAD 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.
• Format Painter lets you instantly grab and associate any desired format attributes between objects.

Parametric Parts, Blocks & Symbols
Easily create reusable parametrically driven objects, then drag and drop them into your designs, thereby accelerating all levels of design and detailing.. Advanced users can also script their own parametrically driven objects. Part and Symbol Library palettes allow for easier management of your CAD content.

Block Attributes
A block attribute is dynamic AutoCAD®-style informational text associated with a block that you can enter whenever you create or insert a block. TurboCAD reads, displays, and allows you to modify block attributes obtained from any AutoCAD drawing (DWG) and DXF files.

NEW XREF Manager
NEW XREF Manager is built in to the Block Palette, managing external references in your TurboCAD drawing more effectively. XREFs can also be exported with DWG or DXF drawings for greater AutoCAD® file compatibility.

Hatches Patterns and Line Styles
Apply hatch patterns by object or pick-points to add the finishing touches to your production drawings. Create your own Hatch vector and raster based hatch patterns and gradient fills with the Brush Styles Editor.

ACIS® Solid Modeling Engine (IMPROVED)
TurboCAD ACIS Solid Modeling Engine, updated to version 18, provides realistic, complex 3D object creation as well as data crucial for engineers such as Volume, Moments of inertia, Center of gravity and Surface Area through the . Some of the ACIS editing tools are:

• Rail, Sweep and Revolve
• Facet and Edge Modifiers
• Extrusions and Lofts of Compound Profiles
• Face to Face and Branch Lofting
• Section and Slice

Profile Editing
3D objects that are created by performing a function on a 2D profile can be modified to update the 3D object that is based on it.

Assembly Tools
'Easily combine multiple components together to create one part.

Part tree
Go back to any procedural step in your design and make modifications without losing any subsequent work.

LightWorks® (Improved)
Add lighting and luminance to your entire environment and apply bitmap materials to any 3D face for dramatic realism. TurboCAD now includes the Lightworks 7.9 lighting and rendering engine. This major upgrade of the underlying render engine provides global illumination, final gather, tone mapping, gamma correction, and dozens of new material shaders.

• Add ambient, point, directional, headlight, spot and sky light types to your design
• Apply luminance properties to any object to create stunning renderings.
• Choose from over 500 included materials, including over 140 eco-friendly materials like brick, marble, wood and stone.
• Access hundreds of brand name and custom colors, effects and materials through the LightWorks® Archive
• Create your own materials with the materials editor
• Add your own notes and descriptions to your Lightworks Elements
• New in v16 - Simply drag and drop materials from the Material Palette onto a 3D object's face
• New in v16 - Material preview allows you to see any selected item with the material and change preview scales.
• New in v16 - Benefit from advanced shader descriptions.

Render Styles and Style Editor (NEW) TurboCAD Pro now includes preset Render Styles that optimize dozens of settings for specific effects, photorealistic or non-photorealistic (such as oil painting and mosaic). The Render Style Editor allows for unlimited new styles to be created for one-click access to a particular style from project to project.

Drafting Palette (IMPROVED)
TurboCAD Pro’s Drafting Palette is exceptionally powerful and unique and expedites the drafting-to-detailing process. It creates associative 2D sections based on standard views or sectional planes of 3D surface or ACIS® solid models, including XREFs. You can even create nested, associative sections (i.e., cross-sections of cross-sections). The 2D views may be placed in paper spaces (layouts), hatched, dimensioned, and annotated. Because they are associative, if the model is changed, or the section plane is updated, the 2D profiles, hatches, and fills are also updated automatically.

Dynamic Viewports
Viewports have two components: a boundary and the view that it contains. Any update of the view is instantly applied to the viewport. Viewports can be independently scaled and displayed in hidden line draft and quality rendered modes.

Desktop Customization
TurboCAD’s desktop interface is completely customizable. Add command to any toolbar. Pop-up toolbars let you assign your most used tools to the local menu (right-mouse click), saving you from spending time navigating endlessly to use a tool.

Context Sensitive Help
Click any tool or menu item to instantly pull up the help description.

Database, Reports, Tables (IMPROVED)
Now Connect to any ODBC supported database. Define custom field reports, bill of materials and parts lists. XREF support allows your tables and part lists to automatically sync with external data sources for added efficiency. Table Objects that are AutoCAD® compatible.

Intelligent Roofs
Intelligent roofs let you alter the pitch, add skylights, move items, change materials and self heal after a move.

Terrain
Place your design on a hillside or uneven terrain. Create terrains from scratch by importing Triangular Irregular Network (TIN) data from standard file formats. Even create terrain objects from selected points.

walls
Walls automatically create openings for parametric doors and windows. TurboCAD also offers a host of supporting tools for walls. Wall Dimension tool – Quickly assign dimensions to any straight wall, including dimension thickness. Place dimensions in parallel or at any angle from the wall.

•   Join/Split/Modify/Dimension Walls – Intelligent walls automatically join, intersect, and split when placing a door or window and even update dimensions automatically after you edit them.
• Intelligent Walls – Self-healing intersection and ends help quickly layout floor plans.
• Convert to wall – convert existing lines, polylines, circles and curves into walls.
  
  Parametric Doors, Windows, and Stairs
  Instantly create and modify doors and windows, and stairs. Specify types and shape, select material, adjust dimensions, and more. Find more options with the TurboCAD Pro Architectural Edition and the TurboCAD Pro Platinum Edition.
• Door Type – Single and Double-hung
• Door Shapes – Rectangular and Custom
• Stair Types - Straight
• Window Type – Picture and Awning Transom
• Window Shapes - Rectangular

Parametric Doors, Windows, and Stairs
Instantly create and modify doors and windows, and stairs. Specify types and shape, select material, adjust dimensions, and more. Find more options with the TurboCAD Pro Architectural Edition and the TurboCAD Pro Platinum Edition.

• Door Type – Single and Double-hung
• Door Shapes – Rectangular and Custom
• Stair Types - Straight
• Window Type – Picture and Awning Transom
• Window Shapes - Rectangular

TurboCAD Pro supports nearly 40 popular CAD and Graphic File Formats.

Database Connect Palette (NEW)
Now, set up a data link to any data source (ODBC database, Excel, CSV, SQL, Access, Oracle, Sequel Server…) on either your local machine or company network. Since the data source remains outside of TurboCAD, the drawing file size is not affected maintaining performance. Reference data in a TurboCAD table as well as data associated to objects. The CAD file automatically updates with changes to the external database. Improves bill of material handling, real time pricing…

DWG/DXF Import/Export (IMPROVED)
TurboCAD has always offered excellent compatibility with native AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT files, making it an excellent companion product. A new ability to export XREFs with DWG or DXF drawings offers even greater AutoCAD file compatibility. Google SketchUp File Import/Export (IMPROVED)
The SketchUp (SKP) file import filter has been greatly enhanced in TurboCAD v16. Not only is more information about the SketchUp model now successfully imported into TurboCAD, but supplemental rendering, lighting and materials information is imported if the SketchUp model has been rendered with IMSI/Design's IDX Renditioner product, a plug-in to SketchUp. Now you can also save your TurboCAD models in the native SketchUp (.SKP) file format, allowing you to seamlessly import your designs into Google SketchUp.

ASAT File Import/Export
Store 3D objects and blocks/inserts in ASAT files and enjoy enhanced compatibility for 3D solid modeling.

Collada (DAE) File Export
Experience enhanced operability with virtual worlds and Google™ Earth

OBJ File Import/Export
Obtain OBJ support for polygonal models and free form models such as curves and NURB surfaces.

3DS File Import/Export
Get better interoperability with mechanical and artistic design applications. Supports material, texture coordinate, and normal import/export of 3DS files.