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TurboCAD® Pro 14 Mechanical Edition is a professional CAD solution with the unparalleled design power and productivity of TurboCAD Pro, plus innovative tools for mechanical design. Get dramatic visual results with integrated 2D drafting, 3D surface and solid modeling, and 3D photorealistic rendering. New branch and face to-face lofting tools, compound profiles in blocks, geometric and dimensional constraint management tools, and superior file format compatibility offer added power and precision.

Complex designs can be created in a few simple clicks with the Mechanical Edition's New Flange Tool as well as tools for Tube Bending and Tube Extending. Our Parametric Hole Tool makes inserting holes into objects simple and now includes a new Boss Hole Type. Utilise the Improved Bend Tool to create models previously not possible and enhance the constraint power of TurboCAD Pro with 2D Pattern and Linear Pattern Constraints.

Revolutionary 'intelligent' tools that let you focus on design, not the design tools.

New Smart Dimension Tool makes for faster, more efficient annotation of your drawing, automatically recognizing and creating the correct dimension type for:

• Linear dimensions for parallel and orthogonal lines
• Angular dimensions for any angle
• Radial Dimensions for arcs
• Diameter Dimensions for circles
• Even add dimensions to 3D objects in Rendered or Hidden Line modes.

New Geometric Alignment Aids - Improved snap indicators and superior auxiliary line presentation, as well as other snap advances

• Improved Tangent Snaps
• Improved Projection Snaps
• Improved Perpendicular Line Snaps
• Improved Parallel Line Snaps
• Improved Tangent from Arc Snaps

• New Extended Node Editing for Cubes, Cylinder, and Cones

• New Compound Profiles in Blocks - A major enhancement to block handling, Compound Profiles can be generated, stored, and edited in a block section, saving valuable time.

• Improved Selection Info Palette puts all information about an object in one place and is now integrated with the Part Tree - no more jumping back and forth between palettes.

• New Dimension and 3D Layers are now created by default, so you don't have to think about it. When your image gets too cluttered, simply turn off the layer until you need it.

• Region Improvement - Creating a region from selected="selected" objects or by 2D Boolean operations is now up to 8 times faster.

Design, Draft & Present

• New LightWorks® v7.5 Photorealistic Rendering Engine
• New Terrain tool - Want to place your home or building design on a hillside or uneven terrain? It's a snap with the new Terrain tool. Create terrains from scratch or by importing Triangular Irregular Network (TIN) data from standard file formats.
• New options to display only foreground hidden lines Open up a world of presentation possibilities by overlaying hidden line renders on top of draft and quality rendered images.
• New Chamfer Angle Option - Specify the exact angle to be used in the Chamfer Command.
• Improved Multiline Text - Indent lines and paragraphs or create any number of tab stops.

• Delayed Paperspace Render - Don't be slowed down waiting for a render to happen. With TurboCAD 14, you control when and how your viewports in paperspace will render.

Step Ahead with Architectural Design

• New Parametric Stairs - Like doors & windows, stairs are fully parametric - Material, Stair Dimensions, including width, riser height, tread depth, riser count and how the stair terminates (with tread, riser or landing).
• New Wall Dimension Tool - Quickly assign dimensions to any straight wall, including dimension thickness.
• New Window & Door Schedules automatically generate. Adding a window or door into drawing dynamically updates the schedule and you have complete control over how text will appear.

Innovate with Mechanical Design

• New ACIS® v16 Solid Modeling Engine Upgraded from ACIS v15, you'll find many more improvements like improved healing when importing models and more.
• New Branch Lofting for one "trunk" and two or more 'branches'. New Branched Loft Tool manages both simple and compound profiles, minimizing what once took several operations.
• New Face to Face Lofting - Select two faces on different 3D objects and instantly build a lofting body to unite them.
• New Constraint Tool Option Angular Dimension for Arcs. Change the value of the angular dimension and watch it automatically update.
• Improved Part Tree lets you suppress any operation and delay update for quick "what if" scenarios. You can even hide portions of the Part Tree for re-rendering.

Included in the Mechanical version is the New additional Mechanical Pack

Our specialised mechanical drafting toolset, like the Facet Offet Tool, Parametric editing, Pattern Constraints and Parametric Holes include a host of new features:

Better Compatibility

• AutoCAD® 2007 Support offers easy file sharing and file compatibility with updated DXF/DWG file import export.
• New Google SketchUp Support allows you to import your SketchUp 5 conceptual design files into TurboCAD, the quickly create precision designs with TurboCAD's advanced tools.
• Improved Linear Dimensions Import from DWG - Better, more accurate conversion of linear dimensions from an AutoCAD drawing into a TurboCAD drawing.

This product includes the full featured TurboCAD Pro 14, with hundreds of 2D and 3D design tools, plus these additional Mechanical Design features;

• New! Tube Bend Tool - Make cylinders incredibly flexible. Simply choose where you want to bend to create models previously not possible.
• New! Tube Extend Tool - Simply extend a tube and bend it in just a few clicks.
• New! Flange Tool - Works with our new Smart Dimensioning to determine the exact position and size of a flange, speeding design.
• Improved Bend Tool with New Options - Rapidly create accurate bends measuring from a specific distance from the edge. Set the axis, angle and radius and let TurboCAD do the rest.
• Parametric Holes with New Boss Hole Type - Create parametric holes in objects in a few easy steps and modify the properties at any time including a new option for easy parametric cylindrical bosses.
• Constraints - The TurboCAD Pro 14 Mechanical Edition expands on TurboCAD Pro's constraint manager to include 2D Pattern Constraints that can be used to create a 3D object. In addition, Linear Pattern Constraints retain the distances between objects so when you adjust the distance between one, all others will update.
• Plus enjoy Enhanced Parametric Editing and our Facet Offset Tool

• Pentium IV Processor
• Microsoft ® Windows XP 512 MB RAM, Microsoft ® Vista 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 CD-ROM drive with 32 bit drivers

The following items are recommended but not required: 

• 2 GHz Processor, 2 GB RAM
• 3D Graphics accelerator card
• Wheel mouse
• Internet connection
• Microsoft ® Internet Explorer (tm) required for Internet registration
• Macromedia ® Flash (tm) plug-in required for on-line tutorials.

"It's quite astonishing. I knew TurboCAD was inexpensive but didn't realise just what a bargain it is."
"...there is actually a hell of a lot going for TurboCAD in both price and features."
"I haven't mentioned the price yet, but at £525, it's almost half the price of LT which wouldn't know a staircase from a polyline. It's also only £27 more than the vanilla vesion of TurboCAD Pro 14! The Platinum version, which has absolutely everything is only £10 more. It's quite astonishing. I knew TurboCAD was inexpensive but didn't realise just what a bargain it is. " AEC Magazine August 2007 Click here to read full article