TurboCAD 16 Deluxe

Hundreds of Easy-To-Use Features
TurboCAD Deluxe is packed with hundreds of advanced CAD design tools typically found in CAD programs costing hundreds or even thousands of pounds more, but is simple enough for anyone to use. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced CAD designer, TurboCAD Deluxe is the smart choice.

Innovative Architectural Tools
TurboCAD’s 2D/3D architectural tools let you design floorplans, decks, kitchens, bathrooms, room additions and more. Easily create top view two-dimensional floorplans, and then use our walk-through tools to tour your design in 3D. Add materials, lighting and shadowing effects, and then produce stunning photorealistic renderings.

Sophisticated Mechanical Tools
TurboCAD’s mechanical drafting tools let you design everything from engines and mechanical parts, to circuit boards, patent drawings and more. Create complex 3D shapes simply by extruding (pulling) them from your 2D shapes. Edit directly in 3D mode and apply colours, brush styles and lighting effects to create stunning visual presentations.

TurboCAD® 16 Deluxe 2D/3D gives you unlimited CAD design options. Packed with hundreds of professional drafting tools, incredible file support, video and interactive tutorials, photorealistic rendering and millions of symbols, TurboCAD Deluxe delivers everything you need.

Create presentation-ready home plans, technical drawings, mechanical designs, artistic illustrations, crafts, school projects and more. TurboCAD's LightWorks® photorealistic rendering allows you to create stunning, life-like visualisations of your designs.

Previous CAD experience is not required. TurboCAD Deluxe is backed by an extensive support network of user forums, newsletters, training materials and online resources. TurboCAD Deluxe is the smart choice for consumers looking for a high-quality, all purpose CAD application.

Top 5 Reasons TurboCAD is No.1!

• 1: Affordable CAD - More professional features per pound than any other 2D/3D CAD application sold.
• 2: Easy to Learn & Use - Beginner, intermediate, and advanced menu settings with context sensitive help in a familiar Windows® style interface helps you get results fast!
• 3: Complete 2D Drafting & 3D Modelling in One Application - Packed with 2D drawing, modifying, and dimensioning tools, plus 3D modelling, photorealistic rendering, advanced lighting effects, transparency options, camera views, and more!
• 4: CAD & Graphic Compatibility - Supports 28 of the most popular industry-standard file formats including AutoCAD® & Google™ SketchUp™ files, save to PDF, and more!
• 5: Proven CAD Solution for Over 22 Years. Year after year, the industry’s most versatile and consumer friendly CAD application.

Why Buy TurboCAD Deluxe?

• TurboCAD® 16 Deluxe 2D/3D gives you unlimited design options with hundreds of professional design and drafting tools.
• New and improved features including helix tool, Google SketchUp file support, 3D mouse support, and more!
• The most affordable CAD - more professional features per pound than any other 2D/3D CAD application.
• More 2D Drafting & 3D Modelling in One Application – get more precision design and drafting tools.
• Incredible file support, video and interactive tutorials, photorealistic rendering and millions of symbols
• Easy to Learn and Use - context-sensitive help within the software, searchable, indexed help online.
• Improved CAD & Graphics Compatibility - includes support for the most-popular industry-standard file formats.
• Proven CAD Solutions for Over 22 Years - the industry's most versatile, consumer friendly CAD application.
• Includes CAD Fundamentals Video Tutorials worth £39 and a printed user guide to get you started quickly!
• Perfect for Architects, Illustrators, Hobbyists, Designers, Students, Engineers, Builders, Contractors and more!

Lightworks® Photorealistic Rendering
Powerful 3D rendering defines physically accurate materials such as glass, mirrors, and polished or reflective surfaces with ray tracing – allowing you to create photorealistic designs.

PDF Publishing
Save your drawing as PDF documents for easy sharing. Plus, export paper spaces, customise your fonts and define your paper widths and heights.

Earth-Friendly “Green” Design
TurboCAD offers a complete set of pre-drawn, eco-friendly details that you can drag and drop into your design, as well as dozens of “green” materials. Access the Green Building Design Centre for more earth-friendly building and design ideas, solutions and supplies. Dozens of links will help you locate energy wise and environment friendly doors, windows, natural lighting and much more.

Hundreds of Easy-to-Use Features
Setup Wizard
Breeze through questions designed to help you define your drawing’s size and orientation, units of measurement, printing scale and viewpoints

Flexible User Interface
Turn on and off only the tools you want to see as you work in a familiar, windows-like, customisable interface. Display TurboCAD’s comprehensive set of 2D/3D design tools with full explanations in the beginner mode. Switch to intermediate or expert mode to gain screen space as you become more familiar with the program.

Advanced Handle-Based Editing Save time and draw more accurately, more quickly. TurboCAD provides handles for scaling, but also for rotating, moving and aligning objects.

Context-Sensitive Help
Get instant knowledge on tools by utilising the built-in help feature which will take you straight to the User Guide explanation of that tool.

2D & 3D Text Editing
Create and edit text without leaving your drawing. Plus, choose from thousands of colours for text and background.

Colours, 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.

Table Objects
Create a table on the fly, or import a table from DWG/DXF files. Create and fill the schedule table with drawing information using the fill schedule wizard.

Full Compatibility
Full import export compatibility with: 3DS, CGM, DGN, DWF, DWG, DXF, WRL, WRZ, PLT, TCW, WMF
Import compatibility with: SKP, DC, DCD, FCD, FCW, GEO, 3DV,
Export compatibility with: BMP, DAE, GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG

Architectural Tools

Hatch Patterns
Choose from over 70 hatch patterns (including colours) to help you visually identify various components of your drawing.

• Edit and work in 3D without leaving Rendered Mode
• Photorealistic Rendering
• Realistic Lighting Effects
• Hard and Soft Shadows
• Realistic Materials & Textures

Intelligent Parametric Walls

• Self-Healing 2D & 3D Walls – Walls automatically join and intersect, and update automatically.
• Single-Click Wall Dimensions – One-step incremental and overall dimensions.
• Wall Openings for Doors/Windows – “Slide” doors, windows, arches or any shape to create “openings” in walls with linked 2D and 3D views for correct representation in any view.

Parametric Doors & Windows
Window and Door dimensions are fully parametric and can be scaled to meet your design needs. Further customise with materials, then simply drag and drop them as objects into the self healing walls of your 3D drawing. TurboCAD will automatically generate the appropriate symbol for the 2D version of the drawing.

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 Tools:

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.

2D and 3D Boolean Operations
Simply transform primitive objects into sophisticated 3D models with Boolean operations like add, intersect, subtract, and slice.

Revolve
Create a 3D object by revolving a 2D object around a revolution axis.

Extrudes & Sweeps
Create complex 3D models by simply extruding (pulling) them from simple 2D shapes. Or use Sweeps to extrude complex shapes along a path that you define. Perfect for drafting irregular objects such as pipes that must be routed around other objects.

Automatic, Editable Meshes
Easily create complex meshes by entering coordinate information or importing matrix data from Excel®. Then view, edit and render the mesh directly into TurboCAD.

Snaps & Geometric Alignment Aids
Draw lines quickly and let snap tools automatically align them with the closest centre point, end point, or dozens of points you choose. Geometric alignment aids improve snap indicators.

Floating and Shaped Viewports
Create multiple viewports of Model space in multiple Paper spaces. Then edit your viewports by changing their shape or the layers that they display. You can even render within a viewport.

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Minimum

• 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
• DVD-ROM drive
• Adobe Reader v6 or higher. Recommended v7 or higher.

Recommended

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

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