TurboCAD 2020 Platinum

TurboCAD 2020 Platinum

 

 

TurboCAD® 2020 Platinum is a professional 2D Drafting and 3D Solid Modeling CAD Solution for engineers, architects, manufacturers and other design professionals. It comes fully equipped with a powerful drafting palette, ACIS^® solid modeling, premium photorealistic rendering, advanced architectural and mechanical tool sets, AutoCAD^®-like 2D drafting interface options, and extensive file support.

 

PROFESSIONAL 2D/3D CAD SOFTWARE:

TurboCAD® 2020 Platinum delivers a robust collection of professional 2D/3D CAD tools to design, modify, present, and document in an integrated fashion. It includes advanced mechanical design and modification tools, a powerful drafting palette, 2D geometric and dimensional constraints, and an ACIS® solid modeling engine. It includes a customizable Ribbon Interface with 4K monitor support to optimize productivity and readability on higher resolution displays.

 

TURBOCAD 2020 PLATINUM CAN HELP YOU DESIGN PROJECTS SUCH AS:

• Advanced mechanical designs
• Architectural drawings
• Remodeling plans
• Inventions and patent designs
• Prototyping with 3D printers
• Mechanical drawings
• Furniture design, woodworking, and cabinetry
• Musical instruments
• Graphics and technical illustrations
• Product and Packaging design
• 2D drafting, diagraming and schematic drawings
• Custom manufacturing from CAD to CNC

 

WE WILL HELP YOU LEARN:

TurboCAD includes set up wizards, context-sensitive help, snaps, alignment aids, handle-based editing, and a flexible user interface. These will shorten your learning curve, and improve your productivity and design efficiency. Your purchase includes 6 months of free technical support, as well as access to our training tutorials, so you will not have to learn through trial and error. We are experts at creating CAD software and our tutorials will help you to become an expert user quickly. Plus, Context Sensitive help and a choice between using an offline PDF manual and our Online help portal.

 

Key Features

 

PROFESSIONAL 2D/3D CAD SOFTWARE:

TurboCAD 2020 Platinum is professional 2D/3D CAD software for users who need advanced capabilities at an affordable price. This product has an unparalleled selection of tools to create everything from advanced mechanical design to musical instruments. Some of our key features include

 

2D DESIGN AND EDITING:

TurboCAD is rich in professional 2D/3D design tools and drawing aids that speed design. Create views and viewports of any size and shape. Access extensive paper space and printing options. Multi-select drawing tool, dimension tools, and more. 

2D GEOMETRIC AND DIMENSIONAL CONSTRAINTS:

By setting up Constraints in a drawing, TurboCAD users have greater control to enforce design intent, as 2D Constraints typically drive 3D model design. Read more about Parametric Constraints.

PART TREE/HISTORY TREE :

Maintains your design history. Return to any procedural step in your design and make modifications without losing subsequent work. Works like a Selective UNDO/REDO.

 

ACIS SOLID MODELING / ADVANCED MECHANICAL DESIGN:

TurboCAD Platinum 2020 provides advanced 3D surface and ACIS® solid modeling tools. The thread tool, twisted extrude, extrude to face, imprint tool, parametric holes, imprint and more enable the easy creation of your more complicated professional designs. Access advanced modification tools like bend, unbend, and facet offset make it easier to modify existing geometry. Smooth surface mesh / sub-D modeling tools are also available allowing for the creation of more organic shapes.

 

DESIGN DIRECTOR PALETTE:

Provides advanced controls for Layers, Layer Filters, creating Layer Sets, setting and saving Work Planes, controlling Named Views, and more to streamline work and enhance productivity.  

 

PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING & VISUALIZATION:

The LightWorks® rendering engine creates stunning presentations. Render management of materials, luminance, environments, and advanced render styles give you truly photorealistic results. An optional rendering plug-in from Redway takes advantage of your computer’s GPU and produces faster, stunning photorealistic images.

 

COMPATIBILITY AND FILE SHARING:

Whether you’re a team of one or many, you’ll have the interoperability needed to collaborate. We’ve ensured that TurboCAD is compatible with a wide variety of popular CAD and Graphics formats. You will be able to deliver files that can be opened and edited by users of AutoCAD® and other popular design software. Your team will be running like a well-oiled machine.

• TurboCAD provides compatibility with AutoCAD® DWG and DXF files, from R12 to 2020
• STL Import/Export for 3D printing
• SVG Import/Export
• 3MF Import/Export
• VMRL Worlds Import/Export
• OBJ Import/Export
• Adobe Illustrator® Import
• PDF Export
• SketchUp 2020 Import/Export
• Collada™ (DAE) Import/Export
• Professional, Mechanical CAD Import from CATIA, Solidworks and more
• Read more about TurboCAD File Support

 

New Features

 

PERFORMANCE, USER INTERFACE & USABILITY:

 

RIBBON LARGE/SMALL ICONS, AVAILABLE SPACE ICON SIZING:

A new local menu option has been added when right-clicking on a Ribbon icon Users can now change the icon size/icon text to “Large Image and Text”, which allows for display of a larger image of the tool icon with associated text.

 

CHANGING THE STYLES OF RIBBON ICONS WITH A LACK OF FREE SPACE:

When using the Ribbon Interface, as you change either the UI Scale or Icon size through the Options/Toolbars and Menus /Options menu, the Size and Style (with or without text) of the icon will dynamically change.

 

REPEAT LAST COMMAND:

The new Repeat command allows user to repeat the previous command with a single click.

 

 

TEXT DRAGGER: ABILITY TO USE DEGREE, PLUS/MINUS, DIAMETER SIGNS WHILE ENTERING TEXT:

TurboCAD now supports Special Signs when inserting text into your drawing. The local menu includes Degree, Plus/Minus, and Diameter signs to use.

 

PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS:

You will get a productivity speed boost with new drawing improvements: Drafting Objects - The creation of Sectional Views and Objects in the Drafting Palette has been significantly accelerated.
Selector Tool (Drag Selection) - When in GDI draw mode, transformation operations such as Move, Rotate and Scale have been greatly sped up.
GDI Redraw with Small Objects - For drawings containing many small objects, redraw speed has been accelerated.

 

2D DRAFTING AND EDITING:

 

DRAFTING PALETTE: ABILITY TO SELECT LAYER SETS:

As with Paper Space View Ports, the Drafting Palette now has an Option to select a Layer Set. The Layer Set can contain both visible and non-visible layers. Previously, drafting objects did not take into account the visibility; rather it considered all layers in the 3D object visible, so user may have gotten drafting object with un-needed information.

 

2D EDIT MODE:

The new 2D Edit mode makes it much easier to design in 2D by turning off 3D objects, editing and modification tools. At a local menu level, only the 2D Selector is enabled, which then works with the selected object’s Coordinate System. The 2D Edit mode can be turned off by a simple click.

 

CONSTRAINT ANIMATION:

Dimension values that drive angles, lengths, and distances within a constraint system can now be animated. Animating these values provide powerful visual feedback to range of motion issues common in mechanical design problems. The tool extends into 3D motion analysis when the dimension values are part of a 2D constrained sketch that is used to define 3D extruded, sweep, or lathed shapes. Animating the dimension value automatically updates not only the sketch but the dependent 3D part. The user interface provides a variety of controls to analyze the motion including step increments, range, loop, pause, and move forward or backward.

 

BEST FIT CIRCLE AND LINE:

The new Best Fit Circle and Line tools allow the user to draw a circle which is best-fitted through 3 or more defined points or a line through 2 or more points. Points can be extracted from a specified location or from a specific object.

 

AUTO-NUMBERING FEATURE:

The Auto-numbering tool allows you to select multiple text entities and have them auto-numbered. Numbers are placed either at the end of each text block or can replace the text block.

 

ARCHITECTURAL:

OPENINGS MODIFIER:

A new “Auto Modifier" option has added. With this option enabled, the Opening (wall clipping contour modifier will be generated automatically. Previously the Opening modifier had to be manually defined. If the opening modifier was not defined, then a rectangle (opening extents) was always used to make a hole on the wall. Only 3D objects are used as modifiers.

 

3D DESIGN AND MODELING:

MASS PROPERTIES:

By assigning a Material to a 3D Solid object, the Density of that object is applied based upon the Material. Knowing the Density and the Volume of the 3D object enables TurboCAD to display through the Mass Properties tool, that 3D objects or collection of 3D objects’ weight.

 

3D SURFACE COVERING:

Modeling complex 3D shapes is now easier with the introduction of surface covering. Covering is the process of fitting a NURB surface to a set of outer curve boundaries. Covering compliments existing skinning and lofting tools with a technique often used to fill or close openings in surface models. For controlling the interior surface shape, covering also includes the option to specify guide curves. Coverings can be applied to either a 2D or 3D closed profile.

 

ACIS® UPDATE:

The ACIS 3D Modeling engine has been updated to version 29.0 The Spatial ACIS (SAT, SAB, ASAT import/export) is updated to support the latest ACIS formats (28.0, 29.0).

 

RENDERING AND VISUALIZATION:

 

FLAT SHOT:

The new Flat Shot tool allows users to create a 2D view of a 3D object, including visible and invisible lines, and then save that view in the Blocks Palette. A great tool for creating stunning presentations!

 

INTEROPERABILITY:

 

NEW PROFESSIONAL MECHANICAL CAD FILE FORMATS ADDED:

New support of Import and Export file filters from the leading, professional mechanical CAD products. Including: CATIA, Inventor, NX, Parasolid, ProE, Solid Edge, SolidWorks, and VDA-FS From CATIA.

 

AUTOCAD® AND SKETCHUP FILES:

TurboCAD now supports Import/Export of the AutoCAD 2020 DWG and DXF file formats, and Import/Export of SketchUp 2020 SKP file format.

 

SELECT FEATURE OR DEFEATURE PART:

Using the Facet Editor, you can now select all similar classes of ACIS® Objects – Blend Networks, Blend Sequences, Protrusions or Depressions, of a body part simply by selecting a single facet of that part. A powerful tool for replacing or removing a feature from an imported 3D part with no History.

 

3D PRINT CHECK AND REPAIR TOOL:

Before sending your design to your 3D printer, gain valuable information about your 3D model regarding its printability. This new tool will effectively identify any issue in your design before sending it to the printer, and allow you to then fix it in TurboCAD. A great tool for saving you time and unnecessary wear and tear on your 3D printer.

 

System Requirements

 

TurboCAD Platinum is delivered in a 64-bit version to take full advantage of your hardware’s available computer memory to load, process, and render CAD files. A 32-bit version is also available if required by your hardware.

 

CPU TYPE

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

 

64-BIT SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8* 64-bit, Windows 7 (64-bit) - 8 GB RAM.

 

32-BIT SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 - 4GB RAM.

TurboCAD^® is designed for desktops or laptops that meet the indicated system requirements. Windows RT technology used on some tablets is not supported.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO SUBSCRIPTION CUSTOMERS - Subscriptions require an active internet connection in order to maintain the subscription license.

 

RECOMMENDED:

Your experience with TurboCAD Platinum will be greatly enhanced with a newer generation, higher speed CPU, 8+ GB RAM.

 

Edition Comparison

 

New & Improved(*) Features	Platinum	Professional	Deluxe	Designer
Performance, User Interface and Usability
GDI Redraw and Selector Transformations speed acceleration*	V	V	V
Repeat Last Command	V	V	V	V
Ribbon Interface - Dynamic resizing of Icons & descriptions; Large icon support*	V	V	V	V
2D Drafting and Editing
2D Edit Mode	V	V
Best Fit Circle and Line tools	V	V	V	V
Constraint Animation	V	V	V	V
Section Properties	V
3D Modeling and Design
3D Printing Print Check and Repair Tools	V	V	V
Covering	V
Mass Properties	V
Select Feature or Defeature a Part	V
Rendering and Visualization
Flat Shot	V	V
Interoperability
AutoCAD DWG,DXF & SketchUP SKP - 2020 Import/Export Support*	V	V	V	V
Professional Mechanical CAD File Formats	V