The next generation of high-performance CAD has arrived. New TurboCAD 18 offers significant improvements to just about every area in the application... including 2D and 3D performance.
TurboCAD Deluxe is powerful and complete 2D/3D CAD software. Use the setup wizard, snaps and alignment aids to quickly layout your design. Choose from beginner, intermediate or advanced modes to access hundreds of drawing, modifying, dimensioning and annotation tools. Apply realistic materials and lighting effects to create stunning, photorealistic presentations, and explore design alternatives with the Design Director. Plus, extensive file interoperability, including support for AutoCAD DWG/DXF and Google Sketch Up, make it easy to share your work with others. It's everything you need to need to create presentation-ready home plans, technical drawings, mechanical designs, illustrations, school projects and more.

Usability And Interface:

• Context-Sensitive Help: Right-click to instantly access recently used tools, recently entered values, and a quick way to change or reset reference points. If a TurboCAD tool is active, the context menu provides a contextual toolbar as well, with additional similar tools and functions
• 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
• Page Set Up Wizard: Breeze through questions designed to help you define your drawing's size and orientation, units of measurement, printing scale and viewpoints
• 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
• Snaps and 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
• 2D and 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
• Fill Schedule Wizard: Create and fill the schedule table with drawing information.

Complete Set Of 2D Drafting And 3D Modelling Tools.
TurboCAD employs a large selection of line, arc, curve, spline tools, and other expected tools, so that no matter the situation you've got access to the right tool for the job. When used with TurboCAD snaps, modification tools, and drawing aids you will be able to quickly draft and document your designs. Below is only a small sample of the drawing, modifying, and dimensioning tools.

• Drawing Tools: Arc, Bezier Curve, Circles, Command Line, Construction Lines, Double Line, Ellipse, Line, Multiline, Parallel Line, Perpendicular Line, Points, Polygon, Polyline, Revision Cloud, Spline Curve, Trim, Wall.
• Modelling Tools: Box, Cone, Cylinder, Sphere, Wedge, Prism, Doughnut, Extrude, Helix, Revolve, Sweep, Mesh, Booleans and Splines.
• Editing/Modification Tools: Align, Array, Boolean operations, Chamfer, Distribute, Double Line Modify, Erase, Fillet, Join Polyline, Meet two lines, Mirror, Multi shrink/extend line, Offset, Rotate, Scale, Split, Stretch, Shrink/extend line, Transform, Trim
• Dimension Types: Angular, Baseline, Continuous, Datum, Diameter, Incremental, Orthogonal, Parallel, Quick, Radial, Rotated, String, Smart.

Architectural

TurboCAD Deluxe 18 includes practical tools tailored to architects, builders, and civil engineers. Design and showcase floor plans, decks, kitchens, bathrooms, room additions and more.

• Intelligent Walls: Self-healing walls automatically join and intersect as you design in 2D or 3D. View wall dimensions with a single-click
• Automatic Wall Openings: "Slide" doors, windows, arches or any shape to create "openings" in walls with linked 2D and 3D views. Set vertical alignment properties for precise placement
• Parametric Doors and Windows: Window and Door dimensions can be scaled to meet your design needs. Further customise with materials and colours
• Hatch Patterns and Fills: Choose from over 70 hatch patterns (including colours) to visually identify various components of your drawing. Bitmaps, like your company logo, or gradient fills may also be used with transparency
• 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
TurboCAD Deluxe 18 offers innovative tools tailored to mechanical engineers and designers. Design everything from engines and mechanical parts, to circuit boards, patent drawings and more.

• 2D and 3D Boolean operations: Use two existing objects and combine, subtract, intersect, or slice to create a new object. Select multiple entities for addition or subtraction
• Revolve: Move a 2D object around a revolution axis to create a 3D object
• Extrude: Pull complex 3D models from simple 2D shapes
• Sweeps: Extrude shapes along a path, perfect for drafting irregular objects
• Chain Polyline: Chain Polyline allows for faster design by allowing you to connect intersecting objects or portions of objects into a single polyline which can be then extruded, revolved or swept
• Automatic, Editable Meshes: Easily create complex meshes by entering coordinate information or importing matrix data from Excel, then view, edit and render
• Colour Transparency:
• Screen back the colour of an object in the foreground to display or emphasise hidden details in the background

Incredible Compatibility

TurboCAD Deluxe 18 supports 28 industry-standard formats, including AutoCAD and Google Sketch Up making it an excellent companion product.

Import detailed information from your Sketch Up model into TurboCAD. Supplemental rendering, lighting and materials information is also imported. You can also convert your TurboCAD models into native Sketch Up (.SKP) files for seamless import into Google Sketch Up. Updates to this filter with TurboCAD Deluxe 18 allows users to now read/write Google Sketch Up files up to version 8.

New AutoCAD 2011 .DWG/.DXF Import/Export
TurboCAD has always offered excellent compatibility with native AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT files. There is even the ability to export XREFs with DWG or DXF drawings offers even greater AutoCAD file compatibility. Filter enhancements with TurboCAD Deluxe 18 offers improved file sharing with AutoCAD 2010 and 2011.