TurboCAD Pro Platinum v21

TurboCAD Professional Platinum is now released in the US

Will be available here very soon

Below is my list of developments in TCv21 for the Pro Plat version that to me seem the most useful to you lot. As yet I have not had time to test run the new version, but these below will be the edits that I will be testing first.

Over the next month I will be trying out all on the list and will be writing a report of my opinions of the most useful, including notes and observations on how these work, highlighting anything to look out for.

I’ll send this personal report out to all my customers upgrading as soon as I am satisfied that I fully understand developments.

Official upgrade pricing is as follows:

Any pre orders will come at a discount on these prices, call me on 01962 835 081

Upgrade from v20 – £180

Upgrade from v19 – £240

Upgrade from v18 – £300

Upgrade from v17 and before – £480

New Arrow Tools

Four new arrow tools (Arrow Arc, Arrow Curve, Arrow Line, and Arrow Polyline) allow you to rapidly draw arrows. Specify the arrow tail and arrowhead or create your own.

New Auto-Shape

Quickly sketch out standard shapes (arc, line, box, etc.) and TurboCAD will automatically create the precision shape.

New Delta Distance and Delta Move Angle(s)

You can now move a selected object simply by specifying distance and a direction.

Improved Dimensional Updating for Drafting Objects

New TurboCAD 21 offers improved associative interactivity between Drafting Objects and Dimensions, with or without viewports.

Simple BIM Tools via IFC Export

TurboCAD 20 introduced Entity Marks and Property Sets. Property Sets allow users to create custom sets of information that can be associated with objects throughout a drawing. Entity Marks are a way of displaying that data next to specific objects in the drawing.

TurboCAD 21 offers a method to extract that data as well as extract data from custom properties, which has been a feature of TurboCAD since version 10. You can then export that data to the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) format, the industry standard for BIM information.

New Slice Any Solid with a (ACIS) Surface

Any flat or curved plane in space can be used to bisect a solid.

Improved Quick Pull

Three new options have been added to the Quick Pull tool. TurboCAD Pro users can now push pull on fillets to increase or decrease the radius of the fillet. The ability to push and pull on bends, and increase or decrease the radius of the bend has also been added. And finally, now you can push on the side of a cylinder and increase or decrease the radius of the cylinder.

New Material Wizard

Automatically create a new material based on an inserted image. This includes bump maps, image maps, transparency maps and reflection maps.

New Unwrapping

A new ‘least squares conformal maps’ algorithm in TurboCAD finds the optimum way to take a 3D surface and flatten it with the minimum distortion. For example, take the skin off of an apple without breaking it.