Overview

Precision 2D Drafting and Design Made Easy
TurboCAD Mac Designer 2D is the perfect gateway for people who are new to using CAD software or those who only need to create two dimensional designs, plans, and drawings. It is small budget friendly, yet powerful enough to build big projects. If you need 3D capability, see the Deluxe and/or Pro versions below.

TurboCAD Mac Designer can help you design projects such as:

• Architectural Drawings
• Remodeling Plans
• Floor Plans
• Interior Design Layouts
• Landscape Design Plans
• Electrical Diagrams
• Mechanical Designs
• DIY Projects
• Invention Mock Ups.

TurboCAD Mac Designer 2D includes over 275 drawing and editing tools

TurboCAD Mac 2D offers a large selection of tools, so that no matter the situation, you’ve got access to the right tool for the job. Each drawing tool has multiple options for creating objects in your designs. Powerful tools such as rectangular and polar (circular) arrays help you create more precise and complicated patterns. A complete toolkit of trimming options is available to help you make modifications. The included ‘Region Trim’ will do in one click, what most programs take dozens of steps to achieve.

• Points, Lines, Arcs, Circles, Ellipses, Splines
• Drawing tools provide multiple methods for creating
• Copy/Move, Scale, Rotate, Mirror, and Stretch
• Rectangular array with X and Y controls
• Polar array with customizable angles and spacing
• Trimming tools include Trim, Extend, and Break
• Customizable Fillet and Chamfer
• 2D Geometric and Dimensional Constraints to manage geometrical relationships between 2D shapes!
• Tool Icon sizing

Overview

Shift into high gear with TurboCAD Mac Deluxe 2D/3D
TurboCAD Mac Deluxe 2D/3D is a complete 2D/3D CAD solution that is extremely powerful, yet easy to use. Design with powerful 2D/3D drafting and ACIS® modeling tools. Quickly layout floor plans, diagrams, and illustrations. Our simple interface will speed up your workflow so that you can get more done in less time.

TurboCAD Mac Deluxe can help you design projects such as:

• Architectural Drawings
• Remodeling Plans
• Prototyping with 3D Printers
• Mechanical Drawings
• Furniture design, woodworking, and cabinetry
• 2D drafting, diagraming and schematic drawings
• Custom manufacturing from CAD to CNC.

TurboCAD Mac Deluxe 2D/3D is loaded with 3D modeling and 2D drafting tools

TurboCAD Mac Deluxe 2D/3D provides solid modeling technology found in many higher-end products. You will have over 275 tools for 2D drafting and a complete set of 3D design tools at your command. Yet thanks to our user-friendly interface, you’ll be able to go from start to finish in no-time-flat.

• Powerful 3D design tools including mesh, surface, and solid modeling
• 3D editing tools such as blending, chamfering, and shelling
• Complete design tool with extrusions, Booleans, and surface modeling.
• Precise geometry suitable for ‘concept to manufacturing’
• Automatically generate 2D drawings from 3D models
• Tools to create 3D from 2D shapes
• Over 275 tools for 2D drafting (text, dimensions, points, lines, arcs, etc.)
• 2D/3D Part Library of over 38,000 items
• 3D printing verification tools
• 2D Geometric and Dimensional Constraints to manage geometrical relationships between 2D shapes!

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 over a dozen popular CAD and Graphics formats. You will be able to deliver files that can be opened and edited by users of AutoCAD® andother popular design software. Your team will be running like a well-oiled machine.

Intuitive Design and Editing Utilities

Drawing precisely is easy with TurboCAD Mac! We have designed it to be user friendly and intuitive to work with.

• The LogiCursor™ anticipates your next action and guides your cursor to potential point selections in the drawing.
• The Gripper adds drag and drop capabilities to make editing designs easy breezy.
• Customizable Grids add another level of ease by providing precision drag and drop in rectangular, polar (circular), and isometric layouts

3D Printing Tools

TurboCAD Mac Deluxe 2D/3D includes 3D printing tools to prepare and validate your designs to make them 3D printer ready.

3D Print Check
Checks for print viability, displaying warnings or errors to the user.

Surface Normals Check
Facet normals define the inside and outside areas of a part. If facet normals are pointing the wrong way, the 3D printer may have problems creating the part. This will check for problems and we have several commands that can help you fix it.

Overhang Analysis
This will help you visually inspect modeling areas that may require structural support for 3D printing. Meshes, surfaces, and solids facets normals are compared to the work plane direction. Angles that are less or equal to 45 degrees are highlighted as red.

Wall Thickness Analysis
This tool provides a means to visually inspect modeling areas that may be too thin for 3D printing. Meshes, surfaces, and solids facets are examined using ray intersections.

Preview Slices
This interface will help you to slice models given a direction and thickness. The dialog box allows for animation through the slices and single-stepping. Use to verify that a part has closed, non-overlapping sections, a requirement for 3D printing.

Auto Position
The Auto Position tool translates the model to the positive x, y coordinate system at z=0.

Support Structure
Manually adds geometry to support material as it is created by the 3D printer. Support structures controls, include Attach Radius, Midpoint Radius, Base Radius, Base Thickness, and Drag base and midpoints to modify structure location.

Show Printer Volume
Toggles the boundary of the default 3D Printer. The volume is defined within the Printer Definitions dialog box.

Printer Definitions
Sets key parameters of the 3D printer, including length, width, and height of the volume accessible by the printer. The parameters in the Printer Definitions dialog box are used for commands such as 3D Print Check and Auto Position.

TurboCAD Mac Pro puts you in the driver’s seat for precision and control
TurboCAD® Mac Pro delivers unparalleled value and productivity in a professional 2D/3D CAD package. Fully integrated 2D drafting tools, 3D surface and ACIS® solid modeling tools, assembly tools, advanced architectural tools and photorealistic rendering are accompanied by thousands of symbols, materials, decals, and more.

TurboCAD Mac Pro can help you design projects such as:

• Architectural Drawings
• Remodeling Plans
• Prototyping with 3D Printers
• Mechanical Drawings
• Furniture design, woodworking, and cabinetry
• 2D drafting, diagraming and schematic drawings
• Custom manufacturing from CAD to CNC

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 over a dozen 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 Mac provides compatibility with AutoCAD®DWG and DXF files, from R12 to 2020
• STL Import/Export for 3D printing
• SVG Import and Export
• 3MF Import & Export
• VMRL 2.0 Texture Support
• OBJ Texture Support
• Adobe Illustrator® Import
• PDF Import
• SketchUp 2020 Import/Export
• Collada™ (DAE) Import/Export
• Complete support for Metric and Imperial units

Intuitive Design and Editing Utilities

Drawing precisely is easy with TurboCAD Mac! We have designed it to be user friendly and intuitive to work with.

• The LogiCursor™ anticipates your next action and guides your cursor to potential point selections in the drawing.
• The Gripper adds drag and drop capabilities to make editing designs easy breezy.
• Customizable Grids add another level of ease by providing precision drag and drop in rectangular, polar (circular), and isometric layouts.

Precision Drafting and Annotations

TurboCAD Mac Pro is also a robust design documentation tool with over 20 customizable dimension styles, including industry dimension formats.

Other great features to help you document and annotate your projects include:

• 26-dimension styles
• Import bitmaps for logos and reference images
• Spell check is provided for another level of accuracy
• Single click Fills and Hatch

Architectural Planning Tools

TurboCAD Mac Pro includes all the professional level architectural tools you and your team need to draft, print, and collaborate on projects together.

• Architectural wall tools
• Composite walls to show materials
• Parametric doors and windows
• Instant 3D walls, roofs, and floor slabs
• Compatibility with AutoCAD® DWG files
• ACIS®-based geometry means you are creating with the same technology as software that costs thousands of dollars

Woodworking Tools

TurboCAD Mac Pro includes tools to speed up your woodworking projects. You can quickly create otherwise tedious joints such as Dado joints and miter joints.

• Joints including rabbet, miter, and dovetails
• Dado joints including options for through, stopped or blind
• Edge treatments including cove, round, bullnose, Dupont, waterfall, Ogee, and custom
• Tongue & Groove

Complete Set of 2D Drafting Tools

TurboCAD Mac Pro provides unlimited 2D design options. Choose from a number 2D drafting tools including line, arc, curve, circle, ellipse, and spline tools. Access text, dimensioning tools, modifier and transformation tools for easy editing.

• Polygon tools – slot, N-sided, and polygon from curves
• Conic tools (a.k.a. conic section tools)
• Connect Curve and Join Option
• Sketch spline and Fair Spline

3D Modeling Tools

TurboCAD Mac provides powerful solid modeling technology found in many higher-end products. Additionally, TurboCAD Mac Pro delivers surface modeling tools to expand design capabilities.

• Part Tree/History Tree with Undo/Redo
• A complete design tool with extrusions, Booleans, surface modeling for more complex smooth surfaces
• Precise geometry suitable for ‘concept to manufacturing’
• Associative surface modeling

3D Printing Tools

TurboCAD Mac Pro includes 3D printing tools to prepare and validate your designs to make them 3D printer ready.

3D Print Check
Checks for print viability, displaying warnings or errors to the user.

Surface Normals Check
Facet normals define the inside and outside areas of a part. If facet normals are pointing the wrong way, the 3D printer may have problems creating the part. This will check for problems and we have several commands that can help you fix it.

Overhang Analysis
This will help you visually inspect modeling areas that may require structural support for 3D printing. Meshes, surfaces, and solids facets normals are compared to the work plane direction. Angles that are less or equal to 45 degrees are highlighted as red.

Wall Thickness Analysis
This tool provides a means to visually inspect modeling areas that may be too thin for 3D printing. Meshes, surfaces, and solids facets are examined using ray intersections.

Preview Slices
This interface will help you to slice models given a direction and thickness. The dialog box allows for animation through the slices and single-stepping. Use to verify that a part has closed, non-overlapping sections, a requirement for 3D printing.

Auto Position
The Auto Position tool translates the model to the positive x, y coordinate system at z=0.

Support Structure
Manually adds geometry to support material as it is created by the 3D printer. Support structures controls, include Attach Radius, Midpoint Radius, Base Radius, Base Thickness, and Drag base and midpoints to modify structure location.

Show Printer Volume
Toggles the boundary of the default 3D Printer. The volume is defined within the Printer Definitions dialog box.

Printer Definitions
Sets key parameters of the 3D printer, including length, width, and height of the volume accessible by the printer. The parameters in the Printer Definitions dialog box are used for commands such as 3D Print Check and Auto Position.

Record, Publish, & PDF

Record your screen with QuickTime Recording including audio capture for creating videos and tutorials. Save designs as single or multi-page PDFs for sending via email, or export to one of the many desktop publishing formats for placement in brochures and more.