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The premium software solution for professional mechanical design
TurboCAD Pro 16 Mechanical Edition is the ultimate solution for design experts with innovative tools tailored to mechanical engineers and designers. Built on the complete 2D drafting and 3D surface and solid modeling toolset of TurboCAD Pro, it includes many of the most advanced technologies in the industry—ACIS® solid modeling, D-Cubed constraints, and Lightworks® photorealistic rendering.
Overview
Surfaces and ACIS® solid modeling
D-Cubed constraints
Lightworks® photorealistic rendering
Powerful Drafting Palette & Part Tree
Advanced mechanical design tools
Drafting & Detailing
TurboCAD’s complete set of drawing, editing, and modification tools, along with annotation tools, help you quickly draft and document your designs with outstanding flexibility. What-if analysis is made easy with constraints and is a tremendous time saver for testing variations on your designs. Drafting Palette is exceptionally powerful and unique and expedites the drafting-to-detailing process. It creates associative 2D sections based on standard views or sectional planes of 3D surface or ACIS® solid models, including XREFs.
Expert Mechanical Tools
In addition to ACIS® solid modeling, this special edition offers enhanced 3D design tools for facet editing, lofting, bending and unbending of objects. Expanded D-Cubed constraints enhance the ability to run what-if scenarios and dramatically speed design revisions.
New Twisted Extrude
New Thread Tool
New Extrude to Face
Improved Imprint Tool
New Mid-point Constraint
Improved Symmetrical Constraints
Complete File Compatibility and Interoperability
TurboCAD Pro has always offered excellent file compatibility. Nearly 40 industry standard CAD and graphic formats are supported, including native AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT files (DXF/DWG), now with the ability to export XREFs. Google SketchUp support has also been greatly enhanced, and export to SketchUp (.SKP) file format has been added. A new Database Connect Palette has also been added allowing TurboCAD Pro users to set up a data link to any data source.
Features
Complete set of Drawing, Editing and Modification Tools
Advanced Drawing Tools
TurboCAD includes over 40 line, arc, curve and spline tools and over 50 Editing and Modication tools; so that no matter the situation you’ve got the right tool for the job. When used with TurboCAD’s snaps, SEKE’s (Single Entry Key commands), dimensions and drawing aids you’ll be able to quickly draft and document your designs with outstanding flexibility.
Constraints
What-if analysis is made easy with 2D geometric and dimensional constraints and is a tremendous time saver as you iterate designs. Apply relationships between two or more objects for accurate designs which can then be adjusted easily. Make a change to one object in a design, and constraints automatically update the drawing based on the user defined parameters. When used in conjunction with TurboCAD’s linear and radial copy tools, constraints allow you to instantly modify entire sets of patterned objects commonly used in mechanical design. Additional constraint options are included in the TurboCAD Pro Mechanical and Platinum Editions.
Select Copy & Editing Tools
TurboCAD comes equipped with tools to allow you to quickly select objects by type, colour, entity type, attribute, query, fence or by layer. Coupled with TurboCAD's array & copy tools, you’ll save copious amounts of time editing your design. Handled based editing significantly increases your ability to quickly move, rotate and accurately place any object(s).
Annotation Tools
Dimensioning and Text are vital to any CAD Drawing. TurboCAD includes:
Smart, Quick and Baseline which allow you to dimension automatically.
Associative Dimensions - freely move, rotate, or resize the associated objects and the dimension will retain its position relative to the objects, and the dimension text will change automatically to reflect changes.
Precise Dimensioning up to 10 decimal points.
Formats include: Architectural, Fractional, Engineering, Decimal, and Surveyor.
Multi-Text Formatting and Scaling options.
Format Painter lets you instantly grab and associate any desired format attributes between objects.
Parametric Parts, Blocks & Symbols
Easily create reusable parametrically driven objects, then drag and drop them into your designs, thereby accelerating all levels of design and detailing. Advanced users can also script their own parametrically driven objects. Part and Symbol Library palettes allow for easier management of your CAD content.
Block Attributes
A block attribute is dynamic AutoCAD®-style informational text associated with a block that you can enter whenever you create or insert a block. TurboCAD reads, displays, and allows you to modify block attributes obtained from any AutoCAD drawing (DWG) and DXF files.
NEW XREF Manager
NEW XREF Manager is built in to the Block Palette, managing external references in your TurboCAD drawing more effectively. XREFs can also be exported with DWG or DXF drawings for greater AutoCAD® file compatibility.
Hatches Patterns and Line Styles
Apply hatch patterns by object or pick-points to add the finishing touches to your production drawings. Create your own Hatch vector and raster based hatch patterns and gradient fills with the Brush Styles Editor.
Surface & Solid Modelling
ACIS® Solid Modelling Engine (IMPROVED)
TurboCAD ACIS Solid Modelling Engine, updated to version 18, provides realistic, complex 3D object creation as well as data crucial for engineers such as Volume, Moments of inertia, Centre of gravity and Surface Area through the . Some of the ACIS editing tools are:
Rail, Sweep and Revolve
Facet and Edge Modifiers
Extrusions and Lofts of Compound Profiles
Face to Face and Branch Lofting
Section and Slice
Profile Editing
3D objects that are created by performing a function on a 2D profile can be modified to update the 3D object that is based on it.
Assembly Tools
Easily combine multiple components together to create one part
Part Tree
Go back to any procedural step in your design and make modifications without losing any subsequent work.
Advanced Mechanical Tools
Additional Mechanical Tools
TurboCAD Pro Mechanical and Platinum Editions offer these tools for added flexibility and productivity
NEW Thread Tool - Easily create threaded 3D objects. The pitch and height of threading are parametrically defined and editable.
NEW Twisted Extrude - Create a wide variety of twisted extrusions with this simple extrude tool that offers added parameters including twist angle, distance type, normal, full height, twist to top, twist start distance, twist end distance, and twist continuity (G0, G1 or G2).
Bend - Create accurate bends measuring from a specific distance from the edge. Set the axis, angle and radius and let TurboCAD do the rest.
Tube Bend Tool - Make cylinders incredibly flexible. Simply choose where you want to bend on the tube.
Unbend - Great for sheet metal and fabrication shops, creates unfolding object, leaving original in tact.
Unfold Face- Unfolds faces of various ACIS objects including cone, cylindrical, planar and NURB faces; even those with a filleted rectangle as the base. This is also knows as obtaining the involute of a surface. It’s great for working with materials sheet metal or fabrics.
Facet Offset Tool - Move a Facet in or out of its current position while updating all connecting surfaces.
NEW Extrude to Face - Now extrude or subtract a face of a solid to either another face of a solid or to a surface.
Flange Tool - Rapidly creates flat and bent flanges using the Smart Dimensioning tool for precision.
Tube Flange Tool - Simply extend a tube and bend it in a few clicks.
Parametric Holes with Boss Hole Type - Create parametric holes in objects in a few easy steps and modify the properties at any time including a option for easy parametric cylindrical bosses.
IMPROVED Imprint - Saves up to 3 steps by optionally combining Booleans with the Extrude, Blend and Chamfer tools into one single procedure. New dimple feature enhancement makes sheet metal work easier with this tool.
Additional Constraint Options
In addition to TurboCAD Pro’s 2D geometric and dimensional constraints, TurboCAD Pro Mechanical and Platinum Editions offer these constraint options.
NEW Mid-point Constraint - Constrain a point to the midpoint of another line
IMPROVED Symmetrical Constraints – Now you can automatically create additional symmetrical constraints for end points of arcs and lines.
Horizontal & Vertical Constraints - Locks line segments into vertical or horizontal modes thereby adding greater control during the design process.
Lighting & Rendering
LightWorks® (Improved)
Add lighting and luminance to your entire environment and apply bitmap materials to any 3D face for dramatic realism. TurboCAD now includes the Lightworks 7.9 lighting and rendering engine. This major upgrade of the underlying render engine provides global illumination, final gather, tone mapping, gamma correction, and dozens of new material shaders.
Add ambient, point, directional, headlight, spot and sky light types to your design
Apply luminance properties to any object to create stunning renderings.
Choose from over 500 included materials, including over 140 eco-friendly materials like brick, marble, wood and stone.
Access hundreds of brand name and custom colours, effects and materials through the LightWorks® Archive
Create your own materials with the materials editor
Add your own notes and descriptions to your Lightworks Elements
New in v16 - Simply drag and drop materials from the Material Palette onto a 3D object's face
New in v16 - Material preview allows you to see any selected item with the material and change preview scales.
New in v16 - Benefit from advanced shader descriptions.
Render Styles and Style Editor (NEW)
TurboCAD Pro now includes preset Render Styles that optimize dozens of settings for specific effects, photorealistic or non-photorealistic (such as oil painting and mosaic). The Render Style Editor allows for unlimited new styles to be created for one-click access to a particular style from project to project.
Publishing, Productivity and Reports
Drafting Palette (IMPROVED)
TurboCAD Pro’s Drafting Palette is exceptionally powerful and unique and expedites the drafting-to-detailing process. It creates associative 2D sections based on standard views or sectional planes of 3D surface or ACIS® solid models, including XREFs. You can even create nested, associative sections (i.e., cross-sections of cross-sections). The 2D views may be placed in paperspaces (layouts), hatched, dimensioned, and annotated. Because they are associative, if the model is changed, or the section plane is updated, the 2D profiles, hatches, and fills are also updated automatically.
Dynamic Viewports
Viewports have two components: a boundary and the view that it contains. Any update of the view is instantly applied to the viewport. Viewports can be independently scaled and displayed in hidden line draft and quality rendered modes.
Desktop Customization
TurboCAD’s desktop interface is completely customizable. Add command to any toolbar. Pop-up toolbars let you assign your most used tools to the local menu (right-mouse click), saving you from spending time navigating endlessly to use a tool.
Context Sensitive Help
Click any tool or menu item to instantly pull up the help description.
Database, Reports, Tables (IMPROVED)
Now Connect to any ODBC supported database. Define custom field reports, bill of materials and parts lists. XREF support allows your tables and part lists to automatically sync with external data sources for added efficiency. Table Objects that are AutoCAD® compatible.
Architectural Tools
Parametric Doors, Windows, and Stairs
Instantly create and modify doors and windows, and stairs. Specify types and shape, select material, adjust dimensions, and more. Find more options with the TurboCAD Pro Architectural Edition and the TurboCAD Pro Platinum Edition.
Door Type – Single and Double-hung
Door Shapes – Rectangular and Custom
Stair Types - Straight
Window Type – Picture and Awning Transom
Window Shapes - Rectangular
Intelligent Roofs
Intelligent roofs let you alter the pitch, add skylights, move items, change materials and self heal after a move.
Terrain
Place your design on a hillside or uneven terrain. Create terrains from scratch by importing Triangular Irregular Network (TIN) data from standard file formats. Even create terrain objects from selected points.
AEC Styles
Allows you to modify or customize your architectural objects down to the last detail.
Outstanding Compatibility
TurboCAD Pro supports nearly 40 popular CAD and Graphic File Formats.
Database Connect Palette (NEW)
Now, set up a data link to any data source (ODBC database, Excel, CSV, SQL, Access, Oracle, Sequel Server…) on either your local machine or company network. Since the data source remains outside of TurboCAD, the drawing file size is not affected maintaining performance. Reference data in a TurboCAD table as well as data associated to objects. The CAD file automatically updates with changes to the external database. Improves bill of material handling, real time pricing…
DWG/DXF Import/Export (IMPROVED)
TurboCAD has always offered excellent compatibility with native AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT files, making it an excellent companion product. A new ability to export XREFs with DWG or DXF drawings offers even greater AutoCAD file compatibility.
Google SketchUp File Import/Export (IMPROVED)
The SketchUp (SKP) file import filter has been greatly enhanced in TurboCAD v16. Not only is more information about the SketchUp model now successfully imported into TurboCAD, but supplemental rendering, lighting and materials information is imported if the SketchUp model has been rendered with IMSI/Design's IDX Renditioner product, a plug-in to SketchUp. Now you can also save your TurboCAD models in the native SketchUp (.SKP) file format, allowing you to seamlessly import your designs into Google SketchUp.
ASAT File Import/Export - Store 3D objects and blocks/inserts in ASAT files and enjoy enhanced compatibility for 3D solid modelling.
Collada (DAE) File Export
Experience enhanced operability with virtual worlds and Google™ Earth
OBJ File Import/Export
Obtain OBJ support for polygonal models and free form models such as curves and NURB surfaces.
3DS File Import/Export
Get better interoperability with mechanical and artistic design applications. Supports material, texture coordinate, and normal import/export of 3DS files.
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