TurboCAD package for Windows is 20 years old

Company IMSI / design has released a new version of its flagship product, TurboCAD 20, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the first issue.

In this anniversary release, TurboCAD CAD system provides users with such innovations as a separate working LTE-environment simulates the work with the package AutoCAD, as well as a much more realistic rendering of materials that make up the project details.

TurboCAD product series come out regularly, once a year. Company IMSI / Design in general is one of the "dinosaurs" in the CAD market. Founded in 1980, the company has managed to survive the explosion in popularity and the subsequent development of individual CAD systems, remains one of the few companies of its time and its category, which have preserved the independence for over 30 years, not counting developers AutoCAD, MicroStation and DataCAD.

Implementation of a new working environment for LTE simulation work in AutoCAD was a logical continuation of politics by IMSI / design to migrate to your product of successful findings of other products - yours and theirs. At this time the Pro edition and TurboCAD Pro Platinum Package 20 for Windows offer features from the package TurboCAD LTE, which was released exclusively for those familiar environment AutoCAD, but do not like the price of the original license.


Mode LTE makes TurboCAD 20 package look and work like AutoCAD. In particular, the play features a command line command names AutoCAD, as well as a dynamic cursor and input fields. Some tools, such as "line" work in AutoCAD, very different from the traditional environment TurboCAD. In future releases will add other AutoCAD-like features of LTE-editions TurboCAD.

Among the other new products is to provide an interactive UV-conversion (UV mapping). This mechanism allows you to bind raster images to the surfaces of 3D-objects. The package TurboCAD 20 can associate the image with the various facets of the model. Bindings can be changed easily, and when you select a face automatically allocated linked image. As developers have joked: "This is not just a function in AutoCAD». In addition, the AutoCAD no export models in the format of 3D PDF, in embodiments U3D (older) and Direct 3D PDF (with layers).

Multiview Entity Marks mechanism allows you to set these labels in the drawing, which shows a different representation of the two-dimensional and 3D-mode. Another interesting feature is associated with the implementation of a new associative array for all 2D, 3D-parts, planar objects and blocks. This array allows you to easily perform logical operations with bulk 3D-models. For example, you can change the number of holes in a row from four to seven, and the 3D automatically build new openings.

New Tool Gear Tool generates parametric 2D-gear transmission: You can select a specific gear tooth, which will be engaged with the other gear. Another new tool Stellated Polygon helps create parametric stellate polygons with rounded edges and sharp teeth - it helps to quickly model gears.

Finally, we should mention the extensive support for the latest formats DWG 2013 and starting up a network administrative console TurboCAD on servers running Windows Server 2008 (or later) for any user on the network, as well as updated support for scripting language Ruby. The ability to save in the cloud storage has not yet appeared.

TurboCAD 20 package is available for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit computers running Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8. For Mac OS X, offers a separate stand-alone version. More of package TurboCAD 20 for Windows can be found on the official website at www.turbocad.com .