Overview

TurboCAD Designer is easy to use 2D CAD software, perfect for creating precision home plans, technical drawings, illustrations, maps, school projects, flow charts and more. With all the 2D CAD tools you demand at a great price, it's no wonder award-winning TurboCAD is the market leader in consumer-friendly CAD. This adaptable product can design anything from simple sketches to production-ready drawings.

• Affordable CAD
  TurboCAD Designer offers all the professional features you demand from a 2D CAD application at a great price. 

• Easy To Learn And Use
  Regardless of your skill level, you can get productive immediately using the setup wizard, interactive tutorials, and context-sensitive help. Simply customize your menu settings to beginner, intermediate and advanced mode in a familiar Windows® style interface to get results fast.   

• Complete 2D Drafting & Detailing
  No matter the situation, you've got the right tool for the job. Quickly access hundreds of drawing, modifying, dimensioning and annotation tools. Use with snaps and drawing aids to speed design 

• CAD & Graphics Compatibility
  TurboCAD Designer makes it easy to import exiting designs, or share your work with others. Import and Export AutoCAD® DWG/DXF files (now compatible through AutoCAD 2011), save to PDF and more! Over 20 of the most popular industry-standard file formats are supported.

• Bonus CAD Fundamentals 2D Training CD - This comprehensive 2D CAD course includes over 200 lessons available on CD-ROM and has been developed in Australia by a full-time CAD teacher and TurboCAD authority, Ken Doyle.

Features

Display tools with full explanations in the beginner mode. Switch to intermediate or expert mode to gain screen space as you become more familiar with TurboCAD.

Setup Wizard

Breeze through questions designed to help you define your drawing's size and orientation, units of measurement, printing scale and viewpoints.

A Complete Set of 2D Drafting and Detailing Tools - TurboCAD Designer employs a large selection of line, arc, curve, and spline tools, you've always got the right tool for the job. When used with TurboCAD's snaps, modification tools, and drawing aids you will be able to quickly draft and document your designs with no restrictions.

• Point Marker Tool
• Arcs, Bezier Curve, Circles, Ellipses, Construction, Lines, Double Lines, Irregular, Polygon, Lines, Multi-Lines, Parallel Lines, Perpendicular Lines, Points, Polygon, Polyline
• Chamfer/Fillet, Assemble, Align, Trace by Point, Trace by Rectangle
• Insert Picture, Text, Object, Brush Style
• Transform: Move, Rotate, Scale
• Revision Cloud
• 2 Types of Spline Curves
• Array Copy for Drafting Repeating Objects
• Boolean Add, Subtract, Intersect
• Multiple Object Trim and Extend
• Stretch, Split, Trim, Meet Two Lines, Break, Extend
• 2D Measurements - Angle, Area, Coordinates, Distance
• Wall

Annotation Tools
Dimensioning and Text are vital to any CAD Drawing. TurboCAD Designer 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.

Pick Point & Path Hatching, Bitmap 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.

Advanced Handle-Based Editing
Save time and draw more accurately, more quickly. TurboCAD provides handles for scaling, but also for rotating and moving objects.

Context-Sensitive Help
The TurboCAD context menu (right-click) provides access to 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

PDF Publishing
Save your drawing as PDF documents for easy sharing. Plus, export paper spaces, customize your fonts and define your paper widths and heights.

CAD and Graphics Compatible
Sharing your files with others and among other programs is easy. TurboCAD supports the most current and popular industry-standard file formats including AutoCAD®.

Earth-Friendly "Green" Design
TurboCAD offers a complete set of pre-drawn, eco-friendly details that you can drag and drop into your design. Access the Green Building Design Center for a comprehensive list of earth-friendly building and design ideas, solution and supplies. Dozens of links will help you locate energy wise and environment friendly doors, windows, natural lighting and much more

New Features

NEW Layer Filters - Layer filters that are .dwg compatible, help you manage large, complex drawings with ease. Simply organize layers by a defined set of parameters. All layers which meet the parameters define by the filter will be grouped in the lower panel of the Design Director.

NEW Color Table (CTB) Print Style Support - AutoCAD® Color Table (.CTB) file support added to existing support of Style Table (STD) print styles.

IMPROVED Blocks and Groups - In-place editing of blocks and groups. Now can edit and customize individual Blocks.

NEW Index Color Support - Index Colors added to support of True Colors. Includes proper round-tripping of DWG files and the Color Dialog's Index colors match AutoCAD LT colors 1:1.

NEW Line Width Scaling - New value "Device width" for TC pen property "Line Width Scale System" was added.

NEW Multilanguage support - It is now possible to input, edit and visualization objects name (Layers, blocks, styles, etc.) independent of the current local OS system settings.

IMPROVED Meet Two Lines Tool - Bezier and Spline curves are now supported

IMPROVED Multi-Text, Text - Much easier to now get into edit mode as editing is turned on when either the MultiText or Text tools are enabled. Able to enter larger text strings without degradation of performance.

IMPROVED Paper Space Templates - Now you can insert and extract specific Paper Spaces from other TCT (TurboCAD templates), TCW and DWG files. Also, define different printers and printer setting for each Paper Space in a drawing.

IMPROVED Shrink/Extend Tool - Bezier and NURBs curves are now supported.

IMPROVED Templates - Improved Architectural and Metric templates.

IMPROVED .DWG/.DXF Filters - Ability to define line weights during file import; define how arc elements convert during export. Ability to read Multi-Leader objects and styles. Now possible to control Xrefs through Xref Layers.

Requirements

PC :
• Pentium IV Processor
• Microsoft® Windows XP, Microsoft® Vista, Windows 7
• 300 MB of free hard disk space depending on accessory applications installed, 64 MB of swap space
• Super VGA (1024 x768) display
• High Color (16 bit) graphics card
• DVD-ROM drive
• Adobe Reader v6 or higher. Recommended v7 or higher