TurboCAD Mac Pro delivers unparalleled value and productivity in a professional 2D/3D CAD package with fully integrated 2D drafting tools, 3D surface and ACIS® solid modeling tools, assembly tools, advanced architectural tools, powerful photorealistic rendering, 3D printing features, and extensive file support.
Design projects
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
Flexible File Sharing and Publishing Options
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
Learning TurboCAD Mac is Easy
While TurboCAD Mac is feature rich, intuitive tools like the LogiCursor™ make CAD a snap by suggesting your next move as you draw.
You also have access to our training tutorials, so you will not have to learn through trial and error. We are experts at creating CAD software and our tutorials will help you to become an expert user quickly.
KEY FEATURES
TurboCAD Mac Pro is comprehensive 2D/3D CAD software that can handle most drafting and modeling design needs. This product has a wide selection of tools to create everything from large format architectural plans to fine jewelry design. There is 3D mesh modeling capability with subdivision technology to go from coarse to smooth surfaces. Photorealistic rendering and 3D printing will take your design plans across the finish line.
Design complex organic shapes with extensive NURB surface modeling tools
2D Geometric and Dimensional Constraints to manage geometrical relationships between 2D shapes
Push/Pull Modeling allows 3D surfaces to be edited with your mouse and cursor
Powerful 3D editing tools such as skinning, blending, chamfering, and shelling
Architectural and woodworking tools such as rabbet, miter and dovetail joints
Extensive 2D drafting tools such as text, dimensions, 3D to 2D drawing, bill of materials
Over 38,000 2D/3D symbols and parts for AEC, Mechanical, Electrical, Process Plant and Piping
Multiple Viewports provide 2, 3 even 4 views of your design and drawing between them
Integrated Photo Realistic Rendering and support for Keyshot LiveLinking™
And much more!
PRECISION DRAFTING AND ANNOTATIONS TurboCAD Mac Pro is also a robust design documentation tool with over 20 customisable 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 teamneed 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 slabes
Compatibibilty 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 makes includes tools to speed up your woodworking projects. You can quickly create otherwise tedious joints such as Dado joiints 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 and Groove Joints
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. Here is a sampling of 2D tools.
Polygon Tools: Slot polygon, N-Sided polygon, and polygon from curves tool.
Conic Tools, a.k.a. conic section tools, allow users to easily obtain a curve generated by the intersection of a cone with a plane.
Connect Curve Tool - Join Option: The Join Curve option replaces the two curves you select with a new spline curve. This tool will also join two Polylines.
Sketch Spline Tool: samples points as the cursor moves and creates a smooth spline through the sampled data. Once selected this tool has two options, the Sketch Spline tool and Sketch on a Surface tool.
3D MODELING TOOLS TurboCAD Mac Pro 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. Ajust the parameters of a bend, for example, without having to UNDO the design steps that have been made to the model since the parameter of that object were originally set. Each subsequent step will be applied correctly on the newly updated geometry.
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 New to TurboCAD Mac Pro v11 are a suite of tools to check and prepare a part for 3D Printing. These include a 3D Print Check, Surface Normals Check, Overhang Analysis, Wall Thickness, Preview Slices, Auto Position, Support Structure, Show Printer Volume, and Printer Definitions.
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.
Features
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 12
3D DESIGN
Split Mesh This tool allows you to divide a mesh into two portions based on a cutting plane. Split Mesh is an ideal tool for those working with faceted data along with 3D printing manufacturing processes.
Mesh Booleans This advancement provides a means to add or remove material from a mesh body. Previous versions only allowed Boolean operations on ACIS®- based solids. Now with the introduction of mesh Booleans, you can add/remove material imported from STL, OBJ, 3DS, and SketchUp.
Wrap The Wrap tool will help you place text, company logos, or complex 2D patterns onto 3D surfaces. The results are perfect for imprinting, embossing, or engraving.
PhotoRender SpotLight This new visualisation tool creates a soft shadow directly under a group of objects. This is an alternate to the default PhotoRendering method that uses a distant light offset.
LightWorks® PhotoRender Support of Imported Textures Texture materials imported using the OBJ, 3MF, 3DS, and SketchUp data translators are recognized using the photo rendering features, including screen renders as well as high-resolution output files.
Weight and Volume Tables Whether you’re designing an aircraft, automobile, or picnic table, weight is key control parameter in a design. Tracking the weight of materials is a key control parameter in design. V12 introduces a new Bill of Material (BOM) attribute specific for creating a summed weight table.
DRAFTING AND ANNOTATION
Best Fit Line and Best Fit Circle Great for tracing precise curves over rough sketches. This tool will “best fit” a line or circle from a sample collection of points.
Angular Tolerance Updates The Angular Tolerance interface has been updated to dynamically provide input from the Inspector dialog box.
USABILITY
Show/Hide Face The Show/Hide Face tool will hide faces within a part enabling access and visibility into the internal representations of complex models.
AutoLayer AutoLayer is a tool that will automatically assign an entity to a layer based on the same shape or by entity name. Use AutoLayer to help organize files imported from other applications that do not support layering.
Repeat Previous Command This “right click” feature will save you lots of time by maintaining a list of last-used drawing commands. Select an item in the list to quickly change the current tool.
INTEROPERABILITY
Now you can work with file types from these other programs:
DWG/DXF 2020 Import/Export
PDF Import
Adobe Illustrator Import
SketchUp 2020 Import/Export
Collada (DAE) Import/Export
Requirements
Macintosh® OS 10.11 (El Capitan) through to 10.15 (Catalina)*
Macintosh® OS 11.00 (Big Sur)
Intel® Mac®, 3 GB of hard disk space
8 GB RAM or greater
Mouse Pointing Device (wheel button recommended)
OpenGLCompliant video card with 256 MB VRAM.
*Program compatibility is not guaranteed for earlier operating systems. A machine with an operating system using x64 (64-bit) architecture is recommended.