Overview

Personal software for "what if" engineering.
TurboCalc is groundbreaking software that enables you to simulate and solve a wide range of design and engineering challenges while making informed decisions. TurboCalc is especially effective in the early stages of design when you have the most questions and minimum information while conflicts are the easiest to detect and least expensive to fix.

Works with geometry in the same way as spreadsheets work with numbers.
TurboCalc combines the disciplines of sketching and calculations in a single application. With TurboCalc, you can easily associate geometry, dimensions, and calculations in a single flexible solution model that reflects the functional intents of the design. Then you can vary the parameters in the solution model to ask and receive instantaneous design decision-support information and optimal solution. Whether you wish to automate design calculations or simulate and validate your design challenges at the system level, TurboCalc will help you to get optimal answers in minutes instead of days.

Goal Seek exact geometry
With TurboCalc you can automatically backsolve design challenges that benefit from optimization against any stipulated design criteria. For example you can specify desired goals for parameters such as cost, weight, section property, length, distance, position, shape, or any other value that can be calculated or measures, and then have the computer backsolve the exact geometry to satisfy the goal automatically. The Goal Seek capability in TurboCalc takes the "error" from trial and error.

Leverage existing tools
TurboCalc is self-contained software that can be used standalone as well as a companion to Microsoft Office and all popular CAD applications.

If you can sketch it - TurboCalc can solve it.

Why TurboCALC?

Features

TurboCalc Key Features
TurboCalc offers a collection of facilities that have been enhanced over several years to incorporate latest computing technology and valuable inputs from users.

Sketching tools
Constraint manager: TurboCalc includes an ultra-fast constraint manager especially tailored for function modeling. The powerful point and click constraint manager can resolve virtually unlimited number of circularities. It tracks original design intents to automatically resolve plural solutions. Initial geometry can be entered within TurboCalc as well as imported from any DXF compliant CAD software using the built-in 2-way automatic translator.

Geometry definition tools: Line, Circle, Arc, Poly Line, Closed Boundary. Initial geometry can also be imported from any DXF compliant CAD software.

Constraint tools: Free point, Concentric, Centroid, Endpoint, Proportional, Tangent, Intersection, Virtual Intersection, On-Entity/Slider, Parallel, Perpendicular, and at a fixed angle with respect to another line.

Automatic Constraint inferring facility: TurboCalc includes an automatic constraint inference facility which, when turned on, allows you to snap automatically to center, endpoints, tangents, centroid, and on-geometry automatically. Lines snap automatically to horizontal and vertical.

Text tool: Allows entering notes and annotations. Use all available fonts in your computer.

View manipulation tools: Pan, Zoom, Zoom by 2X, Zoom by .5X, Zoom to fit, Show paper boundary.  

Automatic measurements
TurboCalc incorporates linear, radial, and angular dimensions that can be constrained to measure any aspect of the flexible model. The measurements are updated automatically as design intents are altered. The measurements can be directly included in calculations setup in TurboCalc Formula bar.

Calculations facilities
Formula Bar: TurboCalc incorporates a "point and click" Excel type Formula bar that is used to establish bi-directional association between geometry, dimension, values, and calculations.

Built-in calculation functions: TurboCalc includes a library of 88 built-in functions to setup in the Formula bar.

Automatic backsolving (Goal Seek)
TurboCalc allows users to stipulated any measured or calculated value as design target and then have the computer Goal Seek the characteristics of any geometry that participates in the result until the actual value of the measurement or the calculated value is equal to the stipulated target value.

Input Output

• Built-in 2-way DXF translator
• Print drawing directly from TurboCalc
• Cut, copy, and paste information from TurboCalc to Windows clipboard.
• Cut, copy, and paste information from Windows clipboard into TurboCalc
• Windows standard 2-way Dynamic data exchange (DDE)

User sensitive features

• Automatic unit checking and conversion
• Continuous discrete prompts for tools and commands
• Double precision floating point accuracy - accurate to ten decimal places
• Mouse controlled Pan and Zoom
• Multiple documentation interface (MDI) for simultaneous display of multiple worksheets
• Multiple level user definable (up to 1000 steps) Undo/Redo capability
• On-line help and tips
• User definable units library
• Work with inch and metric units, as well as user defined unit system

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Requirements

PC  :

Windows XP/Vista/Windows7
Both 32-bit and 64-bit compatible
Disc requirement
<2 MB

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