Overview

UPGRADE FROM TURBOCAD DELUXE VERSION 2021 & BELOW

TurboCAD 2022 Deluxe includes 2D drafting, 3D surface modeling, photorealistic rendering, and additional professional features to enhance productivity and interoperability. Users already familiar with AutoCAD® will find it to be a powerful and affordable alternative. It includes a customizable Ribbon Interface with 4K monitor support to optimise productivity and readability on higher resolution displays.

TURBOCAD 2022 DELUXE CAN HELP YOUR DESIGN PROJECTS

• Architectural drawings
• Remodeling plans
• Inventions and patent designs
• Prototyping with 3D printers
• Mechanical drawings
• Furniture design, woodworking and cabinetry
• Musical instruments
• Graphics and technical illustrations
• Product and Packaging design
• 2D drafting, diagraming and schematic drawings 

WE WILL HELP YOU USE TURBOCAD

TurboCAD includes set up wizards, context-sensitive help, snaps, alignment aids, handle-based editing, and a flexible user interface. These will shorten your learning curve, and improve your productivity and design efficiency. Your purchase includes 6 months of free technical support, as well as 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. Plus, Context Sensitive help and a choice between using an offline PDF manual and our Online help portal.

PERMANENT LICENSE
Download once and own it forever. Ideally suited for users who need a single license or users who feel they may not need to upgrade each year.

NEW COMPANION LICENSE OPTION!
TurboCAD Deluxe 2023 allows one installation.  When you purchase your TurboCAD Deluxe 2023 Upgrade, you are also eligible to purchase an additional license for half of the Regular Upgrade Price. The Companion License is perfect for using TurboCAD both at work and at home!

WHAT'S NEW IN TURBOCAD 2023

PERFORMANCE, USER INTERFACE & USABILITY

 

UPDATE THUMBNAILS IN BLOCKS PALETTE
NEW “Update Thumbnails” option has been added to the local menu of the blocks in the blocks palette. Blocks Thumbnails can be updated in terms of rendering and views. All views list and rendering types with rendering modes are available in the Update Thumbnail dialog box.

 

LIBRARY PALETTE
IMPROVED "Update Thumbnail"dialog in the Library Palette. Previously, the dialog used to open in classic UI despite of being in default UI. Now, the Update Thumbnail dialog opens up in default UI.

BLOCKS PALETTE - BLOCK INSERTION PARAMETERS
IMPROVED Block insertion parameters. Now user can define the blocks insertion parameters before inserting the blocks into the drawing. The parameters include rotation and scaling along X, Y, and Z axis.

BLOCKS PALETTE – BLOCK PREVIEW
NEW "Block Preview" option has been added to the Blocks Palette options. Now user can preview the block without inserting it into the drawing. Blocks can be previewed in all views and render modes.

LIBRARY PALETTE – PREVIEW RENDER MODES
NEW "Preview Render Modes" have been added to the symbol preview dialog for library palette in TurboCAD 2023. Now, it is possible to preview symbols in different render modes in Library Palette.

TOOLS PALETTE – RESIZING ICONS WHEN CHANGING TOOLBAR ICON SIZE

Icon sizes in Tools palette can now be resized when scaling the toolbar icon sizes in Customise window.

STYLE MANAGER PALETTE – SEARCH OPTION ADDED

NEW "Search bar" has been added to the Style Manager Palette, which allows user to find the various options contained in the properties. The search bar makes it easy for the users to search for different options available in the palette rather than finding them manually.

SELECTION INFORMATION PALETTE – SEARCH OPTION ADDED

NEW "Search bar" has been added to the Selection Information Palette, which allows user to find the various options contained in the properties. The search bar makes it easy for the users to search for different options available in the palette rather than finding them manually.

TC EXPLORER PALETTE – SELECTED LAYOUT SELECTION IMPROVEMENT IN DEFAULT UI
A NEW improvement in the selected layout dialog box has been added to the default UI. Radio buttons have been added to the Layout and Visibility sections of the TC Explorer Options dialog box. Previously, the selection of the layouts was not clear in the Default UI.

SAVE/LOAD ENGINE AND SCENE PREFERENCES
TurboCAD 2023 has made it easy for the users to copy TurboLux and Visualize settings from one computer to another. Ability to save and load render engine and scene preferences to/from a text file has been added to this version. This allows the user to edit the settings manually in the text editor.

2D DRAFTING AND ANNOTATION

FIND AND REPLACE TEXT
NEW “Find and Replace Text” tool has been added to the Edit menu. User can find a specific text in the drawing and replace it with another word with one click. With a wide number of advanced search and text options, user can search for the specific text easily and replace it with less effort.

AUTOMATIC CALLOUTS

NEW “Automatic Callouts” tool has been added to the Dimension menu in TurboCAD 2023. The purpose of this tool is to automatically add callouts (leader dimensions) to the drawing in just a few clicks. These callouts can be arranged in circular formation or along a polyline. After callouts are generated, a BOM table is created with callout details.

HIDDEN LINE REMOVAL FOR BLOCK INSERTION

NEW “Remove Hidden Line” option has been added to the Block insertion properties. On enabling this property, the removal of the hidden rows is applied to the block content. Two other properties, “Show Invisible Lines” and “Show Intersections”, become available on activating “Remove Hidden Line”.

JOIN POLYLINE TOOL
NEW local menu item “Unmatched connections” has been added to the Join Polyline tool. This tool provides an ability to join polylines that do not have exact connections i.e., the ends of the adjacent polylines either have an intersection or a gap between them. On enabling the option, the maximum distance between the polylines in the Tolerance field need to be defined for connection.

RENDERING AND VISUALISATION

ALL RENDERS 

 

UNIFICATION OF OPTION NAMES FOR ALL TYPES OF RENDERS

The names of the menu items for all types of renders in 'Program Setup' and 'Drawing Setup' have been updated to the correct names. In Program Setup, 'Visualize Preferences...' has been updated to 'Visualize Engine...'. In Drawing Setup, 'RedSDK...' has been updated to 'RedSDK Scene...', and 'Visualize...' has been renamed to 'Visualize Scene...'.

RENDER PALETTES

SHOW AND EDIT LUMINANCE/MATERIALS/ENVIRONMENTS WITH NON-ACTIVE PROVIDERS

TurboCAD 2023 has updated Luminance, Materials, and Environments Palette for showing and editing their relevant attributes with non-relevant providers. Following new menu items have been added to the palettes:

• NEW Show Materials local menu item:  'Show Materials from non-active Render Engines' has been added to the Materials palette. This option allows user to edit and assign materials even if the appropriate render is not installed.
• NEW Show Environments local menu item:  'Show Environments from non-active Render Engines' has been added to the Environments palette. This option allows user to edit and assign Environments even if the appropriate render is not installed.
• NEW Show Luminances local menu item:  'Show Luminances from non-active Render Engines' has been added to Luminances palette. This option allows user to edit and assign luminances to the objects even if the appropriate render is not installed.

LIGHTWORKS

LIGHTWORKS PLUGIN

TurboCAD 2023 now supports LightWorks plugin as an additional render mode option. LightWorks is activated using the IDRM via Install Shield custom action. The LightWorks Plug-in for TurboCAD Deluxe enhances the program’s lighting, luminance, and photorealistic rendering capabilities for more robust, high-powered renders. This plug-in integrates directly with the TurboCAD material editor and Desgin Director. 

 

 

LIGHTWORKS 9.3 SP7 VERSION

TurboCAD 2023 supports updated version of LightWoks Author 9.3 SP7.

LIGHTWORKS RESOURCE PACK

TurboCAD 2023 LightWorks plugin supports Resource Pack. These are the additional resources (images, maps etc.) that the user can optionally install on their computer.

 

VISUALIZE

 

VISUALIZE SDK (V24.2) UPDATE

Updated the version of ODA Visualize SDK to v24.2.

STATIC LINKING WITH VISUALIZE SDK LIBRARY  

TurboCAD 2023 uses static linking with Visualize. Static linking provides faster loading and unloading of Visualize. Older TurboCAD versions used dynamic linking with Visualize, which required more than 60 separate files (modules) to be loaded for Visualize to work. This slowed down the start of the render.

Whereas static linking requires only one file to work, the size of which is two times smaller than with dynamic linking. Reducing the number of required modules and their size speeds up the loading of Visualize by several times.

MATERIALS DATABASE

A couple of new changes have been made to the Visualize materials database. Visualize root category and Visualize Material Settings have been added to the Render Manager. 743 new materials have been added to the materials database. Additionally, visualize render has been added to the render list in graphic Properties/Materials page.

USE VISUALIZE MATERIALS

NEW “Use Visualize Materials” option has been added to the Visualize Engine dialog. If this option is switched on, the Visualize materials will be used in Visualize Draft render mode. If Visualize materials is not assigned to an object, then the color of the object will be used. If this option is disabled, then the color of the graph will be used, or if options “Use LightWorks Materials”, “Use RedSDK Materials” or “Use TurboLux Materials” are switched on, then appropriate materials will be used.

USE TURBOLUX MATERIALS

NEW “Use TurboLux Materials” option has been added to the Material Options in Visualize Engine dialog. If this option is switched on, the TurboLux materials will be used in Visualize Draft render mode. Visualize materials support parameters like color, transparency value, texture map, transparency map, bump map, which can be imported from TurboLux materials.

TURBOLUX, REDSDK, AND LIGHTWORKS MATERIALS TO VISUALIZE MATERIALS CONVERTER

NEW converter - a converter for converting TurboLux, RedSDK, and LightWorks materials to Visualize materials has been added to TurboCAD 2023.

NEW “Porting Options” dialog has been added to TCW 'OpenSetup' dialog. All parameters related to render attribute converter have been moved to ‘Porting Options’ dialog.

NEW "Porting materials to Visualize" section added to ‘Porting Options’ dialog.

LUMINANCE SUPPORT & “USE LUMINANCE” OPTION

Three types of visualize light shaders have been added to TurboCAD 2023, i.e., point, spot and directional.

New option “Use Luminance” has been added to “Visualize Scene” property page. When this option is turned on, it enables using the drawing luminance.

ENVIRONMENTS SUPPORT

Four types of environment shaders have been added to Visualize in TurboCAD 2023. i.e., Plain, Image, Environment Map, and Gradient. Visualize root category has been added to the Render Manager.

• Visualize Environment library with 7 categories and 66 environments has been added to the new version. Visualize environments settings have been added to the Advanced Options in Render Manager. 
• Visualize Render has been added to the Render Scene Environment page in Drawing Setup.
• Visualize environments support gradient shader. A gradient background is a blend of 3 different colors, bottom, middle, and top colors. Environment map shader is supported in Visualize now. An environment background is a type of background with a raster image on a static background and material reflections in a graphics scene.

ADD MATERIAL LIBRARY

• 10 materials
• Category: Brick
• Render engines: TurboLux, Visualize
• Model units: mm
• TurboLux Metal
• 36 materials
• Category: Metal
• Render engines: TurboLux
• Model units: mm
• Default Colors
• 66 materials
• Category: Matte Colors
• Render engines: Visualize
• Model units: In

LIGHT SUPPORT

NEW support for regular light sources has been added to TurboCAD 2023. The light types include Distant Light, Spot Light, and Point Light. New option “Use Lights” has been added to the “Visualize Scene” property page. This enables using drawing lights when switched on.

NEW light property page, “Visualize specific” has been added to the light properties dialog.

NEW option “Shadow” has been added to the Camera Properties dialog. This option, when checked, enables shadow in the view.

VISUAL STYLES

NEW visualise visual styles, “Realistic”, “Gouraud”, “Sketchy”, and “Shaded” have been added to the render modes in the Camera Properties dialog box. Realistic visual style is for the most realistic rendering including lighting and shadows. Gouraud and Shaded are with the middle lighting quality, whereas, Sketchy is used to extend geometry edges during rendering.

ARCHITECTURAL

ROOF

NEW roof cut edge type, Horizontal, has been added to the roof properties page.

MULTI-LEVEL ROOF (GAMBREL ROOF)

NEW roof properties have been added to TurboCAD 2023. Now, every roof is a Gambrel roof with roof levels. Roof level has two properties, “Angle” and “Height”. User can edit levels, angle, and height. Gambrel roof properties can be accessed from properties page and selection Information palette.

INTEROPERABILITY/DATA SHARING

ABILITY TO CONTROL DRAWING UNITS WHEN OPENING A DWG/DXF FILE

TurboCAD 2023 now has an ability to control units when opening a AutoCAD file. Previously, TurboCAD did not understand the original scale of the drawing and used to assume units in English|Architectural with a strange scale. As a solution, a new option “Use plot units as drawing units” has been added to the dwg/dxf import setup dialog.

AUTOCAD 2023 SUPPORT

Support has been updated in TurboCAD 2023.

SKETCHUP 2023 SUPPORT

Support has been updated in TurboCAD 2023.

 

Features

ESSENTIAL 2D/3D CAD SOFTWARE

TurboCAD Deluxe includes all the essential 2D Drafting and 3D Modeling tools you need for beginner to advanced needs.  It's ready-to-use with a customisable interface that adapts to your needs and workflow.  Learn quickly with set-up wizards, snaps and alignment aids.

COMPLETE SET OF 2D/3D DRAFTING, DESIGN AND MODELING TOOLS

TurboCAD employs a large selection of line, arc, curve, spline tools and other expected tools so that no matter what the situation, you've got access to the right tool for the job.  When used with TurboCAD snaps, modification tools and drawing aids, you will be able to quickly draft and document your designs.

• Drawing Tools
• Editing/Modification Tools
• Dimension Tools
• Snaps and Geometric Aids
• 2D and 3D Text Editing
• Handle-based editing for Scaling and Rotating

3D SURFACE MODELING

TurboCAD Deluxe includes a complete set of 3D surface modeling and editing tools making it ideal for both single part and small assembly mechanic designs.

HOUSE BUILDER WIZARD

This amazing time saving tool helps you create a preliminary room-by-room design of a home, complete with closets, doors, garage and even decks!
 

3D PRINTING TOOLS

Supports popular 3D printing and manufacturing file formats, including STL and 3MF filters and tools that check for water-tightness and design printability, and allow for optimized manufacturing with all major 3D printing brands.

 

TurboLux is a state-of-the-art rendering technology which exploits Physically Based Rendering (PBR) techniques. PBR models light and materials based on the laws of physics, accurately simulating the flow of light, resulting in eye-popping images of photographic quality. Support for PBR-compatible Materials for TurboCAD is included in the 2022 release, with over 800, fully-editable TurboLux materials in the TurboCAD Materials Palette. PBR Materials extend the traditional color mapping with normal, metallic, roughness, and height maps. Combined with shaders for matte, glossy, glass, car paint, and metal, these new materials enable renderings to look more realistic by simulating real world imperfections such as scratches, roughness, smudges, or noise.

COMPATIBILITY AND FILE SHARING

 

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 a wide variety of 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 provides compatibility with AutoCAD® DWG and DXF files, from R12 to 2023
• STL Import/Export for 3D printing
• SVG Import/Export
• 3MF Import/Export
• VMRL Worlds Import/Export
• OBJ Import/Export
• Adobe Illustrator® Import
• PDF Export
• SketchUp 2023 Import/Export
• Collada™ (DAE) Import/Export
• Professional, Mechanical CAD Import from CATIA, Solidworks and more

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