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TurboCAD Deluxe 16 New Features

IMPROVED 3D Booleans
Boolean operations use two existing 3D objects to create a new object. Objects can be combined, subtracted, intersected, or sliced. Now TurboCAD offers greater control over combining 3D entities with the ability to select multiple entities for addition or subtraction.

IMPROVED Curve
Now TurboCAD offers the ability to split a 3D Curve into two pieces. It’s handy for extracting extrusion or sweep profiles from part of a larger curve.

IMPROVED Measurement
TurboCAD now has the ability to measure the length of 3D Curves as well as the area of ACIS faces.Upgrades - TurboCAD 16 Deluxe - Building

NEW Mesh Simplifier Tool
This tool degenerates (simplifies to a specific number of triangles) TurboCAD Surfaces. It’s useful for simplifying large, imported meshes that will subsequently be rendered, as render times will be less.

NEW Helix Tool
New tool to quickly draw 2D and 3D spirals.

NEW 3D Mouse Support
TurboCAD now works with the Sandio 3D Mouse - www.sandiotech.com. Speed design as you move along and rotate about your drawing’s X, Y and Z axes without having to also use your keyboard or other on-screen navigational aids. It makes for more efficient drawing and viewing of 3D objects.

IMPROVED LightWorks® Rendering
TurboCAD now includes the Lightworks 7.9 lighting and rendering engine. This major upgrade of the underlying render engine provides dozens of new material shaders plus advanced shader descriptions.

IMPROVED Material Scaling
Now there are new methods to accurately scale materials and preview those changes on the fly.

NEW Design Director
The Design Director lets you organise, access, and explore design alternatives easily in the Design Director Palette. You can create Layer Templates, Light Templates, and Camera Templates that you name and save for use on different designs. With Categories and Graphics you can select, view and assign properties without the constraint of Layers. Switching between design alternatives has never been easier!

IMPROVED DWG/DXF Import/ExportUpgrades - TurboCAD 16 Deluxe - Desk
TurboCAD has always offered excellent compatibility with native AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT files, making it an excellent companion product. A new ability to export XREFs with DWG or DXF drawings offers even greater AutoCAD file compatibility.

IMPROVED Google SketchUp File Support
The SketchUp (SKP) file import filter has been greatly enhanced in TurboCAD v16. Not only is more information about the SketchUp model now successfully imported into TurboCAD, but supplemental rendering, lighting and materials information is imported if the SketchUp model has been rendered with IMSI/Design's IDX Renditioner product, a plug-in to SketchUp.

SKP File Import Enhancements:

  • Now supports SketchUp version 7 files
  • Units settings are now imported
  • Dimension objects are now imported
  • User may now define the Material for Block Insertions in the model and may define 'By Block' the material for models.
  • Construction Lines are now imported
  • Two new Camera properties are now imported - Perspective/Orthographic flag and the View property
  • Insertion of Custom Materials (3rd-party) is now supported
  • Horizon Colours from the SketchUp Environment are now imported
  • Soften and Smooth Edges properties are now imported

Additionally Imported IDX Renditioner properties from SketchUp model:Upgrades - TurboCAD 16 Deluxe - Spanner

  • Material Bumpiness information of SketchUp textures now imported
  • Renditioner Lights, including Natural Lighting, are now imported as Luminances
  • Shadow Casting property is now imported
  • Glow Appearance from Renditioner lamps imported as material

NEW Google SketchUp File Export
Convert your TurboCAD models into native SketchUp (.SKP) files for seamless import into Google SketchUp.

IMPROVED Doors and Windows
TurboCAD lets you simply drag-and-drop parametric doors and windows into self-healing walls. This operation is made even easier with these enhancements:

  • Precise placement and editing of windows and doors have been made easier with new vertical alignment properties including Head Height, Sill Height for Windows and Head Height, Threshold Height for Doors.
  • Editing is now easier with added “Right/Left” and “Inside/Outside” flip options added to Node Editing
  • Measuring is simpler with “Measure To Property” added. Object Materials in render property offers more visualisation options of these architectural object types.

Object Materials in render property offers more visualisation options of these architectural object types.