Spring is the ideal season to breathe new life into your garden. With warmer temperatures and longer days, it’s the...
Spring is the ideal season to breathe new life into your garden. With warmer temperatures and longer days, it’s the...
A well-organized kitchen is essential for creating a modern and stylish home. When items are properly arranged and...
Perfect placement of bathroom accessories is a defining element in creating a beautiful, luxurious, and...
NOVATO, Calif. – February 3, 2026 – IMSI® Design, a global leader in CAD software solutions, is pleased to introduce...
A well-organized kitchen is essential for creating a modern and stylish home. When items are properly arranged and...
Perfect placement of bathroom accessories is a defining element in creating a beautiful, luxurious, and...
Redesigning a living space is more than just changing furniture or colours - it is about creating an environment that...
The Sheet Metal tools in the application offer a comprehensive set of features for designing and editing sheet metal...
If you're looking to add more realism to your designs, the new Physically Based Rendering (PBR) texture packs are a...
Trace Tools has equipped TurboCAD with the capability to transform 2D raster images into vector tracings, a process that is invaluable for architects, engineers, and designers alike. Available in the Platinum, Professional, and Deluxe versions of TurboCAD, the Trace Tools offer a robust set of functionalities:
Three Blend Types: 1) Curvature continuous blending to create the explicit blends. The blend surface will be curvature-continuous with both faces. To make it you should
As a TurboCAD owner, If you want to learn either about how to use TurboCAD or learn more about how to use it more effectively, you have numerous options open to you. Beyond reading either the PDF manual or the online User Guide, learning resources are available to you in a multitude of media and formats.
Here’s a word or two about Best Practices and SCALE in TurboCAD. If you are an old codger like me, who started on drafting boards with T-squares and triangles, and you still can’t forget the acrid chemical smell of the blueprint machine, you were taught to draw to by scaling to fit. Then you carefully noted the scale factor (1:10, 1” = 1’, 2cm = 1km etc.) down in the corner of the drawing. You may even have had a special set of rulers that short-cut the mathematical metal gymnastics. So, it...
One of the defining strengths of TurboCAD is its flexibility in adapting to various design disciplines—from architectural layouts to mechanical schematics. And among the suite of tools designed for precision and efficiency, Ortho Snap/Mode paired with a customized Angular Step
The Remove Overlapping Entities tool is a command that can be accessed from the Modify menu, or by typing OVERKILL on the command line. This tool analyzes the selected objects in your drawing and identifies any overlapping or duplicate entities, such as lines, arcs, polylines, circles, text, dimensions, etc. It then deletes the redundant entities and preserves the remaining ones, resulting in a cleaner and simpler drawing.
In today's era of high-definition visuals and ultra-sharp displays, software must evolve to meet the demands of modern hardware. TurboCAD rises to this challenge with a refined, scalable user interface specifically designed for 4K and high-resolution monitors. Whether you’re an architect, engineer, or designer, you can expect a seamless, visually comfortable experience across all screen sizes.
The Design Director is a powerful and convenient palette in TurboCAD that helps you streamline your work and enhance your productivity. It offers advanced controls for managing Layers, Work Planes, Views, Cameras, and Lighting. It is suitable for both Mechanical and Architectural designs, and it is compatible with AutoCAD.
Once you’ve made the decision to use TurboCAD, this guide will help you get started by outlining the few differences in jargon, commands, and tools. Here is just some of the information you’ll find:
One of the most powerful, yet least known tools in professional versions of TurboCAD is the Drafting Palette. The Drafting Palette is used for the creation of 2D construction and manufacturing documents from 3D designs, including ACIS® solids and 3D surfaces. It can be used in conjunction with both 3D Architectural and Mechanical designs.
