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House in TurboCAD – Ronald Morake

TurboCAD Africa — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 13:34:11 +0000

House in TurboCAD – Ronald Morake The house design below was done by Ronald Morake from RN Projects and Designs cc. using TurboCAD Pro Platinum 2018. Ronald has done all his traininig on TurboCAD here at TurboCAD Africa. This is just one of the amazing houses Ronald has designed using TurboCAD. ]]>

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TurboCAD 2018

TurboCAD Africa — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 07:34:15 +0000

TurboCAD 2018

TurboCAD 2018 was released earlier this year. Below is a quick overview on some of the new features and improvements:

The main improvement is that LightWorks is back and now RedSDK is the option and not the default. In practical terms this means that rendering will again be straight forward, easy to understand and edit. It will also cut down on unexplained glitches that some people occasionally encountered.
The ability to import PDFs as vectors is improved in the Pro and Expert versions, although still unavailable in Deluxe.
There is a facility to be able to snap to the mid point of any two points, saves having to draw a line and snap to the mid-point. The tool is under Modes.

Not too many new features but a focus on reliability with a few very sensible and practical new tools. Follow this link for more on new and improved features in TurboCAD 2018.

TurbCAD 2018.5 Software Update

An update for TurboCAD 2018 has been released and it includes over 70 improvements, new features and bug fixes. Click here for a full list. This is an automatic update and you should be prompted by your TurboCAD to download it. If you are unsure if this has happened yet you can go to Help > Check for updates to check. Download a free trial of TurboCAD Pro Platinum 2018 here.]]>

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CAD in Education

TurboCAD Africa — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 10:40:36 +0000

CAD in Education TurboCAD Africa will be joining TTS CAD in Education at EduTech Africa 2018. We are very exited to announce that our CEO, Jaco Myburgh will be one of the guest speakers at the event. The topics Jaco will cover is “CAD in Education and Industry as well as Supporting Technology”. Contact us for more details. ]]>

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August 2018 Newsletter – TurboCAD

TurboCAD Africa — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 08:34:46 +0000

Hi TurboCAD User,In this newsletter you will find:

1. TurboCAD Training in Pretoria and Cape Town
2. Some New & Improved Features found in TurboCAD 2018
3. Free Architecture and Mechanical Presentations on TurboCAD
4. Featured Product – TurboPDF V3

TURBOCAD TRAINING IN PRETORIA AND CAPE TOWN

TurboCAD offers full 2D and 3D features in an array of disciplines including Architecture, Mechanical, Civil etc. These courses covers 2D Fundamentals as well as 3D basic to advanced design. Advanced industry specific training can also be arranged. Book 2D course in Pretoria – 21 & 22 August 2018 – R3795 p/pBook 3D course in Pretoria – 23 & 24 August 2018 – R3795 p/p Book 2D course in Cape Town – 28 & 29 August 2018 – R3795 p/pBook 3D course in Cape Town – 30 & 31 August 2018 – R3795 p/pClick here for all upcoming Classroom training courses in Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban. Please contact us for more info on all our training courses, methods and pricing.

TurboCAD 2018 New & Improved Features

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNaAw6mz9RI

New Thick Profile Tool

Click here for more TurboCAD 2018 New & Improved Features

Click on the link above to have a look at videos and tutorials demonstrating some of the new and improved features found in TurboCAD 2018. Please note that this page will be further updated.

Try out TurboCAD 2018 now for free

FREE TURBOCAD PRESENTATIONS

ARCHITECTURE PRESENTATION WITH TURBOCAD PRO PLATINUM 2018

Place: TurboCAD Africa, 298 Stokkiesdraai Street, Erasmusrand, Pretoria
Date: Wednesday 15 August 2018
Time: 9:00 – 12:00

Refreshments will be served.

MECHANICAL PRESENTATION WITH TURBOCAD PRO PLATINUM 2018

Place: TurboCAD Africa, 298 Stokkiesdraai Street, Erasmusrand, Pretoria
Date: Thursdaysday 16 August 2018
Time: 9:00 – 12:00

Refreshments will be served.

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Software | Training | About | Contact

Phone: 086 100 1277 / Mail: info@turbocad.co.za / Web: www.turbocad.co.za
298 Stokkiesdraai Street, Erasmusrand, Pretoria, 0181

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TurboCAD 2018 May Newsletter

TurboCAD Africa — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 10:14:13 +0000

Dear TurboCAD User, See below for TurboCAD 2018, TurboCAD Training and CAD in Education

TurboCAD 2018 Range

Buy

PRO PLATINUM 2018

UPGRADE | NEW FEATURES | FREE TRIAL TurboCAD Pro Platinum is our top-of-the-line, professional 2D/3D CAD application. Access a powerful drafting palette, ACIS® solid modeling, premium photorealistic rendering, advanced architectural and mechanical tool sets, AutoCAD®-like 2D drafting interface options, and extensive file support. Buy

DELUXE 2018

UPGRADE | NEW FEATURES | FREE TRIAL TurboCAD Deluxe is ready-to-use 2D drafting, 3D modeling, and rendering software. Easily adjust the interface for your level of experience to access hundreds of drawing, modification, dimensioning, and annotation tools. Quickly render designs for powerful presentation, share with AutoCAD and more. Buy

EXPERT 2018

UPGRADE | NEW FEATURES | FREE TRIAL TurboCAD Expert is for experienced 2D/3D CAD users. Get hundreds of drawing tools, an optional AutoCAD®-like 2D drafting interface with command line and dynamic input cursor, 3D modeling tools, photorealistic rendering, and extensive file support. Design, modify, present, and document in an integrated fashion.share with AutoCAD and more. Buy

DESIGNER 2018

UPGRADE | NEW FEATURES TurboCAD Designer is easy-to-use, precision 2D CAD software. Use the setup wizard, tutorials, and context-sensitive help to immediately get productive. Quickly draw, modify, dimension and annotate floorplans, technical illustrations, and more. Simply publish to PDF, share with AutoCAD and more. with AutoCAD and more.

join us for TurboCAD training

Here at TurboCAD Africa we offer 2D, 3D and Advanced TurboCAD courses. We host regular 2D and 3D classroom sessions in Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban. We also offer flexible 1-on-1, On-Site, On-Line and weekend training for your convenience. Book 2D course in Pretoria – 19 & 20 June 2018 Book 3D course in Pretoria – 21 & 22 June 2018 Click here for all upcoming Classroom training courses in Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban. Please contact us for more info on all our training courses, methods and pricing.

TURBOCAD IN EDUCATION

TurboCAD Africa believes in the importance of education and believes that all future designers should be taught CAD skills at school level. That is why we offer TurboCAD software and training to educators and learners at education prices. We also offer special courses geared towards the Engineer Graphics and Design subject. contact us for more info

Software | Training | Contact

Phone: 086 100 1277 / Mail: info@turbocad.co.za / Web: www.turbocad.co.za 298 Stokkiesdraai Street, Erasmusrand, Pretoria, 0181

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TurboCAD 2018 New & Improved Features – LightWorks Rendering

TurboCAD Africa — Mon, 28 May 2018 11:48:12 +0000

Improved LightWorks Rendering

LightWorks is once again the default photorealistic rendering engine used in TurboCAD. Improvements have been made to Render Styles, the Render and GI Controllers, Environments, and several other facets to rendering controls.

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TurboCAD Training at Crawford College Pretoria

TurboCAD Africa — Fri, 25 May 2018 06:46:40 +0000

TurboCAD Training at Crawford College Pretoria TurboCAD Africa would like to thank Crawford College Pretoria for ginving us the opportunity to have presented a 2D fundamentals course in TurboCAD to their Grade 10 EGD students. We believe that any EGD (Engineering Graphics and Design) learner should leave school with basic skills in CAD (Computer Aided Design). By offering their learners the opportunity to learn 2D as well as 3D CAD skills at school Crawford College Pretoria are really giving them a boost for their futures. ]]>

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TurboCAD 2018 New Features – New & Improved Interface Options

TurboCAD Africa — Wed, 16 May 2018 09:41:29 +0000

New and Imptoved Interface Options

New and Improved Interface Options – TurboCAD 2018 boasts a new variety of excellent user interfaces including a new Ribbon Interface similar to that found in Microsoft Word and the other applications. It also features an updated CADCourse Interface with accelerated keyboard shortcuts for all the commands.

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New Ribbon Interface

Updated CADCourse Interface

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TurboCAD Training at Vesco Plastics in Virginia

TurboCAD Africa — Mon, 14 May 2018 11:28:10 +0000

TurboCAD Africa had a great 2D and 3D TurboCAD training course with the guys from Vesconite in Virginia, Freestate.

We would like to thank everyone at Vesconite for a great week of training.

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IMSI Design Releases TurboCAD 2018

TurboCAD Africa — Mon, 07 May 2018 14:00:38 +0000

IMSI Design REleases TurboCAD 2018 NOVATO, Calif., May 3, 2018 – IMSI^®Design, a leading CAD software developer, announced today the release of its TurboCAD 2018 line , including Pro Platinum, Expert, Deluxe and Designer versions for Windows^®desktop PCs. TurboCAD 2018 includes over three dozen new and improved features. “This year’s release places an emphasis on usability and design efficiency for both 2D and 3D work and include a new Ribbon interface, a greatly improved ability to create and assign keyboard shortcuts, a quick pull tool that now works with surfaces , as well a greater ability to work with vector PDF files ,stated Bob Mayer, President of IMSI Design.” “With the new Universal Build technology we’ve incorporated into TurboCAD, we are now able to launch all TurboCAD versions simultaneously, something we believe our customers will really appreciate, “added Mayer To view videos showcasing the product’s new and enhanced features, click here. An overview of these new and improved features include (please see www.TurboCAD.co.za for a complete listing):

Usability & Interface

New and Improved Interface Options – In addition to the new Ribbon option, the popular CADCourse interface has been updated.
Keyboard Shortcuts – Similar to the functionality found in other CAD products, users now have the ability to set up keyboard short cuts that consist of either two or more keystrokes to quickly invoke any TurboCAD command. These keystrokes are sequential and do not need to be a keyboard combination.
Isolate and Hide Objects – This terrific new feature allows users to take a complex drawing and to quickly reduce its complexity by allowing them to select certain entities and to isolate them independent of layers or groups. Users also have the choice of hiding objects so that you can focus only on the entities that are important during the editing procedure.
Search Option for Locating UI Features – This new feature allows users to quickly search for particular commands within the Customize dialog, allowing the user to quickly identify either the command itself or its keyboard shortcut. With this, users can easily customize their interface to suit their own needs by dragging the icon onto a familiar toolbar or by creating a new customized keyboard shortcut commands

2D Drafting and Editing

PDF Underlay Improvement – A new tool “PDF underlay to Objects” has been implemented. It gives the ability to convert an Underlay into an editable object.
Snap Between Two Points – New text editor interface with new formatting features and new options including numbered lists, bulleted lists, and multi-column support.
Thick Profile Tool – Scale a set of objects to a specific size by using two reference points.
Flatten Tool – Use the Flatten tool for 3D polylines and 3D splines to make them flat on the work plane.

3D Drawing, Modeling, and Editing

New Quick Pull for Surfaces – No longer is this handy tool limited to ACIS, solid models, it can pull or push a closed 2D area of a 3D object (TC Surface).
Sheet Thicken Capability – Used in Shelling, this tool allows you to turn 2D entities, either closed or open, into flat 2D sheets and then to give them a 3D thickness by using the thicken feature of Shell tool. Further, it is possible to thicken the sheet in two directions by adjusting settings on the inspector.
Improved Coordinate Measurements – In prior versions of TurboCAD, the Measure Coordinates of the Point tool could only measure the X and Y values Now, the Measure Coordinates tool behaves more like a 3D tool in that will show the 3D coordinate of the World coordinate system independent of the active user coordinate system.

Architectural

Add Roof by Walls Improvement – Previously, this tool could create only one roof object. Now, multiple objects may be created.
Expanded Support for IFC Object Types – Over 40 different object types are now supported for IFC Import to or Export from TurboCAD.
BIM Tool Enhancements – Edit property sets imported from IFC files, and define any TurboCAD entity as the corresponding desired IFC entity and establish the appropriate property set export to IFC.
Relative Angle fields for Wall and Polyline update – While drawing walls or polylines, you can now choose to enter an Angle (which is absolute in relation to the world coordinates) or a Relative Angle which is the angle from the immediately previous segment (arc or line).

Photorealistic Rendering and Visualization

Improved LightWorks Rendering – LightWorks is once again the default photorealistic rendering engine used in TurboCAD. Improvements have been made to Render Styles, the Render and GI Controllers, Environments, and several other facets to rendering controls.
New Redsdk 4.3 Engine Migration – Improved and interactive Color Adjustments, Filters and Sketch Rendering. Note: Redsdk is now offered as an optional plug-in Tur TurboCAD.

File Support / Interoperability

AutoCAD 2018 compatibility Improved AutoCAD (DXF, DWG, and DWF) File Compatibility – Implementation of the latest Teigha engine.
Import 2D PDF Page as a Vector Page – 2D Vector PDF files can now be directly imported into TurboCAD as a vector page. The file can be imported as either a TurboCAD Object or Group of Graphics.
New 3MF file Export – for manufacturing.
3DS, STEP, Rhino and U3D improvements – For Import and Export.

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