TurboCAD Windows Feature Comparison
Get a quick overview of TurboCAD Windows features by product level.
| Platinum | Professional | Deluxe | Designer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price (Subject to change) | US$1499.99 | US$999.99 | US$199.99 | US$59.99 |
| UI & PERFORMANCE | ||||
| Audit System – locate ‘bad’ or out-of-rage objects based upon user criterion | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| AutoCAD®-like 2D Drafting Interface Options | ✔ | ✔ | – | – |
| Command Line with Dynamic Input Cursor | ✔ | ✔ | – | – |
| Easy, Handle-Based Editing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| ePack with New Intelligent File Send | ✔ | – | – | – |
| PDF Underlay Tool | ✔ | ✔ | – | – |
| Purge Tool | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Windows 64-bit and 32-bit Compatible Versions | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Design Director – for object property management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Layer Filters | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Layer Management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Conceptual Selector | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Timestamp | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Confirm replace warning message – Added in warning dialogue | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Customize Ribbon Configuration | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Named View Enhancements | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Reset All Button in UI Theme Dialog Box | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Ribbon UI Theme Support | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| UI Scale Slider in “Customize” Dialog Box and 4K monitor support | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 2D DRAFTING & EDITING | ||||
| 2D Drawing, Editing and Modifying | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced Drawing Tools (Gear, Surface Tolerance, Text along Curve) | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Drafting and Detailing Palette – create associative sections and cut planes | ✔ | – | – | – |
| 2D Geometric and Dimension Constraints | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Associative Arrays and Pattern Tools | ✔ | ✔ | – | – |
| Arrow tools | ✔ | ✔ | – | – |
| Auto Tools (for Scaling, Sizing, Positioning, Rotating, and Movement) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Bezier and Fair Curves | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Centerline and Center Mark | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Hatch Pattern Creator & Gradient Fills | ✔ | ✔ | – | – |
| Smart and Quick Dimension Tools | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Relative Angle Field | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Angular dimension tool improvement | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Construct Similar | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Highlight End Points | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Improved Inspector Bar functionality | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Open/Close property for Polyline | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| PDF /Insert/Underlay – New for TurboCAD Deluxe and Designer | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Pick Point Hatch Improvement | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Remove Overlapping Entities Tool | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Select by Similar – Select objects with shared or similar properties | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Trace Tools – Trace By Point and Trace By Rectangle incorporated to 64-bit | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| 3D DRAWING, MODELING, & EDITING | ||||
| 3D Surface Primitives | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| 3D Booleans – Add, Subtract, Intersection | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| 3D Helix | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| 3D Splines and Polylines | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Extrude (simple) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Assembly Tools | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Sweep | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Revolve | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Advanced Blending Functionality | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Slot Tools | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| 3D Patterns from Compound Profiles | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Mirror Copy Tool for 3D Objects | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| 3D Slice by Facet | ✔ | – | – | – |
| ACIS® Faceter Surface Tolerance | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Extrude Improvement – Surface extrude for flat 3D polylines or 3D curves | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Fillet Edges (blend) Tool Improvements | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Flange Sheet Improvement | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Unbend Tool Improvement | ✔ | – | – | – |
| SOLID MODELING & ADVANCED MECHANICAL DESIGN | ||||
| Part Tree/History Tree | ✔ | – | – | – |
| ACIS® Solid Modeling | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Thread tool | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Stretch Entity | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Extract Entity | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Push/Pull Tool | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Imprint | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Law Tools – Curve from Law; Surface with Laws; Offset with Law; Warp Entity by Law | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Lofting | ✔ | – | – | – |
| NURBS Support | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Sheet Metal Tools (bend and unbend, flange, gusset and rib) | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Smooth Surface Meshes (SMesh) | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Tweak Face and Revolve Face | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Twist Entity | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Twisted Extrude, Extrude to Face Tools | ✔ | – | – | – |
| ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN & GIS | ||||
| House Builder Wizard | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Simple BIM via IFC Support | ✔ | Import only | Import only | – |
| Intelligent (Parametric) Attribute-rich, Architectural Objects* | ||||
| Walls (Self-Healing; Straight, Curved; Block Insert) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Compound Wall Definitions / Multi-Component Walls | ✔ | – | – | – |
| &nbps;&nbps;&nbps;&nbps;Windows & Doors | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| &nbps;&nbps;&nbps;&nbps;Muntins – for Windows & Doors | ✔ | – | – | – |
| &nbps;&nbps;&nbps;&nbps;Roofs | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| &nbps;&nbps;&nbps;&nbps;Slabs (Floor and Roof Slabs, now with openings) | ✔ | ✔ | – | – |
| &nbps;&nbps;&nbps;&nbps;Stairs | ✔ | – | – | ✔ |
| &nbps;&nbps;&nbps;&nbps;Rails | ✔ | – | – | – |
| &nbps;&nbps;&nbps;&nbps;Markers | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Schedule | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Schedule Tool and Wizard | ✔ | ✔ | – | – |
| Architectural Sections and Elevations (3D-to-2D documentation) | ✔ | ✔ | – | – |
| Style Manager | ✔ | Limited | Limited | – |
| Self-Trimming and Self-Aligning Blocks | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Geolocation of Drawings, Compass Rose | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| “Array tools” improvement for ADT (Architectural Desktop) objects. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| BIM Tool Improvement – BIM palette for show/edit BIM data | ✔ | ✔ | – | – |
| PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING AND VISUALIZATION | ||||
| 3D Photorealistic Rendering | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Customizable Luminances and Material Libraries | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Advance Rendering | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Caustics for Sun Lights | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Customizable Environments Library | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Luminance of Objects, Shadow Casting, Anti-aliasing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| OpenGL & Hidden Line Rendering | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Ray Tracing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Render Manager | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Shared Shader Sets – support of legacy drawings | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| UV Mapping – now includes SMesh Objects | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Volumetric Rendering Effects | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Dynamic Cutaway Plane | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Geo-located Sun & Physical Sky Lighting | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| LightWorks 9.3 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| RedSDK to Lightworks converter improvements | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| New Sun and Sky shader | ✔ | – | – | – |
| DATABASE AND PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT; CONTENT | ||||
| Blocks, Block Editor and Xref Support | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Internal Database and Custom Data; External Database Connectivity | ✔ | ✔ | – | – |
| Parametric Parts Editor for 2D and 3D parts creation and management | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Programmable SDK & Ruby Scripting (Compatible with SketchUp Ruby Scripts) | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Symbols, Part Library | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Table Styles with Property Set Definitions | ✔ | ✔ | – | – |
| INTEROPERABILITY | ||||
| Adobe 3D PDF (.U3D and .PRC) Export | ✔ | U3D only | – | – |
| 3D Printer Support via .STL Import and Export | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| AutoCAD (DXF, DWG, and DWF) File Compatibility | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Import and Open File Formats | 41 | 25 | 22 | 15 |
| Export of Coordinate Data | ✔ | ✔ | – | – |
| Export, Save As, and Publish File Formats | 34 | 27 | 23 | 16 |
| Enhanced SketchUp File (SKP) Import – geometry, views, materials, components | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| File Conversion Tool with Batch File Conversion | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Open and Save ASAT, SAT,IGS, STP mechanical drawings | ✔ | – | – | – |
| Open and Save 3DM (Rhino), OBJ, SHX (save only) , STP files | ✔ | OBJ, SHX only | – | – |
| TAP File Import – Import TurboApp files from mobile devices | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| Google Earth (KML and KMZ) File Support | ✔ | ✔ | – | – |
| Terrain Data (XYZ) File Import and Export Support | ✔ | ✔ | – | – |
| 3DM, 3DS | ✔ | – | – | – |
| 3MF | ✔ | ✔ | – | – |
| Point Cloud Support (PCD, PCG, XYZ, ASC) | ✔ | ✔ | – | – |
| DWG/DXF filter | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| FBX Filter | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| STL Improvement – 3D Print check | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |
| OTHER | ||||
| Point Cloud Triangulation | ✔ | ✔ | – | – |
| Subset Point Cloud | ✔ | ✔ | – | – |
| Network License Support | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |