TurboCAD 2019 Product Overview
TurboCAD 2019 has arrived! This new version includes over three dozen powerful new drafting tools to make your design experience even better. New User Interface and 2D Drafting features include Construct Similar, Remove Overlapping Entities and Select by Similar, along with improvements to hatching, polylines, and dimensioning usability and design. Of course, you will find significant enhancements in 3D Modeling, Architectural Design and File Interoperability as well!
TurboCAD 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.
TurboCAD Platinum 2019 is a brilliant collection of professional 2D/3D CAD tools to design, modify, present, and document in an integrated fashion. An optional AutoCAD® 2019-like 2D drafting interface with command line and dynamic input cursor helps professionals already familiar with AutoCAD easily get up to speed. Advanced technology—a powerful drafting palette, D-Cube constraints, and ACIS® engine —enhance productivity. Advanced architectural and mechanical design tools add even greater flexibility and control, while superior rendering controls produce powerful presentations. Plus TurboCAD Platinum 2019 is programmable and supports over 40 file formats including .DWG, .DXF, .SKP, 3D .PDF, 3MF, FBX and .STL for 3D printing.
TurboCAD Professional 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.
TurboCAD Professional 2019 is for experienced 2D/3D CAD users already familiar with AutoCAD® or AutoCAD® LT looking for a powerful alternative. It includes all of the 2D drafting, 3D surface modeling, photorealistic rendering, and extensive file support of TurboCAD Professional 2019. TurboCAD Professional 2019 also includes an AutoCAD®2019-like 2D drafting interface option with command line and dynamic input cursor that simplifies the transition from AutoCAD®2019. Plus, additional professional features are included in TurboCAD Professional 2019 to enhance productivity and interoperability.
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.
TurboCAD Deluxe 2019 continues to be the best solution on the market for new 2D/3D CAD users. It’s easy to learn and use and offers an incredible collection of 2D drafting, 3D surface modeling, photorealistic rendering, and supported file filters. Over 20 new and improved features have been added in 2019.
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.
TurboCAD Designer 2019 is the best precision design solution on the market for new CAD users. It’s easy to learn and use with quick access to hundreds of 2D drawing, modifying, and dimensioning tools that are perfect for designing floor plans, technical illustrations, flow charts and more. You can even share your work in over 20 industry standard CAD & graphic file formats including the latest AutoCAD®2019 DWG/DXF formats. Over 10 new and improved features have been added in 2019.
TurboCAD 2019 Upgrades
Here at TurboCAD Africa we like to reward our users who already own existing products by allowing you to upgrade to the latest version for a discounted rate. This makes it more affordable to always keep up with the most current version of your product.
TurboCAD 2019 Product Comparison
| Platinum | Professional | Deluxe | Designer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price (Subject to change) | R22,500.00 | R15,000.00 | R3,000.00 | R900.00 |
| 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 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – |