TurboCAD Deluxe Changelog

What's new in TurboCAD Deluxe 10.01

Mar 22, 2017

Updates for extruding text
Increased number of selctable profiles for skinned solids and skinned surfaces
Copy/Paste walls with doors/windows now implemented
Correction for Edit :Change Resolution and precise option
Facet calculation correction if threaded implementation fails due to zero polygons in a face
Correction for repeated facet generation of bad NURB surface (unneeded spinning)
Undo now does regens only objects impacted by undo
SketchUp 2017 Import now supported
SketchUP Import now supports Image Entities
Change Line Style now supported in Context Sensitive Menu
Change Line Width now supported in Context Sensitive Menu
Corrected crash with selecting walls with undefined window heights
Corrected extra regen from Inspector
Correction for transformation grouped ordinate dimensions
Copy/paste hatches now preserving color/font
Correction for remove extra hatch resulting from Copy/paste
Corrected Issue regening polygons derived from curves
Correction for the Transform along path, align, and stretch icons in 2D
Correction for drag/dropping symbol into empty file and layer reset

New in TurboCAD Deluxe 9.1.0 Build 1204 (Jun 28, 2016)

Dimension diameter, plusminus, degree characters now use AutoCAD character codes instead of font code for DWG export
Flattening a draw view with a scale, now scales the dimension balloon width
DWG export now preserves text location for angular, horizontal/ver/dim, and radial dimensions
DWG block text now preserves left/right/center justification
Mesh parameter dialog updates
Updates for Mac multi monitor support
Correction for selected Regens and missing a child add from surface object
Photorender curves option would display extra large dimensions in printed drawings
Updated hatching logic to ignore small length curves < 0.001
Correction for Draw Views and large solids which were getting clipped by OpenGL
Corrected issues flattening Draw Views with hatches inside section view with phong
Added new option key to create area hatch only for section views
Gripper now attaches and aligns to Infinite plane orientation.
Updated varaible radius/chamfer by position to show value along edge.
Exploding/converting hatches to lines now preserves line weights
Correction for always regening hatches that did not close on repaints
Correction for exploding section dimensions
Correction for union of multiple solids within Detail Views
Detail Views now retain individual part colors
Updated support for Show Only with Draw Views
Correction for zooming extent while Draw Views is active
Updates for offset section Views and Phong display method
Updated drag arbitrary Section View
Correction for line styles potentially switching styles after regen with Detail Draw Views
Undo/Redo of Draw View properties such as line styles now supported
Flag a Draw View for regen if an object deleted from drawing was also in the Draw View
Corrected an issue deactivating all activated Draw Views if nothing selected on mouse click
Corrected an issue with Model to Sheet Polylines and line font styles on Draw View regen
Correction for hatches regening in Draw Views where parent was deleted.
If you inadvertently trim a hatch curve, the hatch is exploded into an unassociative hatch.
Undo support of hatches converted to unassociated hatches.
Updated logic to no longer reverse scale dimensions when you change scale of a Draw View
Added support to clip walls in Draw View
Correction for drawing 2D text within a Draw View if it is outside the bounds
Walls text and dimensions now use a display link instead of copy for Draw Views
DWG Imported leader lines now honor the no arrows attribute
DWG Imported leader lines now support leaders with more then 2 points
Correction for groups in different Model layers for imported DWG files
Update for ellipse scaling when in a scaled block imported from DWG
Updated an issue where a solid used in a model to sheet now creates a container if not already present
Update to support delete spline or polyline point from deep select tool
Update for push/pull unassociative surfaces and turning off the surface
Deep Select a face of a surface and deleting the face, now correctly updates the color or subtype name.
Correction for a specific instance of LogiCursor center snaps staying on the screen on Mac.
Using the Right Click Menu to Change Layer for group now changes all elements in group, similiar to Edit : Change Layer.
Lower facet counts created for printing in TurboCAD Deluxe 2D3D
Removed extra polygon draw while printing
Update polygon fill logic to find correct outer boundary for polygons with inner holes. Inner holes are not supported.
Auto mesh refinements now correctly scale parameters and reduce large facetted meshes
Correction for black alpha with TurboCAD Deluxe 2D3D
Read file performance boost up to 5X when reading parts with large number of faces and edges
Gripper now attaches to the text location of a dimension when one point is selected
If a boolean does not have a child, the type is not changed, and just copy the type back into tree

New in TurboCAD Deluxe 8.0.2 Build 1137 (Oct 24, 2014)

New in TurboCAD Deluxe 8.0.0 Build 1118 (Jun 11, 2014)

Design in 2D and 3D in one easy to use application:
TurboCAD Mac Deluxe has all the powerful 2D drafting and design features of TurboCAD Mac Designer, as well as additional tools for creating 3D models and shaded view renderings.
Plus, TurboCAD Mac Deluxe comes with dozens of features to enhance usability including:
Context Sensitive Help System to get help with any tool instantly
3D Connexion Space Mouse as well as traditional mouse support
Multi-step Drawing Wizard to quickly set up your drawing
Custom Toolbar Creation for quick access to your favorite tools
Markup and Redlining Tools for 2D or 3D objects
Layers and Layer Sets to organize and more easily edit your design
Valuable Content:
Over 38,000 2D/3D symbols and parts are now included for AEC, Mechanical, Electrical, Process Plant and Piping design. Simply drag-and-drop to speed design. Hatch patterns and colors, as well as 2000 materials are also available.
LogiCursor:
The LogiCursor thinks like a drafter. It automatically knows where construction lines are typically wanted and displays them temporarily as you draw. Combined with snaps to quickly locate tangent and perpendicular points or align to x, y, z axis edges, faces or workplanes, making TurboCAD Mac ideal for modeling in 3D or quickly laying floorplans, diagrams and more.
Complete Set of 2D Drafting Tools:
TurboCAD Mac offers a large selection of 2D tools, so that no matter the situation you’ve got access to the right tool for the job. Included you’ll find line, arc and curve tools as well as circle, ellipse, polygon, and spline tools. New conic tools allow users to easily obtain a curve generated by the intersection of a cone with a plane. Plus access text and dimensioning tools, fillet and chamfer tools, 2D modifier and transformation tools.
Advanced Tools for 3D Design & Rendering:
TurboCAD Mac Deluxe goes beyond Designer allowing user to create 3D models without sacrificing speed or ease of use.
Mesh tools – create 3D mesh designs from multiple points
Surface modeling – primitive, complex and advanced surface tools, as well as surface modifiers and transformation tools are all included
New ACIS R24 Solid modeling technology - Choose from a variety of 3D primitives and access 3D utilities, solid feature tools, solid face modification tools, and more.
History Free Editing:
Easily move, scale or rotate the individual components of your parts without having to maintain a part-tree.
2D/3D Architectural Design Tools:
TurboCAD Mac Deluxe 8 includes a suite of tools to speeds architectural design, including:
1,000 pre-drawn floor plans you can customize to make your own
2D/3D self-healing walls that automatically join, intersect, and update that auto-dimension, auto trim wall vertices, and automatically create openings when doors or windows are added.
Parametric Doors, 3 styles - Single, Single Standard, or Double
Parametric Windows, 3 styles - Overlapping Sill, Standard Sill and Tight Sill
Slab Tool that attaches slabs to existing walls. Control thickness and offset.
Roof Tool, 2 types – Hip and Flat. Control pitch and thickness.
Verify your Designs:
A set of sophisticated surface analysis tools will help you maintain design integrity by providing critical information about your designs such as evaluating the smoothness of one or more surfaces, useful for identifying surface irregularities. Then choose from any of four curvature plot styles Gaussian, Mean, Min Radius and Max Radius.
Complete File Compatible & Conversion Options:
Easily import your graphic designs files into TurboCAD and turn them into precision CAD drawings with dimensions. Just as easily, export technical drawings from TurboCAD to one of the many supported file formats to share your work. You can also use TurboCAD’s powerful batch conversion tool to batch convert a collection of drawings to other file formats.
Import or export from these popular formats:
3DS, Adobe EPS, Adobe Illustrator (export only), Adobe Photoshop, BMP, AutoCAD 2013 DWG/DXF, IGS, JPG, PICT, PNG with alpha channel export, ACIS SAT, Spline, STL, STEP, TIFF, TEXT, Truespace COB (import only). Import Filters - EPS, Facet, PDF, PhotoShop, SketchUp, Export Filters - OBJ, VRML
Printing, Publishing & PDF:
TurboCAD Mac Pro offers a variety of ways to share your work. The new Print by Layer Tool is extremely useful when you have multiple sets of data within one file that needs printing. For less complex jobs, a new Print Window option allows users to simply drag the mouse over the area of your design you wish to print. Use page layouts to publish your design from up to 4 different view angles on a single page, controlling text size and more. Save designs as single or multi-page PDFs for sending via email, or export to one of the many desktop publishing formats for placement in brochures and more.

New in TurboCAD Deluxe 7.5.3 Build 1109 (Apr 16, 2014)

New in TurboCAD Deluxe 5.0 (Jul 29, 2010)

Improved Printing - New Options in Page Layout to Keep Dimensions Text Size, Keep Text Size and overlay the drawing in the Print Preview window. All enable better user control of how the printed document will look.
New Layer Sets - New Layer SetsLayers may now be organized into sets, making it easy to visually turn on and off appropriate visual aspects of a model. The number of layer sets is virtually unlimited, layers can be assigned to as many sets as necessary, and sets can be recursively nested.
New Circular Fill - The enhanced fill tool automatically creates polygons when needed, so you can add solid fills to circle objects for added flexibility in design.
New & Improved Wall Options - TurboCAD Mac’s new and improved self-healing walls are automatically join, intersect, and update to speed design. New enhancements enables auto-dimensioning of walls as they are drawn, auto trimming of wall vertices, and allows for assignment of a hatch pattern and a color to a wall.
New & Improved Door Tool - Save time adding doors to architectural designs. Simply insert one of the three 2D door styles into a wall, and TurboCAD Mac will automatically create an opening in the wall for the door. In addition, users can offset the door a prescribed distance from the end of the wall for more precise placement. The door tool comes with 3 styles - Single, Single Standard and Double.
New & Improved Window Tool - Like the door tool, users can quickly insert one of the three 2D window styles into a wall, and TurboCAD Mac will automatically create an opening in the wall for the window. Plus, for more precise placement, windows can be offset a prescribed distance from the end of the wall on which they are placed. The window tool includes 3 styles - Overlapping Sill, Standard Sill and Tight Sill.
New Block Manager - New palette which enables users to create, edit and manage Blocks. A block preview window is included. Both 2D and 3D Blocks are supported.
New Fair Curve Tool - Accurately smooth and tolerance spline curves with this exciting new tool.
New Freehand Spline Tool - Get added flexibility with the ability to create a vector spline by freehand drawing, as opposed to using user-defined points.
New Lip Solid Tool - The Lip Solid tool sweeps a profile about a collection of edges and either adds or subtracts the resultant sweep to or from the base solid. The given profile is automatically aligned perpendicular to the selected edge. In addition, a reference point is specified such that the profile is translated from the reference point to the start position along the edge selected. When the base solid is regenerated the profile is always translated from the reference position to that on the edge and then realigned.
New Rib Tool - The Rib tool extrudes and thickens a closed or open profile into a base solid. The profile is terminated up to the first face it reaches in the direction of the extrude.
New Invert Zoom for all mouse models - TurboCAD Mac v5 offers the new ability to define whether “Scroll In” or “Scroll Out” on the mouse wheel defines “Zoom In” or “Zoom Out”. Formerly, “Scroll In” could only define the “Zoom In” action, but now users can go to the file preferences and invert the Zoom command on the mouse, making it much easier to navigate in and out of a desired area of the drawing.
TC Symbols now display filename - The filename of your TurboCAD Mac symbols now displays when the cursor is passed over a symbol. This makes it much easier to identify, locate, and insert symbols, especially when they look similar in the preview.