TurboCAD Designer Changelog

What's new in TurboCAD Designer 10.01

Mar 22, 2017
  • Updates for extruding text
  • Increased number of selectable 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 Animation Save
  • 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 Designer 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
  • Updates for Mac multi monitor support
  • Correction for selected Regens and missing a child add from surface object
  • 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
  • Updated support for Show Only with Draw Views
  • Correction for zooming extent while Draw Views is active
  • 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
  • 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
  • Update to support delete spline or polyline point from deep select tool
  • 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.
  • Removed extra polygon draw while printing
  • 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

New in TurboCAD Designer 8.0.4 Build 1146 (Aug 3, 2015)

  • Several stability fixes added
  • Correction for modifying arcs where start = end angle
  • Align Left/Right were flipped in the View Left Side orientation.
  • Corrected round off error with grid spacing
  • Updated Set Defaults command to copy all dimension attributes back to Inspector
  • Updated the Spline File Format to read either xyz or xy data points
  • AI export improvements
  • Fixed polygons printing problem
  • Filled polygons displaying in opengl 3d views
  • Draw View enhancements
  • Updated dwg import/export
  • Corrected an error dialog when generating model to sheet and ellipses projected into points.
  • SketchUp Import for Mac added
  • Corrects issue when offsetting polyline groups
  • Improvements for small font size printing (size < 5 points) (Mac)
  • Text glyphs to 3D up to 40x faster

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

  • AutoSave now enabled for Mac App Store Builds
  • DWG/DXF now supports importing Stacked fraction dimensions
  • DWG/DXF now supports importing filled circle/elliptical hatches
  • Drag and Drop now supports multiple files
  • Corrections for importing images on retina screens
  • Correction with rounded rectangles changing radius value
  • Minor corrections

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

  • Improved - Improved display of file previews
  • Fix - Print to PDF updates for fill patterns
  • Plus 10 additional minor corrections