Turbocad Professional 8

by IMSI

Product Features

• Advanced architectural and mechanical design software
• Fluent in industry standard file formats
• Produces photo-realistic results
• 2D and 3D power
• Fully programable

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006412R
• Item model number: 00TCP580CC
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,587 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

TurboCAD Professional V8 exceeds the expectations of the most demanding CAD users. It offers an unbeatable integration of CAD's most valuable 2D and 3D tools plus advanced Architectural and Mechanical design tools. It is fluent in industry standard file formats, produces photo-realistic results and is completely programmable.

FULL-FEATURED, INTEGRATED 2D AND 3D CAD

No other desktop CAD software equals the performance and ease of use delivered by TurboCAD V8. Comprehensive 2D power is seamlessly integrated with advanced 3D modeling in a familiar Windows environment. TurboCAD's new Design Director gives you total control of, and instant access to, design alternatives.

• Over 250 2D and 3D tools
• Design Director
• Drag-and-drop symbols/blocks
• Handle-based editing
• Surface and solid modeling
• Internal database
• Advanced dimensioning
• Unlimited layers
• Customizable MS office interface
• Single-click loating palettes

ADVANCED MECHANICAL DESIGN

Starting with simple profiles and shapes, TurboCAD V8 allows you to build complex 3D parts. The full power of the industry standard ACIS solid modeling engine coexists with powerful surface modeling for maximum versatility. The entire design process is accessible and editable "after the fact" with the new Part Tree feature.

• Complete 2D & 3D booleans
• Historical, editable part tree
• Shelling, lofting and blending
• Regions and profiles
• Advanced assembly
• 2D and 3D sections
• ACIS solid modeling
• Complete surface modeling
• One-step extrusions and shapes
• Complex, editable meshes

COMPREHENSIVE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Whether you start directly in TurboCAD or use the award-winning FloorPlan 3D software included with the program, you will have a complete suite of Architectural tools that give you the power to design in 2D and 3D simultaneously. Drag-and-Drop from thousands of industry symbols in 3D to finalize your designs and produce professional results.

• Self-healing 2D & 3D walls
• Wall openings for doors/windows
• Walls of any shape
• Single-click wall dimensions
• Linked 2D and 3D symbol views
• Automatic 3D roofs
• One-step sections and cross-sections
• Schedules and bills of materials
• FloorPlan 3D software included
• Auto conversion of FloorPlan designs

STATE-OF-THE-ART RENDERING, VISUALIZATION & PRESENTATION

When it's time to visualize and present your design, TurboCAD V8 delivers professional 2D drawings and photo-realistic 3D renderings. Versatile layout tools and printing options make it easy for you to analyze and present your design quickly and effectively.

• Advanced LightWorks rendering
• Dynamic rotations & walk-throughs
• OpenGL / acceleration support
• Raytrace/radiosity rendering
• Render-scene environments
• Isometrics and perspectives
• Click-and-apply materials
• Click-and-apply luminance
• Lights, shadows, reflections, textures
• Attachable cameras
• Shaped and floating viewports
• Multiple paper space

Product Description

TurboCAD v7 offers a complete design solution to builders, contractors, students, managers -- anyone who needs to create, edit or view 2D or 3D CAD drawings. Incredibly easy to master, TurboCAD v7 is also versatile and feature-rich offering interactive 3D rendering with LightWorks technology, an integrated Internet browser, and more 2D/3D CAD functionality than many more costly alternatives. Plus, TurboCAD supports multiple CAD formats, including support for AutoCAD and MicroStation file sharing, and is totally Internet compatible, making it the ideal complement to existing CD seats. TurboCAD v7 truly is an unbeatable value in 2D/3D desktop CAD.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How is AutoCAD any better?, March 23, 2002

By 

towSaint (Forest Grove, OR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turbocad Professional 8 (CD-ROM)

I love this software! Having consulted with 3 friends using AutoCAD (2 ACAD 2000, 1 ACAD 2002) I can find nothing that they can do in AutoCAD that I cannot do in TurboCAD. This tells me that either TurboCAD v8 does everything ACAD does, or the features additional to ACAD are so esoteric that no-one uses them! TCAD will be readily learned by an ACAD user, but is, in many respects simpler to use, particularly with respect to viewports. The toolbar default arrangement is handier (IMO), and portability tests (ACAD to TCAD and vice vs.) have been 100% successful. If TurboCAD lacks anything it is documentation. The documentation that comes with v8 is good (as opposed to what it was for v7) but still not comprehensive, and comprehensive documentation is not as readily available as it is for ACAD. If you want to do floorplans (in 3D) or draw cool pictures, there are documents available (for extra $$) from 3rd parties, but books on technical illustration and mechanical drafting are scarce. Overall, for those with anything but a limitless budget, I think TCAD is the hands-down winner!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buggy, September 23, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Turbocad Professional 8 (CD-ROM)

The software initially seems good as everything is easy to use and there are allot of features.

But when you take this software to a production environment, the bugs start destroying your day. Crashed and corrupted files is the biggest headache. How would you like to work on a file all day, just to have it crash and become corrupted? This happens at least three times a week for each person! We backup the drawings every hour to a new file. Why always to a new file? Well, somtimes you think you are working on a good file until you close it and then later cannot re-open it. You then have to trace back through all the versions to see when it got corrupted!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars TurboCad Professional, January 6, 2004

By 

Jim Tyvand (Bend, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turbocad Professional 8 (CD-ROM)

We started with Version 4 and continued to buy updates in the hope nuisance defects we encountered would be repaired. The frustration level became so high (IMSI sure as hell was no help), our best detailer quit in disgust. While most certainly not the only flaw, the show-stopper was lack of dimensional accuracy, in what appeared to be a random basis. As an easy example: one line, copied three times at 90 degree intervals, should produce a square that closes on itself. Sometimes Turbocad doesn't. Simply put, we couldn't trust it on the numerical stuff, and other flaws wiped out any productivity, making the whole sad affair more trouble than the system was worth.