TurboCAD Mac Deluxe v5 2D/3D

by IMSI

Product Features

• TurboCAD Mac Deluxe 2D/3D is the complete precision design solution that makes it easy to design anything. In a simple user interface, snap to coordinates to quickly layout precision floor plans, diagrams, and illustrations, and create detailed 3D surface and ACIS solid models without sacrificing speed. Save time with over 11,000 pre-drawn symbols and 1,000 floor plans. Import existing files in on

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 2 x 7.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B003BKIAHQ
• Item model number: 00TC3M50CC01
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 9, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,933 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #20 in Software > Graphics > CAD

Product Description

TurboCAD Mac Deluxe 2D/3D is the plete precision design solution that makes it easy to design anything. In a simple user interface snap to coordinates to quickly layout precision floor plans diagrams and illustrations and create detailed 3D surface and ACIS solid models without sacrificing speed. Save time with over 11000 pre-drawn symbols and 1000 floor plans. Import existing files in one of the many supported file formats including AutoCAD DWG/DXF for easy editing. Use new options to print designs to your specifications or export to other popular CAD and graphic formats. Perfect for designers engineers illustrators architects and more.Perfect For:Architects Engineers Hobbyists Contractors Builders Designers Illustrators Students Educators Graphics Designers.System Requirements: G4. 256 MB of RAM. 200 MB Free on Hard Disk. DVD-ROM Drive. Macintosh OS X (10.4 or greater) 32 MB Accelerated video card with OpenGL support. Leopard and Snow Leopard patible. Remended: G5. Mac OS X 10.4.5+ or later PPC/Intel. 512 MB RAM. 250 MB Free Hard Drive Space. 1 GB Allocated Virtual Memory. Inter connection and service to access some online content. Format: MAC 10.4.1 OR LATER Genre: PRODUCTIVITY Age: 730526360110 UPC: 730526360110 Manufacturer No: 00TC3M50CC01

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Turbo Cad - good product, poor support, September 11, 2011

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Sir Roderick "Anglophile" (Boulder, CO) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: TurboCAD Mac Deluxe v5 2D/3D (DVD-ROM)

If you are a total CAD novice, then don't expect sufficient tutorials with Turbo-CAD. I had to buy separate tutorials that ended up costing me more than the the TurboCAD. Once I went through those tutorials, I was able to use the product, but not without the additional support from a third party source.
The tutorials that come with TurboCAD are borderline worthless for beginners.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars turbocad for home design, February 16, 2011

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Gene Hunter (Georgetown, Texas USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: TurboCAD Mac Deluxe v5 2D/3D (DVD-ROM)

Very powerful product. Has many features. Most functions are very intuitive. Unfortunately, some don't seem to work well with my setup (iMac, 2 gig). An example being the wall/door/window feature. I purchased the product primarily for making residential layouts. When I used the wall function, the response time on my computer became very slow (watched a lot of beach balls). I finally reverted to the less sophisticated methods. Also, tutorials could be better. I don't mind spending more time watching tutorials...Turbocad's tutorials seem to be very short and almost too basic. The manual is the same...doesn't explain in enough detail. I gave 4 stars because this is a very powerful product for a good price.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars TurboCAD for MAC Version 5, October 26, 2011

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Richard W. Bump "R. W. Bump" (Blue Ridge, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TurboCAD Mac Deluxe v5 2D/3D (DVD-ROM)

I have used TurboCAD on PCs and more recently MACs probably back to version 1 on the PC, and more recently version 3 on the MAC. TurboCAD version 5 is a good program for visualizing designs and has many powerful tools; however, it does have a significant flaw. It does not handle special characters properly in the object editor. Although you can work around this by typing the data correctly the first time, if you update or find you have made an error, editing is not an option since the object editor does not handle special characters such as ' (degrees) properly. Needless to say it is very time consuming, to retype all updates or corrections and hopefully you don't accidentally click the object editor in the process. I haven't tried to see what happens when you export.
I discussed this with technical support while considering upgrading to Version 6, but this flaw also exists in version 6. Tech Support was unable to give me a planned fix date or work-around, but they did indicate it was at the top of their list.
So, my recommendation is that if you are just using this for ideas, visualizations, etc it is fine and probably a good inexpensive CAD program. However, if you are using it to design or document, beware that it doesn't handle commonly used special characters, such as degrees, properly.
My experiences with the Tech support have been good to excellent. They are very responsive.