TurboCAD Pro Platinum

Pro Platinum is a premium, professional CAD package, with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions delivered to take full advantage of your hardware’s available computer memory to load, process, and render CAD files. It includes all the speed and technology of TurboCAD Pro for 2D/3D drafting, detailing, modeling, rendering, and extensive file sharing. TurboCAD Pro Platinum also provides advanced tools for mechanical design, a suite of architectural tools that are AutoCAD® Architecture compatible, and much more for greater control and flexibility.
• Advanced Mechanical Tools
• Advanced Architectural Tools
• New Associative Arrays & Improved Pattern Tools
• Midpoint & Pattern Constraints
• More Powerful Part Tree

Platinum Tools
The suite of architectural tools are AutoCAD® Architecture compatible is greatly expanded with TurboCAD Pro Platinum including many more parametric doors, windows, slabs, roofs, stairs, and rails, plus compound walls, schedules, and powerful section and elevation tools. Advanced mechanical design and modification tools offer parametric control over parts, symbols, patterns, and constrained arrays, while smooth surface mesh tools allow for easier, rapid creation of organically shaped 3D models. New UV Mapping makes it possible for TurboCAD Pro Platinum users to create more realistic and varied materials for rendering. Plus, the Advanced Part Tree is much more powerful offering greater control over each design and modification tool.

What’s New
Powerful new tools for UV mapping, smooth surface mesh editing, and creating parametric patterns from a variety of entities have been added to TurboCAD Pro Platinum 20. New 3D PDF exports 3D models to PDF for interactive viewing, and the improved DWG filter maximizes workflow with AutoCAD 2013. Dozens of usability enhancements have been added, like the ability to create entity marks to better track objects and add information. Boost performance with the updated ACIS® R23 modeling engine and get the latest RedSDK® v3 Rendering Engine making several key operations 10 times faster!

Key Features

Advanced Architectural Design
TurboCAD Pro Platinum speeds design with an extensive collection of parametric object types and shapes for walls and compound walls, doors, windows, stairs, railings, roofs, and slabs. Use the style manager to create and manage how objects are defined, look and behave, or choose from the many pre-configured styles. Accurately manage data with dynamic window and door schedules and use the sections/elevation tool to examine custom cross sections of architectural designs.

Advanced Mechanical Design Tools
TurboCAD Pro Platinum offers advanced tools for 3D solid and surface modeling. The thread tool, twisted extrude, extrude to face, imprint tool, parametric holes, imprint and more enable the easy creation of your more complicated professional designs.

Advanced Modification Tools
TurboCAD Pro Platinum includes a number of tools that enhance 3D modification for facet editing, lofting, bending and unbending of objects. These tools become even more powerful when combined with the Advanced Part Tree.

Advanced Part Tree
TurboCAD Pro Platinum greatly expands o n the Part Tree technology in TurboCAD Pro. Often referred to as history-based editing, the Part Tree can be used as a selective UNDO/REDO tool. And unlike with TurboCAD Pro basic, each of the design and modification tools, and most of the 3D primitives, may be driven by this Advanced Part Tree.

Smooth Surface Mesh 3D Modeling Tools
TurboCAD Pro Platinum allows you to use existing 3D modeling tools to create a smooth surface mesh (smesh). Users can control the resolution, smoothness and more. This form of 3D object creation allows for easier and more rapid creation of organic shapes.

Associative Arrays / Pattern Tools
TurboCAD Pro Platinum patterns are arrays objects copied in specific arrangements and controlled parametrically. Create patterns from a variety of entities and apply to spheres and cylinders, radial patterns, 3D arrays, along a curve, and on polyline for shapes that couldn’t easily be drawn.

Platinum Parametric Constraints
TurboCAD Pro constraints are enhanced in the TurboCAD Pro Platinum with two additional constraints. The first is a Midpoint Constraint, and the second is the ability to create pattern constraints.

New UV Mapping
Create more realistic and varied materials for rendering. Use UV mapping to project a 2D image onto a 3D object where “U” and “V” are the names of the axes of plane. It’s a powerful tool perfect for use in photorealistic rendering.

Plus All TurboCAD Pro Features & Tools
• New Entity Marks Create custom marks to track, count, or enhance objects. Add data using Property Sets and visual information using Multi-View Blocks
• New Export Coordinate Data Derive point data from the geometry in models and drawings and export the data in a standard CSV format.ePack
• File Packaging - Collect all associated files, fonts, and Xrefs into a common folder for easy distribution.

Plus All TurboCAD Pro Features & Tools
TurboCAD Pro Platinum is our most comprehensive CAD product for 2D and 3D design, documentation, detailing, and modeling. In addition to the tools above for greater control and flexibility, it includes all the tools found in TurboCAD Pro.
• Powerful Drafting Palette ACIS 3D Modeling Engine
• Parametric Parts Manager
• Photorealistic Lighting & Materials
• Rendering & Visualization
• Annotation Tools
• Symbol Library
• Programming
• Extensive File Interoperability

System Requirements

64-bit System Requirements:
Microsoft Windows 8* 64-bit, Windows 7 (64-bit), Vista (64-bit) - 2 GB RAM.

32-bit System Requirements:
Microsoft ® Windows 8*, Windows 7, Windows Vista**, Windows XP** - 1GB RAM.

*TurboCAD 20 is designed for desktops or laptops that meet the indicated system requirements. Windows RT technology for use on tablets is not supported.

** 32-bit version of TurboCAD 20 Pro will run on XP and Vista platforms; however, these platforms are no longer being officially supported.

Recommended:
Your experience with TurboCAD 20 Pro will be greatly enhanced with a newer generation, higher speed CPU, 4+ GB RAM, and larger display resolution and graphics support.

The optional GPU-accelerated Redsdk render modes require a supported graphic processing unit (either a chip on the board, or on a video card). The latest video drivers are typically required. Newer boards with more power and VRAM generally provide greater performance.