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TurboCAD Pro 17 upgrade from TurboCAD Pro16

TurboCAD Pro 17 is a major upgrade to this premium design software solution that’s delivered exceptional value for over two decades. Still the most affordable design solution for collaborative design, drafting, and detailing, new TurboCAD Pro 17 offers improved speed and productivity, powerful new tools, and greater interoperability than ever before!

Summary of all new features in TurboCAD Pro and Pro Platinum 17 in PDF

It's time to upgrade to TurboCAD Pro 17
The new TurboCAD Pro 17 is revved up and ready to go, offering new tools, improved speed, and greater interoperability. Here’s just a sample of what you have to look forward to:

◦Up to 60 times faster wireframe display with GPU-acceleration for smooth zooming, panning, and rotating large files!AutoCAD® .DWG 2010 file support
◦Five new pattern tools (Platinum only)
◦Door and Window Muntins support
◦Improved Xrefs: XClip support and Xref layer management
◦Layer Set management improvements and Layer Filter
◦Better Google™ SketchUp™ workflow with COLLADA improvements

With TurboCAD Pro 17 we have eliminated the Architectural and Mechanical Editions. The features of both products are bundled in the Pro Platinum edition.

Whats New in TurboCAD Pro and TurboCAD Platinum since you last upgraded

Drafting/Detailing in TurboCAD Pro 17

Blocks and Groups
In place editing of blocks and groups

Drafting and Palette Object Caching
Ability to lock/unlock section, elevation and detailed views so that they are not updated with each model change speeding up overall modeling preformance.

Index Colour Support
Index Colors added. Includes proper round-tipping of .DWG files.

Layer Filter
Layer filters help organize lazers by a defined set of parameters.

Layer Management
Addition of Line Style, Pen Width and Print Style parameters to Design Director and Drawing Setup.

Line Width Scaling
New value "Device width" for TC pen property "Line Width Scale System" was added.

Meet 2 Lines Tool
Bezier and spline curves are now supported.

Multilanguage support
Input, edit and visualize objects name (layers, blocks, styles, etc.) independant of the current local OS system settings.

Multi-Leader
New leader type with multiple arms.

Section Detail tool
Enables closed 2D entities (circle, polygons, polylines) to act as a cutting contour with other intersecting 2D objects.

Surface Measurement
New option to preform measurements of surface areas and volumes of 3D surface objects.

XClip
Added Xclip functionality comparable to AutoCAD Xclip command.

Xref Binding
Xrefts can be bound to the main  drawing. Bound Xrefs may be exploded. Xfef layer properties can be changed in the main drawing.

Multi-Text, Text
Double-click Text or M-Text to enter edit mode.

Paper Space Templates
Insert and extract specific Paper Spaces from other .TCT (TurboCAD templates), .TCW, and .DWG files. Ability to define different printers and printer settings for each paper source.

Pick-Point Hatching
Redesigned tool that steamlines the pick point hatch process.

Shrink/Extend tool
Bezier and spline curves are  now supported.

Viewpoint Explode
Viewpoints may be exploded to create flat 2D geometry, supports hidden line or wireframe views.

Tamplates
Improved Architectural and Metric templates.

3D Modeling in TurboCAD Pro 17Quick Pull Tool

Select any enclosed geometry on a 3D face and press it into or pull it our of the design. Specific draft angle and add a chamfer or fillet. Works with solid or surface.

Rail Sweep
Optionally use a compound path including vertical profile orientation relative to path.

Revolve Tool
Optionally use a compound profile that contains holes

3D ACIS modeler
Added to v17 - Updated Solid Modeling engine - improved performance, improved performance with InterOp filter (STEP and IGES) improve projection functionally.

3D Booleans
Added to v16 - Ability to select multiple entities for addition or subtractions.
 
Parametric Parts
Added in v17 - Additional functions supported in script. Beta capability to optionally import Dynamic Components from SketchUp drawings and have them converted to a Parametric Parts. 

Architectual in TurboCAD Pro 17

Walls
Added to v17 - New top and bottom wall profile modifiers. New Link Wall Segments option added; new property, Autocleanup added.

Doors and Windows. Further advanced for TuboCAD Pro version and full up-to-date for TuboCAD Pro Platinum
Added to v17 - New Muntins tool that allows for definition of type and style of window pane holder/separator in doors and windows; Added v16 - "Right/Left" and "Inside/Outside" flip option added to Node Editing making precise placement easier.

Railings. Upgrade for TuboCAD Pro Platinim only
Added to v17- Separaters materials can be defined for each Rail element. Added to v16 - More extensive pramaters for style, location, extensions and more. Attach railings or banisters to both sides of stairs at once.

Style Manager. Upgrade for TuboCAD Pro Platinim only
Define and reuse custom syle guides for architectural object types. This was expanded with v16 to include schedules, text and dimensions (both AEC and non-AEC). Added to v16 were preconfigured styles for Component Walls, Windows, Doors, Stairs, Slabs, Railing, Tables and text.

Terrain Tool
Added to v15 - Created terrain objects from selected points, with v17 terrains may be imported from XYZ or CSV files.

1st Pricing Plug-in
A BIM-oriented plug-in for pricing Windows, Doors and Skylights.

Mechanical in TurboCAD Pro 17

Geometric Tolerance. Upgrade for TuboCAD Pro Platinim only
New tool for mechanical designers that allows them to tell a machine shop/manufacturer how to machine a part.

Pattern Tools. Upgrade for TuboCAD Pro Platinim only
5 pattern copy tools which allow the user to very simply apply repeating geometries on ACIS objects. Patterns are parametric and can interact with entities through Boolean operations.

Symmetrical Constraints
Create symmetrical constraints for end points of arcs and lines. 

Rendering/Visualization in TurboCAD Pro 17

Drawing Preformance
Huge speed improvement in panning, zooming and rotating objects with addition of Redway engine. Hug speed improvement in panning, zooming and rotating objects with addition of Redway engine. 

Interoperability & programmability in TurboCAD Pro 17

Software Developers' Kit (SDK)
New example code, additions function, updated documentation, and object definitions.

.DWG/.DXF
Added to v17 - 2010  support. Index colour support. Define line weight for import.  Multi-Leader objects and styles. Support Layers Filters. Added to v16 - Support Xrefs.

Color Table (CTB) Print Style Support
AutoCAD Color Table (.CTB) file support.

.SKP (Google SketchUp)
Added to v17 - Improves export filter. Added to v16 - Export added while .SKP imports (v5, v6, v7) creates a paper source with a viewpoint set to proper visibility for each scene.

COLLADA (.DAE) /Export
Added to v17 - Major update includes layer and instances. New in v15, COLLADA offers works well with Google SketchUp, Google Earth and a growing number of other platforms.

Proxy Object support (.TWC)
Save proxy objects option allows for faster opening; TC Delux and Designer will be able to display (Pro specific) proxy objects.

.EPS
Updated and improved file import capabilities.

.STEP and .IGES
Improved file filter preformance.

Summary of all new features in  TurboCAD Pro and Pro Platinum 17 in PDF