IMSI/Design Launches TurboCAD Professional V16 Upgrade

By DE Editors

IMSI/Design is shipping a significant upgrade to its flagship product, TurboCAD Professional Version 16.

An overview of some of the new and improved features include:

• Drafting Palette—Create associative 2D sections based on standard views or sectional planes of 3D surface or ACIS solid models, including XREFs and imported models from ADT and Google SketchUp. Create nested, associative sections. 2D views may be placed in layouts, hatched, dimensioned, and annotated.
• XREF Manager—Built into the Block Palette. Manage external references more effectively. XREFs can be exported with .DWG or .DXF drawings for greater Autodesk AutoCAD file compatibility.
• Bezier Curves—New node editing options include Equal Curvatures-at-point, Non-equal Curvature-at-point, and Non-smooth-at-point.
• Dimensioning—Create standard styles for easy exchange of standard conventions. Dimension scaling in Paper Space now matches the scale from Model Space to ensure accurate dimensioning of displayed entities in Paper Space Viewports.
• Format Painter—Provides ability to automatically extract and save selected formats (even from imported files) as preset property values for any object property type.
• ACIS Solid Modeling Engine—Now updated to Version 18.
• Mesh Simplifier Tool—Degenerate (simplifies to a specific number of triangles) TurboCAD surfaces. Useful for simplifying large, imported meshes from popular 3D scanners.
• 3D Mouse Support—Speed design without having to also use a keyboard or other on-screen navigational aids.
• Enhanced Doors and Windows—Right/Left and Inside/Outside flip options are now available in Node Editing.  The following Vertical Alignment properties have also been added:  head and sill height for windows; head and threshold height for doors.
• LightWorks Rendering—Now updated to Version 7.9. It provides global illumination, final gather, tone mapping, gamma correction, lens flare, ambient occlusion, and dozens of new material shaders.
• Materials to Facet—Drag and drop materials from the Material Palette onto a 3D object's face. Quickly add multiple material finishes to a single object.
• Database Connect Palette—Data link to any data source (ODBC database, Excel, CSV, SQL, Access, Oracle, Sequel Server) on either the local machine or company network. Reference data in a TurboCAD table as well as data associated to objects. CAD file automatically updates with changes to external database.
• Google SketchUp Import has been greatly enhanced. Google SketchUp Export is a new ability to convert models into native SketchUp (.SKP) files for opening directly in Google SketchUp.

TurboCAD Professional v16 is now available at a suggested retail price of $1,295. TurboCAD Professional v16 Architectural Edition and TurboCAD Professional v16 Mechanical Edition are available for $1,395.  TurboCAD Professional v16 Platinum Edition (containing both Architectural and Mechanical Edition features) is available for $1,495.

For more information, visit IMSI/Design.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.