Usability and interface improvements include a new image management palette that adds drag-and-drop insertion, control of image parameters and embedding; the ability to build tables by making (non-OLE) connections to .CSV and Excel files, similar to Microsoft Word; and file metadata now includes Date of Creation, Date of Last Modification, Total File Editing Time and Total Time of Last Session.
2D drafting and editing improvements include the ability to create associative center lines and center marks; a new text editor interface with new formatting features and options, including numbered lists, bulleted lists and multi-column support; the ability to scale a set of objects to a specific size by using two reference points; and improved intelligent scaling.
New Redsdk 4.2 Engine Migration yields improved photorealistic rendering with new shaders, more realistic materials, new expanded parameters to control anti-ailiasing, caustics for sun lighting, physical sky lighting, geo-located sun positioning and volumetric effects.
TurboCAD Deluxe 2017 also has:
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