TurboCAD 2023 Platinum

Professional 2D/3D CAD software

TurboCAD® 2023 Platinum offers a robust collection of professional 2D/3D CAD tools for designing, modifying, presenting and documenting in an integrated form. It includes advanced mechanical design and modification tools, a powerful drawing palette, 2D geometric and dimensional constraints, and an ACIS® solid modeling engine. It has a customizable ribbon interface with support for 4K monitors to optimize productivity and readability on higher resolution displays.

TurboCAD 2023 Platinum can help you design projects as follows:

• Advanced mechanical designs
• Architectural drawings
• Remodeling plans
• Inventions and patent designs
• Prototyping with 3D printers
• Mechanical drawings
• Furniture design, woodworking and carpentry
• Musical instruments
• Graphics and technical illustrations
• Product and packaging design
• 2D drawing, diagrams and schematic drawings
• Customized production from CAD to CNC

Important functions

2D design and editing:

• TurboCAD is rich in professional 2D/3D design tools and drawing aids that speed up design. Create views and viewports of any size and shape. Access extensive paper space and printing options. Multi-select drawing tool, dimension tools and more.

2D geometric and dimensional constraints:

• By setting up constraints in a drawing, TurboCAD users have greater control to drive the design, as 2D constraints typically affect 3D model design.

Part Tree/History Tree:

• Preserve your design history. Return to any step in your design and make modifications without losing subsequent work. Works like a selective RETURN/REDO.

ACIS Solid Modeling / Advanced Mechanical Design:

• TurboCAD Platinum 2023 offers advanced 3D surface and ACIS® solid modeling tools.

Architectural & GIS Tools:

• An integrated set of architectural tools is included, such as parametric architectural objects compatible with AutoCAD® Architecture (ACA).

Powerful drawing palette:

• Create associative views, 2D sections and detailed views that can be updated in real time - even from within an Xref.

Advanced 3D surface modeling:

• Includes a full set of 3D surface modeling and editing tools ideal for single part and small assembly mechanical designs.

Professional Mechanical CAD Native File Translator:

• Import 3D model designs from enterprise CAD modelers such as CATIA, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, Inventor, NX and ProE.

Programmable (SDK & Ruby Scripting):

• Extend functionality by developing new tools, features and behaviors. Custom routines that are executed regularly can be automated.

Point Cloud Support:

• Use your 3D scanner to collect data about the dimensions of an existing object and import the point cloud files into a drawing in TurboCAD 2023 Platinum.

Design Director Palette:

• Provides advanced controls for layers, layer filters, creating layer sets, setting and saving workspaces, controlling Named Views, and more to streamline work and increase productivity.

Photorealistic Rendering & Visualization:

• TurboLux is a state-of-the-art rendering technology that utilizes Physically Based Rendering (PBR) techniques.

Overview of the new features of TurboCAD 2023

1. Performance, user interface & ease of use

• Updating thumbnails in the block palette
• Library palette - Update Thumbnail dialog box
• Block Palette - Block Insert Parameters
• Block palette - Block preview
• Isolate/Hide tools
• Reverse isolation tool
• Improvement of the isolate/hide tools
• Library palette - Preview render modes
• Tool palette - Resizing of symbols when changing the symbol size of the toolbar
• Style Manager palette - Add search option
• Selection information palette - Add search option
• Conflict detection tool
• TC Explorer palette - Improvement of the selection of layouts in the Standard user interface
• Render Manager update
• Materials and luminance palette - New local menu items
• Save/load engine and scene preferences

2. 2D construction and labeling

• Search and replace text
• Automatic labeling
• Hiding lines for block inserts
• Improve the dimensioning of construction objects
• Connecting polylines

3. 3D design and modeling

• Exploded view
• Exploded view - visualization rendering support
• Improvement of the shell tool
• Improvement of the facet offset tool

4. Rendering and visualization

• All renders
• Render palettes
• View and edit luminances/materials/environments with inactive providers
• Display and edit render styles with inactive providers
• Dynamic updating of render palettes after switching native drawing

5. LightWorks

• LightWorks plugin

6. Visualization

• Static link with Visualize SDK library
• Material database
• Use of Visualize materials
• Use of TurboLux materials
• Conversion of TurboLux, RedSDK and LightWorks materials to Visualize materials
• Luminance support & "Use luminances" option
• Support for environments
• Adding a material library
• Light support - New options
• "Receive shadows" and "Cast shadows" options
• New visual styles

7. Architecture

• Roof - New type of cut edge: Horizontal
• Multi-level roof (broken roof)

8. Interoperability / data exchange

• Possibility to control the drawing units when opening a dwg/dxf file
• Support for AutoCAD 2023
• Support for SketchUp 2023

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System requirement

• CPU type

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor.

• 64-bit system requirements

Microsoft Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8* 64-bit, Windows 7 (64-bit) - 8 GB RAM.

• Recommended:

Your experience with TurboCAD Platinum will be greatly enhanced with a newer generation and faster processor and 8+ GB RAM.

• GPU support:

The TurboLux™ rendering engine is now included in all 2D/3D versions of TurboCAD 2023. When running TurboLux, the OpenCL (GPU-based) modes require an NVIDIA graphics card or GPU that supports either OpenCL 1.2 or higher or NVIDIA's CUDA version 10.0 or higher. It is recommended to install the latest driver updates before using TurboLux rendering.