TurboCAD 2023 Professional

Comprehensive 2D/3D CAD software

TurboCAD 2023 Professional offers 2D design, 3D surface modeling, photorealistic rendering and additional professional features to increase productivity and interoperability. Users already familiar with AutoCAD® will find it a powerful and cost-effective alternative. It features a customizable ribbon user interface with support for 4K monitors to optimize productivity and readability on high-resolution displays.

Projects that can be designed with TurboCAD 2023 Professional:

• Architectural drawings
• Remodeling plans
• Inventions and patent designs
• Prototypes with 3D printers
• Technical drawings
• Furniture and carpentry work
• Musical instruments
• Graphics and technical illustrations
• Product and packaging design
• 2D design, diagrams and schematic drawings

What we offer you while learning:

TurboCAD includes setup wizards, context-sensitive help, snapping features, alignment guides, handle-based editing and a flexible user interface. These features shorten your learning curve and improve your productivity and design efficiency. Your purchase includes 6 months of free technical support and access to our training tutorials, so you don't have to learn by trial and error. We are experts in CAD software development, and our tutorials will help you quickly become an expert. In addition, we offer context-sensitive help and the choice between using an offline PDF manual and our online help portal.

Key features

TurboCAD 2023 Professional is a comprehensive 2D/3D CAD software that can handle most design and modeling tasks. We offer hundreds of tools as well as a suite of intelligent, parametric architectural objects, sections and views.

• 2D design and editing:

TurboCAD offers a variety of 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-function drawing tool, dimension tools and more.

• 3D surface modeling:

TurboCAD Professional includes a complete set of 3D surface modeling and editing tools ideal for single and small assembly mechanical designs. Read more about 3D surface modeling in TurboCAD.

• Architectural & GIS tools:

An integrated set of architectural tools is included, including parametric architectural objects that are compatible with AutoCAD® Architecture (ACA), allowing .DWG models to be read, modified and documented with ACA extensions. Read more about TurboCAD's architectural tools.

• Powerful drawing palette:

Create associative views, 2D sections and detailed views that can be updated in real time - even from an Xref. Works with ACIS® solids and surface models. Read more about the drawing palette.

• Photorealistic rendering & visualization:

TurboLux is an advanced rendering technology that utilizes physically based rendering techniques. Support for PBR-compatible materials for TurboCAD is included in version 2023, with over 800 fully editable TurboLux materials in the TurboCAD materials palette. Read more about photorealistic rendering with TurboLux.

• Compatibility and file sharing:

Whether you're a lone wolf or a team, you have the interoperability you need to collaborate. TurboCAD is compatible with a variety of popular CAD and graphics formats, including AutoCAD® DWG and DXF, STL, SVG, 3MF, VMRL Worlds, OBJ, Adobe Illustrator®, PDF, SketchUp 2023 and Collada™.

New features

1. Performance, user interface & ease of use

• Updating thumbnails in the block palette
• Library palette - "Update thumbnail" dialog box
• Block palette - block insertion 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 - Adding the search option
• TC Explorer palette - Improved 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

4. Rendering and visualization

• All renders
• Render palettes
• Display and edit luminances/materials/environments with non-active providers
• Dynamic update 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
• New visual styles

7. Architecture

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

8. Interoperability / data exchange

• Possibility to control the drawing units when opening a dwg/dxf file

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System requirement:

TurboCAD Pro comes in a 64-bit version to utilize the full power of your computer's available memory to load, process and render CAD files.

• 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 Pro 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.