You will benefit from more than 250 professional level 2D/3D design and drafting tools, you can quickly create home plans, technical drawings, mechanical designs, artistic illustrations, crafts, and more.

With TurboCAD Deluxe your options are unlimited. Hundreds of professional drafting and design tools, incredible file support, video and interactive tutorials, photorealistic rendering and drag-and-drop symbols provide everything you need to create presentation-ready home plans, technical drawings, mechanical designs, artistic illustrations, crafts, school projects and more.

TurboCAD is fully compatible with all these programs and file formats:
3DS - 3D Studio
BMP - Windows Bitmap
DGN - Intergraph, Microsation
DWF - AutoDesk(r) Drawing Web Format
DWG - AutoCAD Native Format
DXF = Drawing Exchange
GIF - Graphics Interchange
JPG - JPEG
PLT - Hewlett Packard Graphics Language
PNG - Portable Network Graphics
TCW - TurboCAD Native Format
WMF - Windows Metalife
WRL - VRML Worlds
WRZ - VRML Worlds

Use it for:
Woodworking
Jewelry
Quilting Patterns and Pattern Designs
Stained Glass
Deck Plans
Toy Models
Garden Planning
Doll Houses

Here are some key features of "TurboCAD Deluxe":

· Getting Started
· Breeze through a series of questions designed to create the most optimal drawing space for your needs using the Setup Wizard. Define your drawing size and orientation, units of measurements, printing scale, and view points.

· Simplified User Interface
· Display only the tools you want and need, and free up your screen space by 15%. Add, rearrange and move buttons you frequently use, and remove buttons you don't use. You can even display buttons with full explanations until you become familiar with the program.

· New Context Sensitive Tools
· TurboCAD's one of a kind, context sensitive tools eliminate unnecessary prompts and steps by making intelligent assumptions about the users desired outcomes.
· New Brush Style
· TurboCAD offers you a brush style editor for Bitmap, Gradient Fills and now new Reflected Brush.

· Improved Text Editing
· Offering a newly simplified approach, TurboCAD's text editing tools now mirror those found in other graphic applications. Simply select the text box you want to edit and the text editing palette is automatically called up.

· New 2D & 3D Text Editing
· Create and edit 2D & 3D textural information without leaving your drawing. Plus, choose from thousands of colors for text and background.

· New Point Marker Tool
· Automatically number objects such as rooms, doors or windows and is great for creating legends, call outs, or simply mapping points and adding notes to your drawings

· New Fractional Dimensions
· Three options for displaying fractional dimensions (stacked, diagonal, in-line)

· Viewports
· Rotate, zoom, and edit small specific areas of your drawing (2D or 3D) through standard or custom shaped viewports.

· Snaps
· Draw lines quickly and let snap tools automatically aligning them with the closest center point, end point or dozens of points you choose.

· Advanced Lighting Effects
· Choose from ambient, point, directional, spot, or sky light to create your specific effect! Plus, define the softness and fall-off settings of your shadows.

· Advanced Rendering
· Enjoy fast previews and rotating of your rendered object, plus choose a specific render mode depending on your need.
· Wireframe (displays all lines including lines that would normall be obstructed)
· Hidden Line (renders only lines that would normally be visible)
· Draft Render (quick preview)
· High Quality Mode (find quality mode for finished publishing)
· Extrudes and Sweeps
· Create complex 3D models by simply extruding (pulling) them from simple 2D shapes. Or use Sweeps to extrude complex shapes along a path that you define. Perect for drafting irregular objects such as pipes that must be routed around other objects.

· Complete PDF Support
· The redesigned PDF file export features now let you export paper spaces, customize PDF fonts, TrueType?, SHX, paper widths, and paper heights sections.
· Import and Export Files
· Sharing files with others and among other programs is easy.

· New Images on Transparencies
· Export your drawings into GIF or PNG file formats with transparent backgrounds. Easily place your finished object into another image or another background, without having to crop the object out of its original background.
· Versatile enough for hobbies and crafts too!
· Designed for precision but simple enough for anyone, TurboCAD can help you with your hobbies and crafts too. TurboCAD's tools are veratile enough to tackle even the most intriciate and detailed ideas.

Requirements:

· Pentium class PC
· 64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended)
· 55-212+ MB hard disk space
· 64 MB of swap space
· Super VGA (1024 x 768) display
· High Color (16 bit) graphics card
· 4x CD-ROM drive with 32 bit drivers

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