TurboCAD Deluxe Changelog

What's new in TurboCAD Deluxe 2019 26.0 Build 22.3

Apr 4, 2019

Customizable Ribbon Interface:
Users now have the ability to fully customize the Ribbon Interface. You can now Add and Rename Tools, Groups and Tabs. In addition, Tabs may be hidden or renamed, and manually created XML Config files can be directly imported into TurboCAD. UI Themes are also full supported in the Ribbon.
4K Monitor Support:
With new, scaleable vector icons, TurboCAD is now fully optimized for 4K monitors. Through dynamic sliders, toolbar icons, the User Interface and other icons in other part of the UI can be resized to optimize readability on higher resolution displays.
Named View Enhancements:
New functionality has been added where users now have the option of associating Layer Sets with Named Views, giving users a much better way to manage Layers Sets.
Select by Similar:
This powerful tool allows users to select any 2D or 3D object type or a Block and then find all occurrences of that in the drawing. Very detailed selections can be made that include parameters such as pen color and style, brush color and style, layer, even the selected object’s coordinate system. A great tool to use in conjunction with making further global changes to that selected object.
Construct Similar Tool:
This tool which takes properties from a referenced object and applies these to the construction of the next object. This tool provides a fast and efficient method to assign object properties such as line fonts, dimension styles, and wall properties with a single click.
PDF/Insert/Underlay:
The PDF Underlay tool allows you to insert a page of a PDF file into your drawing to use as reference or tracing layer. To use properly as a tracing layer, the file must be a vector PDF, rather than a bit-mapped PDF. As a vector file, you will be able to snap to the endpoints and midpoints of lines in the PDF underlay. Underlays consist of two parts: the underlay style and the underlay insertion. An additional tool, "PDF Underlay to Objects" gives the ability to convert an Underlay into an editable object.
Remove Overlapping Entities:
The ‘Overkill’ tool removes overlapping lines, arcs, text and dimensions, thereby allowing you to simplify drawings by removing duplicate, redundant Entities. Event viewer shows the count of objects that were changed.
Pick Point Hatch:
Pick-Point-Hatch now works with gaps in 2D objects. For example, trying to fill an area bounded by a Polyline, when there are gaps in the Polyline. Improvements to pick-point also apply to ADT objects (Walls, Doors and Windows), allowing to similarly fill in gaps between these objects.
Angular Dimension Tool:
This Local Menu option allows the user to define an obtuse or acute angle dimension based upon the user selecting a vertex point on a 2D object and then defining 2 additional points which in turn define and display the dimensioned angle.
Surface Extrude:
Users can now select flat 3D polylines or 3D curves for Surface Extrude tools such as Revolve. Also, 3D Curve and Curve (2D) are now separate tools.
Architectural Desktop (ADT) Objects:
ADT objects can now be completely and accurately used with Copy and Linear Array copy tools. For example, the Array Fit Linear now takes into account all of the properties of the ADT object being copied, including Work Plane, Layer, Materials, etc. Previously, this tool could create only one roof object. Now, multiple objects may be created. In addition, the overall processing of all ADT objects in a drawing , including the House Wizard, has been significantly sped up.
New LightWorks® rendering engine and Sun and Sky Shader:
The LightWorks rendering engine has been upgraded to v9.3. New properties "sun dir by geo-location" and "dir by geo-location" added to "Sky" and "Sun" shaders correspondingly
RedSDK to LightWorks Porting:
RedSDK rendered images are now more automatically, accurately and completely converted to a LightWorks rendered image.
AutoCAD 2019 Compatibility:
TurboCAD 2019 now fully supports AutoCAD DWG, DXF and DWF file formats
STL Filter - 3D Print Check:
A 3D Print Check option has been added when exporting an STL file. This tool checks a part for common topological errors such as: non manifold edges, duplicated and collapsed facets, open edges, shells and more. The Print Check tool also displays geometry information such as extents, number of facets/vertices, area, and volume.
FBX Filter:
Export file format for 3D Animation Software such as 3DS, Maya. MotionBuilder and Mudbox.

New in TurboCAD Deluxe 2018 25.0 Build 25.3 (Jun 27, 2018)

USABILITY AND INTERFACE:
New Interface Options:
TubroCAD 2018 boasts a new variety of excellent user interfaces including a new RIBBON INTERFACE similar to that found in Microsoft Word and the latest versions of AutoCAD. It also features an updated CADCourse INTERFACE with accelerated keyboard shortcuts for all the commands. Further for traditional users the older CLASSIC INTERFACES type are included so that no matter which interface you prefer you will feel comfortable with the new program. Various types of THEMES are supplied giving you the choice of how you want to interface to appear. At the start of the program a pop-up dialog will appear allowing you to easily choose your preference.
Keyboard Shortcuts:
Two, Three, Four or Five Key Keyboard Shortcuts:
This brilliant new feature is set to revolutionize the way people use TurboCAD! Similar to the functionality found in other products such as Generic CAD or AutoCAD, the user now has the ability to set up keyboard shortcuts that consist of either two or more keystrokes to quickly invoke any TurboCAD command. These keystrokes are sequential and do not need to be a keyboard combination.
The sequence of keys is initially invoked by pressing and releasing the Control (Ctrl) key and then a set of subsequent keys to invoke the specific command. This effectively allows the user to keep the left hand on the keyboard in the right hand on the mouse massively boosting productivity.
Isolate and Hide Objects:
This terrific new feature allows you to take a complex drawing and to quickly reduce its complexity by allowing you to select certain entities and to isolate them independent of layers or groups. In this way you can focus on the entities that you’re wishing to edit while avoiding overlapping or otherwise complicated entities. In addition to isolating certain objects you also have the choice of hiding additional objects so that you can focus only on the entities that are important during the editing procedure. When complete you can simply hit the Unhide option and the drawing will return to its previous state.
Search Option for Locating UI Features:
This excellent new feature allows you to quickly search for particular commands within the customize dialog allowing you to quickly identify either the command itself or its keyboard shortcut. This will greatly enhance productivity as you can easily customize your interface to suit your own needs by dragging the icon onto a familiar toolbar or to create a new customized keyboard shortcut that you will remember. You can type a word in the search field to cycle through the commands and materials. Buttons next to the input field highlight the previous or next suitable item. A search history is stored in a drop-down list allowing you to quickly search for that item again in subsequent. A search combo box is used is in materials, luminance, environment and advance rendering style.
2D DRAFTING AND EDITNG:
Snap Between Two Points:
Snap between two points that once chosen allows you to snap to the middle of two subsequent points, saving the effort of snapping to the center of a two-point construction circle, and then deleting the circle afterwards.
Thick Profile tool:
Applying thick profile tool with defined width and corners type options to groups of entities of lines/polylines/circles/arcs on plane. It automatically calculates thicken profiles according to width defined for original entities. It results in set of polylines, set of connected polylines (these two options are for TurboCAD versions withour ACIS), region or set of sheet ACIS entities (those two are for Pro version)
Flatten Tool:
Use the Flatten tool for 3D polylines and 3D splines to make them flat on the work plane. This command zeros out any Z values for the defining points of these entity types allowing them to be used in a 2D environment.
Trim by Entity:
This interesting new command allows trimming of multiple entities by using a single 2D close profile as the cutting edge. All objects within the defined profile are trimmed and removed. This allows you to avoid having to select multiple objects to trim to just one cutting edge.
Pick Point Hatch Improvement:
The pick point Hatch tool now has the ability to forgive small errors in design in that if a boundary line is not 100% closed you can specify an error margin distance so that the hatch command will automatically fill in the difference. This “error margin distance” is adjustable in the “Gap” value in the inspector bar and will greatly speed up hatching procedures as 100% accuracy in regard to closed curves or polylines is now optional.
3D DRAWING, MODELING, AND EDITING:
Quick Pull for surfaces:
Use the Quick Pull tool to pull or push a closed 2D area of a 3D object (TC Surface) by extruding.
Improved Coordinate Measure tool to include 3D:
In earlier versions of TurboCAD, the Measure Coordinates of the Point tool could only measure the X and Y values as it functioned like a 2-D tool fixed on the active workplace. Now, the measure coordinates tool behaves more like a 3D tool in that will show the 3D coordinate of the World coordinate system independent of the active user coordinate system.
New 2D Create option:
New option for "Create 2D" has been added for 3D polyline, 3D Spline tools. When you switch on this option, and polyline(spline) is flat then a 2D object is created instead of 3D.
ARCHITECTURAL:
Relative Angle Fields for Wall and polyline update:
While drawing walls or polylines, you can now choose to enter an Angle (which is absolute in relation to the world coordinates) or a Relative Angle which is the angle from the immediately previous segment (arc or line).
"Add Roof by Walls" Tool Improvement:
Previously, you could create only one roof object. But now there is the possibility to create more than one roof.
RENDERING & VISUALIZATION:
Lightworks 9.1 SP5:
The LightWorks rendering engine is now once again included in TurboCAD and will no longer be an optional plug-in. TurboCAD 2018 includes LightWorks 9.1 SP5, which includes the following improvements
Environments:
Scaled Image (Foreground/Background)
Sky:
Type: User Defined Sky
Render Styles:
Enchancements like "Lights only" for Lens flares, ability to minimize/maximize radius of Bounce and Gather, modify the intensity of Final Gather Controller for blurred shades, and Soft Pencil sketching are introduced in Render Styles.
Status Bar Memory Display Update:
Once the Rendering mode for a selected object is initiated; the TurboCAD status bar now displays the respective memory usage along with the processing time.
FILE SUPPORT / INTEROPERABILITY:
File Sharing with AutoCAD 2018 : Updated DWG and .DXF file import and export
3MF Export Support: TurboCAD Pro Platinum 2018 now supports export of the 3MF file type used in Manufacturing.
OTHER:
Audit System:
A new “Audit” item has been added to the Filters menu of the Selection Info Palette . This Audit System enables you to highlight ‘bad’ objects in Selection Info palette, turn on/off audit conditions and change their parameters, generate audit report for one or more objects, filter ‘bad’ objects in Selection Info palette, send notifications (about a ‘bad’ object) to Event Viewer palette.
Extents Size Property:
The Extents Size parameter has been added to the Selection Info Palette properties. Extents Size parameter works with groups, blocks and insertions. You can now use the ‘Extents size’ property to select entity according to size valuation. Select objects that you think are big or small, or an object in any range you want. The Extents Size update provides you with additional flexibility so that you can use this parameter for various needs and for analyzing possibly corrupted “wrong” entities.
Image Manager Improvement:
You can now select Multiple files from Open Dialog box when importing pictures in the Image Manager palette.
New Zoom Diagnostic Message:
A new message has been added. It appears when the user tries to zoom in or zoom out beyond the maximum zoom factor or limit.
OK and Cancel Buttons Added to Insert Fraction Dialog Box:
Improved usability by the addition of OK and Cancel buttons in the dialog box of the Insert Fraction in the Text Editor palette.
Select by Entity Type Update:
Now Circle/Ellipse item of previous TC versions is separated into two cases: Circle and Ellipse. The same is for Circular and Elliptical arcs. Previous versions could not select Circles or Arcs separately.

New in TurboCAD Deluxe 2016 23.1 Build 34.2 (Jul 14, 2016)

MECHANICAL DESIGN:
NEW 3D Slice by Facet
TurboCAD makes it easy to slice, or divide, one or more 3D objects into new objects, by specifying the slicing plane. The 3D slice tool, which offers the ability to slice by line, by plane, by workplane, and by surface, now includes Slice by Facet.
New Slots Tools. Three new slot tools for inventors, woodworking and furniture design. They include:
Slot
Circular Slot
Circular Slot By Center and Radius
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN:
IMPROVED House Wizard Tool:
The house wizard, used to quickly layout a house plan, placing and sizing each room, drop in closets, passageways, a garage, and even decking, now allows you to name each room while in the tool so you don’t have to do it after.
RENDERING:
Redsdk Photorealistic Enhancements:
New Portals - The ability to designate objects as transparent to sky luminances.
Improved Tone Mapping with interactive palette controls
New Tone mapping control in Render Manager
Improved Render Manager:
Enhancements to the UI Algorithms for improved workflow and management of Rendering Components: Materials, Luminances, Environments, Advanced Render Styles
NEW Active Drawing Components:
Render components of the active drawing can now be accessed more quickly so that if you want to repeat use of a material, luminance, environment or render style, it's now easier to access.
Improved Double Precision:
All of the numerical values are now stored in double precision. This creates greater precision and accuracy.
Faster update of some objects in RedSDK mode:
Auto-update of some objects like TurboCAD Camera and TurboCAD Light in RedSDK mode is now much faster.
NEW Redsdk 4.x Engine:
Migration to Redsdk 4.x
GENERAL:
NEW/Improved Mirror Copy Tool for 3D Objects:
3D Mirror Options are now all part of the Part Tree to more easily manage changes.
New Mirror Along Face option lets users define a plane across which the Mirror operation should be performed.
New Try to Create Single Object option, if turned on, TurboCAD will try to add the original object and its mirrored copy
NEW Backup of Open Documents on Program Close:
When this new option is on, all open documents are backed up on program close without prompting. Then when you next start the program, the same documents are automatically reloaded so that you can continue working where you left off.
NEW File Buffer:
When a file is closed or when the application is closed, this new option saves the Undo/Redo buffer and is re-loaded when the file is reopened, so it can be used from the last design change.
NEW Untitled Documents:
Documents that you have created but have not saved are now backed up using the name "Untitled" followed by a number and the date/time. This name and number corresponds to those shown in the titlebar when you are editing new unsaved documents.
NEW ISO Circle/Grid:
This new tool allows you to easily construct isometric circles.
USER INTERFACE:
IMPROVED Conceptual Selector:
Drag reference point and rotation bars with CTRL
Scale handles on boundary boxed as in classic mode
New Highlighting (Redsdk Only):
UI enhancement which highlights 3D objects and parts of 3D objects while using certain tools in Redsdk mode including imprinting, quick pull & 3D mirror copying.
New Spaces:
Manage all your spaces through the design director including model space, and all paper spaces so you can handle spaces more efficiently than the tab interface allows.
Render Manager UI Improvements:
Render Manager now support the Dark Theme
FILE INTEROPERABILITY:
Improved DWG/DXF Support:
Continued improvements to these file filters, for better results sharing .DWG files

New in TurboCAD Deluxe 21.0 Build 23.3 (May 31, 2014)

New in TurboCAD Deluxe 20.0 Build 21.3 (May 14, 2013)

New Print Window:
Enter coordinate values, or use a new pointing device to specify opposite corners of an area you wish to print. It’s a simply way to quickly print just the part of a design you wan to print.
New Super Selector Modes:
The drag mode selector has been greatly enhanced with 3 new drag modes, and one new menu item that encapsulates the old selector modes offering more precise control over object selection for faster, easier modification of your drawing.
New Rectangle Selector Mode is a bidirectional selector. It replaces the drag modes previously know as “Window Rectangular Mode” and “Crossing Rectangular Mode”.
New Window Polygon Selector Mode only selects objects which are completely inside a closed polygon. Objects outside or partially outside the polygon will not be selected.
New Crossing Polygon Selector Mode allows you to select those objects which are crossing or completely within a closed polygon.
New Fence Selector Mode selects only those objects which are touched by the open polygon or “fence” created while in this mode.
New Previous Selection Function:
This function was added to the selector dragger allowing users to quickly jump back to the last selection with which there was a modification, and restore the selection.
Improved AutoCAD 2013 (DWG) filter – Updated file filter offers a range of continued enhancements for working with the latest AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2013 files to maximize your workflow.
New STL filter – TurboCAD Deluxe (as well as Pro and Platinum) can now export 3D models to STL file format, the format read by many 3D printer software programs for rapid prototyping.
New Protractor Tool:
TurboCAD now allows you to place a virtual protractor on your drawing to more easily create construction lines in 2D and 3D. The Protractor Tool is able to work in many modes simultaneously with a powerful dynamic display.
New Stellated Polygon Tool:
Create star-shaped polygon objects in two clicks! Just as quickly adjust properties including:
Teeth Number
Stellated as wave (for rounded stellated polygons)
Radius external
Radius internal
Radius fillet external (works when stellated as wave option is ON)
Radius fillet internal
Angle of rotation
Hole diameter
Thickness (when working with ACIS 3D stellated polygons)
Improved Associative Viewport Dimensions - Add dimensions to an object through a viewport in paperspace and the dimensions will update if the model changes.
New Dimension Function - Linear and angular dimension tools now allow users to specify a fixed length for line extensions and the value for that length.
New Convert to Arcs Polyline:
Convert a Bezier or Spline curve into a polyline composed entirely of circular arcs, or entirely of circular arcs and linear segments.

New in TurboCAD Deluxe 19.1 Build 33.3 (Sep 19, 2012)

New in TurboCAD Deluxe 18.0 Build 41.6 (May 16, 2011)

New House Wizard:
Architectural design productivity has enhanced with a powerful new House Wizard tool, which makes creating room-by-room floor plans an automated and intuitive process. In addition to placing and sizing the specific rooms of your home design the way you want, the House Wizard lets you drop in closets, a garage, entry and passageways, even decking! Internal doors are also automatically created when the house is generated. Save time and generate floor plan designs based on your design preferences instantly.
New Dynamic Dimensions for Doors and Windows
Now dimensions display as doors and windows are inserted, showing the distance to and from the wall ends for easier, more precise placement. Plus, corresponding offset fields have been added to the Inspector Bar.
New Ray tool:
Create rays on the construction line layer to more clearly define your construction geometry. Construction lines are also now editable, and can be edited into rays.
New Lightworks 8.3 engine:
TurboCAD's powerful rending engine now provides progressive, ray-traced rendering, improving workflow by generating fast estimates of the image and an early preview of light settings. Anti-aliasing for geometry & materials is also improved.
New Window or Crossing Selection:
Users can now select objects with a mouse by using the Window or Crossing methods similar to AutoCAD. Drag the mouse from left to right to invoke Window mode and select only objects that are entirely within the blue window. Drag the mouse from right to left to invoke Crossing mode and select only objects that touch the green Crossing window.
Enhanced Layers:
TurboCAD 18 layers are more AutoCAD compatible, including a new layers dialog based upon 'Design Center'. Users also now have the ability to turn on/off Layers per Viewport.
Improved Fillet (2D) tool:
The updated 2D Fillet tool can re-fillet neighboring line segments, creating a new arc segment, tangent to those line segments. It works with polyline with arc segments too.
Additional Enhancements:
TurboCAD 18 provides smarter, faster drafting and detail with these additional improvements:
New Copy in Place tool works on all 2D and 3D objects.
Improved Mirror tool can mirror a block & retain text orientation.
Improved Measurement in TurboCAD now shows a measurement history (previous distance, area, etc.).
Improved Text now uses the Enter key to wrap text to the next line. Users can also pick a position on screen to start a new line.
Improved Stretch Tool updates offer greater control with improved Rubber-banding of objects and improved visualization for more precise control of stretched objects.
Improved Trim Tool now works with multilines for enhanced productivity
New AutoCAD 2011 .DWG/.DXF Compatibility
Filter enhancements offer improved file sharing with AutoCAD 2010 and 2011.
New Support for Google SketchUp v8
Updates to TurboCAD’s .SKP filter allows users to now read/write Google SketchUp files up to version 8.

New in TurboCAD Deluxe 17.1 Build 45.3 (Aug 4, 2010)

IMPROVED Layer Management – The Design Director simplifies layer management with the addition of Line Style, Pen Width and Print Style parameters to Design Director and Drawing Setup.
NEW Layer Filters - Layer filters, that are .dwg compatible, help you manage large, complex drawings with ease. Simply organize layers by a defined set of parameters. All layers which meet the parameters define by the filter will be grouped in the lower panel of the Design Director.
NEW Section Detail Tool - Enables closed 2D entities (circles, polygons, polylines) to act as a cutting contour with other intersecting 2D objects.
NEW Color Table (CTB) Print Style Support - AutoCAD® Color Table (.CTB) file support added to existing support of Style Table (STD) print styles.
IMPROVED Blocks and Groups - In-place editing of blocks and groups. Now can edit and customize individual Blocks.
NEW Index Color Support - Index Colors added to support of True Colors. Includes proper round-tripping of DWG files and the Color Dialog’s Index colors match AutoCAD LT colors 1:1.
NEW Line Width Scaling - New value “Device width” for TC pen property "Line Width Scale System" was added.
NEW Multilanguage support - It is now possible to input, edit and visualization objects name (Layers, blocks, styles, etc.) independent of the current local OS system settings.
IMPROVED Meet Two Lines Tool - Bezier and Spline curves are now supported
IMPROVED Multi-Text, Text - Much easier to now get into edit mode as editing is turned on when either the MultiText or Text tools are enabled. Able to enter larger text strings without degradation of performance.
IMPROVED Paper Space Templates – Now you can insert and extract specific Paper Spaces from other TCT (TurboCAD templates), TCW and DWG files. Also, define different printers and printer setting for each Paper Space in a drawing.
IMPROVED Pick-Point Hatching - Redesigned tool that streamlines the pick point hatch process.
IMPROVED Shrink/Extend Tool - Bezier and NURBs curves are now supported.
IMPROVED Templates - Improved Architectural and Metric templates.
IMPROVED Walls - New Link Wall Segments option added; new property, Autocleanup added.
IMPROVED .DWG/.DXF Filters - Ability to define line weights during file import; define how arc elements convert during export. Ability to read Multi-Leader objects and styles. Now possible to control Xrefs through Xref Layers.
IMPROVED .EPS Filter - Updated and improved file import capabilities.
IMPROVED .SKP (Google SketchUp) Filter – Better .SKP file export.