TurboCAD LTE Pro Changelog

What's new in TurboCAD LTE Pro 8.0 Build 8.5

Jul 1, 2016

Productivity and Usability Enhancements:
New Conceptual Selector:
Manipulate and modify 3D objects like never before. The totally flexible design of Conceptual Selector allows users to customize any visual and editing parameters available in the application (eg. Move, scale, or rotate).
Improved Nudge:
The TurboCAD Nudge function now offers more efficient pick up and placement of selected object(s) using the numbers pad.
Improved Block/Group Editing:
While in block/group edit mode, users can now snap to objects outside the block or group.
More Flexible UI:
Users can now resize dialog boxes as needed for their design environment. Adjust the screen size, resolution, and more. Works with the majority of dialog boxes including general property pages, multiline text, dimensions, program setup, and Drawing options pages.
New Contact Manager & File Sharing:
Users now have the ability to create and maintain contact lists and send files to individuals or groups from within TurboCAD.
New Backup Open Documents On Program Close:
A new default option called ‘Automatic Backup and restore’ automatically saves any modified documents that you have open. When this option is on, all open documents are backed up to the backups folder without prompting, and then the program closes. When you next start the program, the same documents are automatically reloaded so that you can continue working where you left off.
New Untitled Documents:
Documents that you have created and not saved are 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 File Buffer:
A new option to save the Undo/Redo buffer of a file when it is closed or when the application closes (SEE Above) The buffer is re-loaded when the file is reopened, and can be used from the last point.
Architectural / Simple BIM Tools:
New IFC Import:
Simple Building Information Modeling (BIM) is now more advanced with the ability to import intelligent Walls, Doors, Windows, Slabs and Roofs saved in the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) format, the industry standard for BIM information.
Improve Roof Angles:
TurboCAD now makes it easy to control the rise/run and/or degrees of a roof angle.
New Slab Roof Object Types:
TurboCAD now allows users to make a roof slab object type. With one slab, you can quickly create a flat roof, or use in conjunction with new roof angles, mitering, and edge cut tools to join several slabs together and create nearly any roof style.
New Mitering of Roof Slabs:
Select two or more roof slabs and have them “meet” automatically.
New Roof Edge Cut Orientation:
A new “Edge cut” roof property for roof slabs allows users to select different methods of roof building, either plumb or square.
Improved Roof Modifier:
Now you can quickly create holes in roofs for chimney’s, skylights, etc. and trim edges of roofs.
Improved Redsdk:
TurboCAD 2015 now offers an updated Redsdk 3.5.0.2 Engine, and also now includes a New Displacement Shader in the RedSDK materials.
Improved Drafting and Detailing:
Improved Format Painter Tool:
Use the Format Painter to transfer Custom Properties and Property Set Definitions (PSD) from one object to another. This huge productivity improvement is also a crucial feature for extending BIM/IFC models.
Improved Dimension Text:
Dimension Text can be set to Non-rotatable. With this property, selected, dimension text will always face the user no matter the orientation of the drawing.
Sorted Layers in Drop Down Lists:
The Layers in the drop down and simple lists are now sorted as per the Design Director. If you change the control view order in Design Director the same ordering will be in all other Layer controls.
Improved Trim Tools:
New ability to trim hatched or closed objects and maintain the hatch or closure.
New Dimension Units Format ‘By Drawing:
Users can now globally define dimension units at the drawing level.
Improved Join Polyline Tool:
The Join Polyline Tool now works on Beziers and splines without converting them to a polyline, so that their original curve status is maintained.
New Dynamic Cutaway Plane:
Cut away plane, for looking inside a 3D model, now works in draft mode, in mixed draft and wireframe, and in mixed draft and hidden line modes.
Interoperability Updates:
Improved DWG/DXF Read/Write Filters:
TurboCAD now uses the latest Teigha engine for the conversion of .dwg and .dxf files to/from different versions. Dynamic blocks are imported as simple blocks.
New SketchUp SKP 2015 Support:
Import/export of SketchUp 2015 files is now supported.

New in TurboCAD LTE Pro 6.0 Build 9.5 (Oct 23, 2013)

New Redsdk v3 Rendering Engine:
The RedSDK engine, which takes advantage of GPU-based graphics cards for faster design navigation, has been upgraded to new v3
10 times faster rendering speed when moving objects
New “Show object while dragging” in RedSDK Draft and Hidden Line mode
Smoother “Show object while dragging” in RedSDK Wireframe mode
Rapid Update after object rotation and move
Faster Undo/Redo after object rotation and move
Manipulate "heavy" bodies in real-time in all RedSDK modes (wireframe, hidden line, draft)
New Entity Marks:
Create custom marks to track, or count, objects and add information using Property Sets and Multi-View blocks.
Property Set Definitions- Create custom information for objects, and derive custom information from object geometry.
Multi-View Blocks – Define composites of blocks that can vary their appearance depending upon the viewpoint.
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
New Gear Contour Tool:
TurboCAD Pro takes its new Stellated Polygon Tool one step further with the new Gear Contour Tool. This tool quickly creates gear shaped objects and aligns gear objects. Adjustment properties include:
Teeth number
Diameter pitch
Pressure Angle
Angle of rotation
Hole Diameter
Hole diameter
New Associative Arrays / Pattern Tools :
Now users can rapidly create parametric patterns from 2D Objects and 2D Blocks.
Improved Associative Viewport Dimensions:
Add dimensions to an object through a viewport in paperspace and the dimensions will update if the model changes.
New Export Coordinate Data:
Users can now derive point data from the geometry in models and drawings and export the data in a standard CSV format.
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.
New Drafting Object Reference Point - Manually redefine the reference points of drafting objects so you can adapt to changes in the model.
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 Customer Feedback System:
The new, optional Customer Feedback System (CFP) helps build a better TurboCAD that better meets customers’ needs. By analyzing real-world trends and patterns in TurboCAD usage, CFP helps optimize current product features, make positive changes for future releases, and better measure product performance and quality.
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 3D .PDF and Universal 3D (U3D) filters:
As a mainstay of 2D drafting and detailing, TurboCAD LTE Pro allows you to import 3D elements for final dimensioning, layout, and presentation. Now users can export your annotated materials to Standard PDF, U3D, and 3D PDF to be interactively visualized by Acrobat Reader (since version 7). You can also use TurboCAD LTE Pro as a tool to convert your 3D models directly into 3D PDF or U3D.
New/Improved Collada (DAE) filter:
An entirely revamped Collada filter with greater export and import accuracy and performance. This interchange file format offers many uses, including the ability to drag and drop a COLLADA file on top of the virtual Earth in Google® Earth.

TurboCAD LTE Pro Changelog

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