Windows

Welcome to the 2D Training Guide for TurboCAD^® Platinum Windows—your essential resource for mastering precise 2D drafting and annotation. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user, this guide provides step-by-step tutorials, illustrated instructions, and immersive video-animated Work Sessions to enhance your skills. Learn the entire process, from sketching and annotating to producing professional layouts, ensuring confidence in TurboCAD^® Platinum’s powerful tools. With detailed instructions and over 80 video tutorials, this guide enables users to create precise, high-quality 2D drawings with ease. Fully compatible with the latest and prior versions, it adapts to various learning styles, making CAD design more accessible than ever.

TurboCAD^®’s training guides provide step-by-step tutorials, video animations, and hands-on exercises to help users master 2D drafting, 3D modeling, and rendering. Ideal for both beginners and professionals, the guides cover architectural design and advanced modeling using TurboCAD^® Deluxe, Professional, or Platinum. Each includes the Introduction to TurboCAD^® Training Guide, also available separately. Compatible with the latest and previous versions, these guides suit various learning styles and simplify complex CAD workflows.

TurboCAD^®’s training guides equip users with essential tools for mastering CAD workflows. Whether creating precise 2D drawings or detailed 3D models, these programs offer step-by-step tutorials, video animations, and hands-on exercises, simplifying complex design processes. Suitable for beginners and professionals, they cover architectural drafting, advanced 3D modeling, and photorealistic rendering while ensuring proficiency in TurboCAD^® Deluxe, Professional, or Platinum. 

Analyze Deflection & Stresses

The Beam Analysis Tool is a Plug-In for TurboCAD^® Platinum and Pro for Windows, offering comprehensive analysis of deflection and stresses on simply supported beams under direct forces. Its intuitive interface ensures immediate productivity, while advanced features provide flexibility in problem definition.

Quickly Create Repeating Patterns

The Hatch Pattern Creator, already included in TurboCAD^® Platinum and Pro, is now available as an add-on for TurboCAD^® Deluxe and Designer users. Design and save repeating patterns. Enhance your designs with custom brush patterns.

Enhanced Rendering Capabilities with LightWorks^® Plug-in

The LightWorks^® Plug-in for TurboCAD^® significantly improves lighting, luminance, and photorealistic rendering capabilities, resulting in more robust and high-powered renders. Integrating directly with the TurboCAD^® Material Editor and Design Director, this plug-in works exclusively with TurboCAD^® Platinum, Pro, and Deluxe.

Convert PDF to DWG, DXF, or HPGL — Fast and Precisely

pdf2cad is a robust and efficient tool designed to convert 2D vector PDFs, EPS, and Adobe Illustrator files into fully editable CAD drawings. With just a few clicks, you can transform complex designs into accurate DWG, DXF, or HPGL files—eliminating the need for manual redrawing and saving hours of valuable time.

TurboCAD^®’s training guides equip users with essential tools for mastering CAD workflows. Whether creating precise 2D drawings or detailed 3D models, these programs offer step-by-step tutorials, video animations, and hands-on exercises, simplifying complex design processes. Suitable for beginners and professionals, they cover architectural drafting, advanced 3D modeling, and photorealistic rendering while ensuring proficiency in TurboCAD^® Deluxe, Professional, or Platinum. 

TurboCAD^®’s training guides equip users with essential tools for mastering CAD workflows. Whether creating precise 2D drawings or detailed 3D models, these programs offer step-by-step tutorials, video animations, and hands-on exercises, simplifying complex design processes. Suitable for beginners and professionals, they cover architectural drafting, advanced 3D modeling, and photorealistic rendering while ensuring proficiency in TurboCAD^® Deluxe, Professional, or Platinum.

TurboCAD^®’s training guides equip users with essential tools for mastering CAD workflows. Whether creating precise 2D drawings or detailed 3D models, these programs offer step-by-step tutorials, video animations, and hands-on exercises, simplifying complex design processes. Suitable for beginners and professionals, they cover architectural drafting, advanced 3D modeling, and photorealistic rendering while ensuring proficiency in TurboCAD^® Deluxe, Professional, or Platinum.

Export TurboCAD^® 3D Models to 3D PDF

The U3D and PDF 3D Plug-In, already included in TurboCAD^® Platinum, is now available as an add-on for TurboCAD^® Pro or Deluxe users. This Plug-In enables the Export of 3D models to U3D and PDF 3D Formats. These 3D objects can be interactively visualized using Acrobat Reader, allowing recipients to view and manipulate the models without needing specialized CAD software. Save and share your work in 3D PDF, accessible to anyone with the free Adobe^® Acrobat Reader.

Enhanced Rendering Capabilities with RedSDK^® Plug-in

The RedSDK^® Plug-in for TurboCAD^® significantly enhances the program’s lighting, luminance, and photorealistic rendering capabilities, providing a more robust and high-powered rendering solution. Integrating directly with the TurboCAD^® Material Editor and Design Director, this plug-in works exclusively with TurboCAD^® Platinum, Pro, and Deluxe.

Unlock the full potential of your design process with Copilot, the AI-driven companion seamlessly integrated into TurboCAD^®. This integrated AI tool streamlines navigation, expedites your project's progress, and enhances your design endeavors with insightful analysis. Copilot supports two levels: TurboCAD^® Copilot Help and TurboCAD^® Copilot Professional.           

Unlock the full potential of your design process with Copilot, the AI-driven companion seamlessly integrated into TurboCAD^®. This integrated AI tool streamlines navigation, expedites your project's progress, and enhances your design endeavors with insightful analysis. Copilot supports two levels: TurboCAD^® Copilot Help and TurboCAD^® Copilot Professional.

Design and Build Custom Furniture with Precision & Ease

TurboCAD^® Furniture Maker 23 is a versatile plug-in designed for TurboCAD^® Deluxe, Pro, and Platinum. It streamlines the creation and production of custom cabinets and furniture, offering advanced size configuration, extensive material options, intuitive functionality, and specialized tools for ceiling design to bring your ideas to life.

Civil Design Suite for TurboCAD^® is a plug-in that enhances your TurboCAD^® Software (Deluxe, Pro or Platinum versions) with tools for road design and analysis, surveying and data collection, construction documentation, map production, storm and sanitary analysis and much more.