Turbocad Deluxe V14 Precision 2D Drafting 3D Modeling | 
| From: IMSI
List Price: $99.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 803
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 8 x 2.4
MPN: 00TCD514CC
Model: 00TCD514CC
UPC: 730526357752
EAN: 0730526357752
ASIN: B000OZFDD0
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| Features:
| • | 2D Design Tools Included - Arcs, Bezier Curve, Circles, Ellipses, Construction, Lines, Double Lines, Irregular, Polygon, Lines, Multi-Lines, Parallel Lines, Perpendicular Lines, Points, Polygon, Polyline, Point Marker Tool | | • | 3D Design Tools Included - Box, Polyline, Sphere, Hemisphere, Cone, Prism, Wedge, Cylinder, Polygonal Prism, Torus, Doughnut, 3D Mesh | | • | Accurate rendering of glass, mirrors, and polished or reflective surfaces with ray tracing | | • | Array Copy for drafting repeating objects | | • | Multiple object trim and extend |
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Product Description
With TurboCAD Deluxe 14, your options are unlimited. It's packed with precision design and drafting tools including photorealistic rendering, advanced lighting effects, transparency options, camera views, 3D modeling and more! With hundreds of professiona
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| Customer Reviews:
 Turbocad 14 Deluxe - February 8, 2008
David M. Davis (The Villages, FL)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
As a hobbyist who is interested in home design and construction I have been using CAD software since the days of DOS.
For many years I had used QuickCAD from Autodesk, the makers of AutoCAD but when I moved to Vista (probably a mistake) I was forced to find an alternative CAD program as Autodesk apparently no longer offers low end drafting software.
I first tried ViaCAD from Punch and found that it was simply not to my liking. Kudos to Punch for promptly honoring their 90 day money back guarantee.
So I ordered TurboCAD with fairly low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. Kudos here also to Amazon. Somehow I accidentally ordered two copies. When I contacted Amazon, they said simply refuse shipment on the second order and we'll issue a refund. I did and they did.
With any drafting software, it takes a while to get a sense of what you are trying to accomplish and how to best go about it. I had a bit of difficulty switching from the QuickCAD paradigm to TurboCAD's but I'm happy that I made the switch.
The one frustration I have with TurboCAD Deluxe us that many of the features found in TurboCAD Pro are not available. Two that I have found missing that cause frustration are the inability to import an image and the inability to modify a line style or a cross hatch style.
IMSI does give you several line and crosshatch styles but I find that I need more dense (closer together dashes etc) styles to accurately represent my ideas.
In general, the ability to snap to a variety of objects or positions on objects is very good as is the ability to modify objects by trimming, etc.
I've yet to learn how to position construction lines accurately and I miss the ability to trim to the extent of a non-adjoining line.
I would like to see IMSI re-think their choice of what is and is not available in Turbo Cad Deluxe, or to offer Turbo-CAD pro at a more reasonable price for non-commercial use, but all in all I think that TurboCAD provides one heck of a lot for a very reasonable price.
Highly recommended if you don't mind a fairly steep learning curve (as with any decent CAD pakage).
 Seems to do the job November 23, 2008
James E Patchell (Santa Barbara, CA USA)
I am probably under using the product. I just needed a tool for making simple mechanical drawings for the projects I do. For that, I have found it is very easy and straight forward to use. I did a sample drawing (an orthographic), dimensioned it, and printed it in about 10 minutes of trial and error poking around. While doing this, I noticed no ill mannered behavior. Seems to work completely as advertised. Ran the program on both XP-SP3 and Vista SP1.
-Jim
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