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IMSI/Design, LLC, a private company headquartered in Novato, CA, is the global leader in retail CAD (Computer Aided Design). IMSI/Design products include the award-winning TurboCAD®, TurboFLOORPLAN™, TurboSketch™, and DesignCAD™ families of precision design applications.
Originally named International Microcomputer Software, Inc., the company was founded in 1983 by Bob Mayer as a publisher of popular graphics software such as PC Paintbrush and Dr. Halo. IMSI branched into the precision drawing marketplace with TurboCAD in the late 80's and FloorPlan and DesignCAD in the early 90's. IMSI/Design, LLC was formed in 2006 when an investor group led by software industry veteran Royal Farros purchased the precision drawing group from Broadcaster, Inc. (formerly known as IMSI). Look to IMSI/Design to bring leadership to new, innovative areas of CAD, such as support for the exploding metaverse and popular platforms such as AutoCAD. |
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Do more, faster than ever before with new TurboCAD® 17!
IMSI/Design is excited to announce the release of
TurboCAD Pro v17. New TurboCAD Pro is the most affordable solution for collaborative design, drafting, and detailing, and comes with improved speed, powerful new tools, and greater interoperability than ever before.
Please note that there will not be a new version of TurboCAD Pro Architectural Edition and TurboCAD Pro Mechanical Edition, but that you will get the additional toolsets of these two products in new
TurboCAD Pro Platinum v17. Also new is
TurboCAD Deluxe v17.
Improved Speed and Productivity
We're very excited about our new, turbo-charged drawing engine (which takes advantage of GPU-based graphics cards for lightning-fast wireframe display) and a host of new functionality improvements.
- GPU-accelerated wireframe display (up to 60 times faster!)
- Smooth zooming, panning, rotating, and moving
- Easier and more powerful layer management
- Viewports that can be exploded, creating flat 2D views
- Fewer clicks, less setup, and much more!
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Do more, faster than ever before with new TurboCAD® 17!
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Still the most affordable solution for collaborative design, drafting, and detailing, new TurboCAD 17 offers improved speed, powerful new tools, and greater interoperability than ever before!
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Powerful New and Improved Design Tools
Let your creativity flow and draw what before you could only imagine.
- Five New Pattern tools (Platinum version only)
- New and Improved Architectural tools
- Improved Drafting and Detailing tools
Greater Interoperability
New & improved file filters give you better ways to collaborate with others.
- Work with the latest AutoCAD® DWG 2010 format files
- More powerful Xrefs
- Better Google™ SketchUp™ workflow with COLLADA improvements
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TurboCAD is a CAD software application for 2D and 3D design and
drafting running on the Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
TurboCAD Deluxe Edition
TurboCAD Deluxe Edition provides unlimited design options and
includes hundreds of professional drafting and design tools, file support, video
and interactive tutorials, photo-realistic rendering and pre-drawn drag-and-drop
symbols. Beginner, intermediate and advanced menu settings and context sensitive
help are available via a Microsoft Windows-style interface.
TurboCAD Professional Edition
TurboCAD Professional Edition is an advanced general purpose CAD
product for design, drafting, detailing and modelling. It includes basic drawing
and modification tools and tools for 2D or 3D design including 2D parametric
constraints, 3D solid and surface modeling, robust photo-realistic rendering ray
tracing, lighting and materials and extensive CAD and graphics file
inter-operability.
TurboCAD Platinum Edition
TurboCAD Platinum Edition is a comprehensive CAD product for 2D
and 3D design, documentation, detailing and modelling. It includes all of the
tools in TurboCAD Professional with the addition of advanced mechanical and
architectural design tools.
TurboCAD Mac Professional
TurboCAD Mac Pro is a professional CAD application that includes
2D drafting tools, 3D surface modelling and ACIS solid modelling tools and more
than eleven thousand symbols in an intuitive interface. Optimise drawing
management with ability to organise layers into an unlimited number of sets and
subsets, making it easy to turn on and off visual aspects and create detailed
designs.
TurboCAD Mac Deluxe
TurboCAD Mac Deluxe 2D/3D provides snap to x, y co-ordinates
capability for laying out floorplans and diagrams. The freehand spline provides
maximum drawing freedom and the fair curve tool enables manipulation of spline
circles, arcs or curves.
TurboCAD Mac Designer
TurboCAD Mac Designer 2D provides drafting and design tools
typically found in professional level CAD programs.
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TurboCAD
Deluxe
TurboCAD Deluxe allows you to quickly create presentation-ready
home plans, technical drawings, mechanical designs, artistic illustrations,
crafts and school projects.
- Complete Set of 2D/3D Drafting, Design and Modeling Tools.
- Easy to Use in a customizable interface
- Lightworks Photorealistic Rendering & Visualization
- Architectural Specific Design Features
- Mechanical Design Features
- Support for 28 industry-standard file formats
Complete Set of 2D/3D Drafting, Design, and Modeling
Tools
TurboCAD employs a large selection of line, arc, curve, spline tools, and other
expected tools, so that no matter the situation you’ve got access to the right
tool for the job. When used with TurboCAD snaps, modification tools, and drawing
aids you will be able to quickly draft and document your designs. Below is only
a small sample of the drawing, modifying, and dimensioning tools.
Drawing Tools
Arc, Bezier Curve, Circles, Command Line, Construction Lines, Double Line,
Ellipse, Line, Multiline, Parallel Line, Perpendicular Line, Points, Polygon,
Polyline, Revision Cloud, Spline Curve, Trim, Wall
Modeling Tools
Box, Cone, Cylinder, Sphere, Wedge, Prism, Doughnut, Extrude, Helix, Revolve,
Sweep, Mesh, Booleans And Splines.
Editing/Modification Tools
Align, Array, Boolean operations, Chamfer, Distribute, Double Line Modify,
Erase, Fillet, Join Polyline, Meet two lines, Mirror, Multi shrink/extend line,
Offset, Rotate, Scale, Split, Stretch, Shrink/extend line, Transform, Trim
Dimension Types
Angular, Baseline, Continuous, Datum, Diameter, Incremental, Orthogonal,
Parallel, Quick, Radial, Rotated, String, Smart.
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TurboCAD
Professional
TurboCAD Pro includes all the basic drawing and modification
tools needed to draw nearly anything you can imagine. TurboCAD Pro's powerful
tools for 2D or 3D design include 2D parametric constraints, 3D solid and
surface modeling, robust photorealistic rendering ray tracing, lighting and
materials, and extensive CAD and graphics file interoperability.
TurboCAD Pro advances productivity with tools that allow for
design, modification, presentation, and documentation in an integrated fashion.
And because we know that most people use a number of tools or collaborate with
others frequently, TurboCAD Pro is designed to provide excellent workflow to and
from other applications.
Open, insert, or embed up to 35 file formats and export up to
28, including .DWG, .DXF, .SKP (Google SketchUp), .3DM (Rhinoceros), .3DS (Autodesk
3ds Max), IGES, STEP, .OBJ, COLLADA (.DAE – export); vector formats including .EPS
and .SVG; raster formats including .BMP, .GIF, .JPG, .PNG, .TIF.
TurboCAD Pro reads and writes .DWG and .DXF files from R14
through 2010 including AutoCAD Architecture extensions. This broad range of
support helps to maintain your intellectual property investment by supporting
older files, models, and parts. It also makes it easy to access parts from
vendors or posted on model exchange sites like the Google 3D Warehouse.
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TurboCAD
Pro Platinum
TurboCAD Pro Platinum is our most comprehensive CAD product for
2D and 3D design, documentation, detailing and modeling.
In addition to including all the tools found in TurboCAD Pro
the Platinum version includes additional advanced mechanical and architectural
design tools such as:
- Easy to use Quick Pull tool
- Advanced Pattern Constraints
- History enabled editing of ACIS objects
- Numerous parametrically controlled modifiers
- Advanced Parametric Parts, and parametric symbols
including the Weld Tool, Adhesive Tool and newly updated Geometric Tolerance
Tool
- Comprehensive door and window styles, now with Window
Muntins
- Parametric Stairs, and enhanced Rails and Rail Styles
- New x,y,z data input in the Terrain Tool
The Platinum product includes all of the advanced features
necessary for both architectural design and more specific mechanical design
tasks.
TurboCAD Pro Platinum functionality can of course be extended
through one of the many plug-ins for TurboCAD such as Animation Lab, CAM,
Furniture Maker, or the Beam Analysis Tool. In addition, there is a Software
Developers' Kit (SDK) for TurboCAD Pro to allow you to create your own tools and
customize behaviors.
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TurboCAD
MAC Professional
- Powerful Photorealistic and Sketch Rendering
TurboCAD MAC PRO comes with the Lightworks Photorealistic Rendering Engine.
Choose or customize any of the hundreds bitmap materials included, or apply
any *.BMP or *.JPG images to your 3D models for optimal realism. Produce
professional quality renderings of your designs by adding lighting,
shadowing, reflectance, roughness and environmental effects.
New Sketch rendering for stills and animations makes it
easier for computer-generated models to look hand drawn. By avoiding the
photo-realistic rendering look, artistic and emotional appeal can be brought
out in the design. It is particularly appropriate in the early stages of
conceptual design to avoid the feeling of completion. Sketch styles include:
Cartoon, Color Wash, Contour, Hand Drawn, Hatch, Ink Print, Line & Color
Fill, Line & Shadow, Mosaic, Oil Painting, Rough Pencil, Soft Pencil, and
Stipple.
- Advanced 3D Surface Modeling
TurboCAD Mac Pro takes your designs further. Primitives, complex and
advanced surface tools, as well as surface modifiers and transformation
tools are included for surface modeling.
A partial list of the Surface tools include:
- Skinned Surface - fits a network of NURB patches to a
collection of curves that act as cross-sections for the final surface.
- Cover Surface - creates a surface from curves connected
end to end
- Tube Suface – quickly and efficiently create a tube or
pipe along a reference curve.
- Revolve Surface - This tool allows you to revolve a curve
about an existing curve.
- Fillet Surface - blends two surfaces that share an edge
or intersection. This tool does not extend surfaces.
- Draft Surface – This tool extends a surface to create a
new surface attached to the end of the original surface.
- Net Surface - A net surface is not the same as a mesh. As
the name implies, net surfaces are nurb surfaces. Net surfaces are nurb
surfaces. A mesh is defined by nodes or 3D vertices. The Net Surface tool
creates a surface defined by a grid of M rows and N columns, where M and N
are letter identifiers referring to the number of rows or columns.
ACIS Solid Modeling
Utilizing the ACIS solid modeling technology, TurboCAD MAC PRO offers realistic,
complex 3D object creation as well as data crucial for engineers. Choose from a
variety of 3D primitives (Boxes, Spheres, Cones, Torus, Prisms and Pryamids etc…),
and access 3D utilities (Trim, Add, Subtract, Union, Split, Stitch & Thicken),
solid feature tools (Blend, 3D Fillet & Chamfer, Shelling, Bend, Hole & Boss),
solid face modification tools (Draft, Match, Offset, Remove), and advanced
modifiers (Twist, Strecth,). Some of the ACIS tools are:
- Bend Solid - bends a solid about an axis through a given
radius.
- The Trim Solid tool trims a solid with a curve, surface,
or solid. The trim tool is usefulfor removing material from a base solid. In
addition to trimming to surfaces or another solid, the trim solid tool has
the unique ability to allow trimming a solid to a curve.
- Skinned Solids – Creates a solid from a collection of
closed profiles. Create skin solids using profiles composed of individual
curves (such as circles or ellipses) or grouped curves. A profile composed
of individual curves does not have to be grouped for use with this tool.
- Polygon from Curves Tool – Draws a polygon with the
number of sides determined by chosen points.
Advanced Editing
History Free editing of your parts allows for tremendous flexibility in your
design approach by allowing you to manipulate the individual components of a
part without having to maintain a part tree which can be both time consuming and
complex to manage.
Assembly Tools
- Assembly Connect - The Assembly Connect tool to connects
one solid to another at a specified connection point.
- Assembly Mate - mates planar faces. You can specify an
offset distance between mated faces.
- Assembly Align - aligns a face of two solid objects and
supports cylindrical, spherical and planar faces.
- Assembly Insert - aligns and mates the faces of two solid
objects. The align faces must be cylindrical and the mate faces must be
planar. This tool is very useful for inserting bolts into holes.
Complete Set of 2D Tools
TurboCAD Mac Pro provides unlimited design options with its complete set of 2D
tools. Choose from a number 2D drafting tools including line, arch, curve,
circle, ellipse, and spline tools. Access text and dimensioning tools and 2D
modifier tools like fillet & chamfer tools as well as 2D Transformation tools
for easy editing.
- Polygon from Curves Tool – Draws a polygon with the
number of sides determined by chosen points. (video)
- Connect Curve Tool - Join Option - The Join Curve option
replaces the two curves you select with a new spline curve. This tool will
also join two polylines
- Sketch Spline Tool – samples points as the cursor moves
and creates a smooth spline through the sampled data. Once selected this
tool has two options, the Sketch Spline tool and Sketch on a Surface tool.
- Fair Spline Tool - The Fair Spline command provides a
tool to globally smooth a curve. Fairing a spline optimally moves control
vertices to locations that minimize large curvature variations.
1,000 Floor Plans
Start from scratch or choose from any one of these pre-designed floor plans you
can customize to make each one your own.
Over 11,000 2D/3D symbols and parts
Choose from thousands of parts and symbols to effortlessly add to your design
including electrical, mechanical, bathroom, kitchen, construction, LAN, CMOS,
doors, windows, counters, fasteners and HVAC. Use the symbols browser to quickly
locate just what you need, enhanced to now display symbol filenames.
New Architectural Design Tools
Smart walls- TurboCAD Mac’s self-healing walls automatically join, intersect,
intelligently to speed design. Additional Walls options include
auto-dimensioning (applied as they are drawn), auto trim of wall vertices, and
assignment of hatch patterns and colors.
Parametric Doors & Windows– Choose from 3 door styles (Single,
Single Standard, or Double) and 3 window styles (Overlapping Sill, Standard Sill
and Tight Sill) to drag-and-drop into a wall, and TurboCAD Mac will
automatically create an opening in the wall. In addition, users can offset the
door or window a prescribed distance from the end of the wall for rapid and
precise placement.
Complete File Compatible & Conversion Options
Easily import your graphic designs files into TurboCAD and turn them into
precision CAD drawings with dimensions. Just as easily, you can export technical
drawings from TurboCAD into desktop publishing formats, perfect for use in
brochures and all other marketing materials.
Import or export from these popular formats: AutoCAD DWG/DXF,
JPEG (export only), CGM (import only), Claris CAD (import only), PNG, ACIS SAT,
Adobe EPS (export only), Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PDF (export only), IGES, PICT,
TIFF, Rhino 3DM (import only), Spline (import only), STEP, TEXT, Truespace COB,
DAT (import only), 3DS (import only), FAC (import only), BMP, STL, WRL (export
only), 2D Raster.
You can also use TurboCAD’s powerful batch conversion tool to
batch convert a collection of drawings to other file formats.
Printing, Publishing& PDF
Use the page layouts to publish your design from up to 4 different view angles
on a single page. New shaded view options for Page Layouts offer greater control
of how the printed document will look. Users can also save designs as single or
multi-page PDFs in standard or custom sizes for sending via email.
Verify your Designs
A set of sophisticated surface analysis tools will help you maintain proper
design integrity by providing critical information about your designs such as
evaluating the smoothness of one or more surfaces, useful for identifying
surface irregularities. Then choose from any of four curvature plot styles
Gaussian, Mean, Min Radius and Max Radius.
TurboCAD
Mac Deluxe
- Design Anything with Complete 2D/3D Design Tools
TurboCAD Mac Deluxe 2D/3D makes it easy to design anything. Snap to x, y
coordinates to quickly layout floorplans, diagrams and more with the
complete set of 2D design tools. The new freehand spline gives you maximum
drawing freedom while the new fair curve tool lets you precisely manipulate
any spline circle, arc or curve. Use the 3D surface and solid modeling tools
to build accurate models that are easy to manipulate and quickly edit.
Perfect for architects, illustrators, engineers.
- Create and Easily Manage Detailed Designs
Speed design with over 11,000 pre-drawn symbols, or use the new block
manager to quickly create, edit and manage 2D/3D blocks. Organize layers
into new layer sets for optimal drawing management.
- Precise Architectural Design Features
Quickly create floor plans with the drafting assistant or choose from 1,000
included pre-drawn plans. Speed architectural design with new parametric
doors and windows. When placed into the new self-healing walls, TurboCAD
will automatically create an opening in the wall, and users can offset the
door or window a prescribed distance from the end of the wall for more
precise placement.
- Share Designs with Ease
Easily import existing designs from popular CAD and graphic design file
formats, including AutoCAD DWG/DXF. Just as easily, export your precision
designs and technical drawings from TurboCAD to other CAD formats, or choose
a popular desktop publishing formats to create brochures or other marketing
materials. Even print design to your specifications with new options for
better control of how the printed document will look.
TurboCAD
Mac Designer
- Effortlesslysly Translate Your Ideas Into Reality
TurboCAD Mac Designer 2D delivers comprehensive drafting and design tools
typically found in professional level CAD programs. Created with the simple
user interface every Mac user demands, TurboCAD Mac makes it easy to produce
anything from simple sketches to standards compliant, production ready
drawings.
- Start Designing Immediately
Import an existing CAD file in one of the many supported file formats,
including AutoCAD DWG/DXF, or start from scratch. With intuitive design
tools The Drafting Assistance’s snaps and alignment aids, 7,000 pre-drawn
symbols, customisable keyboard shortcuts, automated user tips and online
help, even beginners can quickly create precision designs.
- Create Architectural Plans with Ease
Use the drafting assistant to quickly layout a floor plan, or choose from
one of the 500 included pre-drawn plans. Speed architectural design with new
parametric doors and windows that when placed into new self-healing walls,
TurboCAD will automatically create an opening in the wall.
- Share Designs
Print design to your specifications with new options for better control of
how the printed document will look. Just as easily, export your precision
designs and technical drawings from TurboCAD to other CAD formats, or choose
a popular desktop publishing formats to create brochures or other marketing
materials.
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System Requirements
System Requirements for TurboCAD Deluxe Edition
Minimum System Requirements:
- Pentium IV Processor
- Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Vista or Windows 7
- 300 MB of available hard disk space, depending on the
accessory applications installed and 64 MB of swap space
- Super VGA (1024 x768) display
- High Colour (16 bit) graphics card
- DVD-ROM drive
- Adobe Reader v6 or higher.
Recommended System Requirements:
- 2 GHz Processor and 2 GB RAM
- 3D Graphics accelerator card
- Wheel mouse
- Internet connection
- Adobe Reader v7 or higher
- Microsoft Internet Explorer required for Internet
registration
- Macromedia Flash plug-in required for on-line tutorials.
System Requirements for TurboCAD Pro and Platinum Editions
Minimum System Requirements:
- Pentium IV Processor
- Microsoft Windows XP with 512 MB RAM
- Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows 7 with 1024 MB RAM
- 300 MB of available hard disk space
- Super VGA (1024 x768) display
- High Colour (16 bit) graphics support
- 4X DVD-ROM drive.
Recommended System Requirements:
- A newer generation, high speed CPU with 2-4 GB RAM
- Larger display resolution and graphics support
- The optional GPU-accelerated wireframe render mode
requires a supported graphic processing unit (either a chip on the board or
on a video card). The latest video drivers are typically required. Newer
boards with more power and VRAM generally provide greater performance. Refer
to the system specifications or contact the manufacturer of the video card
to determine if it uses one of the following video chipsets:
- NVIDIA chipsets:
- GeForce 8 Series
- GeForce 9 Series
- GeForce GTX Series.
- AMD ATI chipsets:
- INTEL chipsets:
Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7 Aero display mode causes
interference with the Redsdk GPU-accelerated display mode. If this option is
selected, TurboCAD will turn Aero mode off for that session. It affects only the
transparency of the application window border.
Mac Edition
Minimum
- G4
- 256 MB of RAM
- 200 MB Free on Hard Disk
- DVD-ROM Drive
- Macintosh OS X (10.4 or greater) 32 MB Accelerated video
card with OpenGL support
- Leopard and Snow Leopard compatible
Recommended
- G5
- Mac OS X 10.4.5+ or later PPC/Intel
- 512 MB RAM
- 250 MB Free Hard Drive Space
- 1 GB Allocated Virtual Memory
- Internet connection and service to access some online content
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