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IMPROVED Blocks
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Set a material property for Block Insertions and 'By Block' material for entities, and you can specify different rendering materials for different block instances.
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IMPROVED Bezier Curves
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Node editing options improved to include Equal Curvatures at point, Non-equal Curvature at point, Non-smooth at point, offering much better control over curve fitting with nodes handles.
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IMPROVED Node Editing
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Add selector mode functionality has been added to the local menu so you can easily utilize handled based editing to manipulate one or more selected nodes.
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IMPROVED Polygons
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Now you can define a polygon by the endpoints of one edge. Handy for stacking polygons against one another.
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IMPROVED Dimensioning
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Custom Block Arrows are now supported so you can create customized arrowheads for your dimension styles. Also, dimension scaling in Paper Space now matches scale from Model Space to ensure accurate dimensioning of displayed entities in Paper Space Viewports.
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IMPROVED Format Painter
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Save Entity properties and formats from imported files for re-use in other drawings. The format painter provides the ability to save selected formats as preset property values for any object property type. They can then be accessed from the specific Entity Style drop down menu.
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NEW Filleted Corners
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TurboCAD 16 offers the ability to add filleted corners automatically from the local menu streamlining the process of filleting corners when drawing polygons, irregular polygons, rectangles and irregular rectangles.
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NEW Font
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Hebrew support of Text, Multiline Text and SHX fonts. Now properly annotate drawings with Hebrew text.
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NEW XREF Manager
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NEW XREF Manager is built in to the Block Palette, managing external references in your TurboCAD drawing more effectively. XREFs can also be exported with DWG or DXF drawings for greater AutoCAD® file compatibility.
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IMPROVED 3D Booleans
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Boolean operations use two existing 3D objects to create a new object. Objects can be combined, subtracted, intersected, or sliced. Now TurboCAD offers greater control over combining 3D entities with the ability to select multiple entities for addition or subtraction.
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IMPROVED Curve
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Now TurboCAD offers the ability to split a 3D Curve into two pieces. It’s handy for extracting extrusion or sweep profiles from part of a larger curve.
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IMPROVED Measurement
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TurboCAD now has the ability to measure the length of 3D Curves as well as the area of ACIS faces
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NEW Mesh Simplifier Tool
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This tool degenerates (simplifies to a specific number of triangles) TurboCAD Surfaces. It’s useful for simplifying large, imported meshes that will subsequently be rendered, as render times will be less.
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NEW Helix
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New tool to quickly draw 2D and 3D spirals
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NEW 3D Mouse Support
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TurboCAD now works with the Sandio 3D Mouse - www.sandiotech.com. Speed design as you move along and rotate about your drawings X, Y and Z axes without having to also use your keyboard or other on-screen navigational aids. It makes for more efficient drawing and viewing of 3D objects.
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Dramatic Lighting & Rendering Enhancements
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IMPROVED LightWorks® Rendering
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TurboCAD now includes the Lightworks 7.9 lighting and rendering engine. This major upgrade of the underlying render engine provides dozens of new material shaders plus advanced shader descriptions.
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IMPROVED Material Scaling
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Now there are new methods to accurately scale materials and preview those changes on the fly.
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NEW Design Director
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The Design Director lets you organize, access, and explore design alternatives easily in the Design Director Palette. You can create Layer Templates, Light Templates, and Camera Templates that you name and save for use on different designs. With Categories and Graphics you can select, view and assign properties without the constraint of Layers. Switching between design alternatives has never been easier!
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Improved Compatibility and Interoperability
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IMPROVED DWG/DXF Import/Export
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TurboCAD has always offered excellent compatibility with native AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT files, making it an excellent companion product. A new ability to export XREFs with DWG or DXF drawings offers even greater AutoCAD file compatibility.
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IMPROVED Google SketchUp File Support
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The SketchUp (SKP) file import filter has been greatly enhanced in TurboCAD v16. Not only is more information about the SketchUp model now successfully imported into TurboCAD, but supplemental rendering, lighting and materials information is imported if the SketchUp model has been rendered with IMSI/Design's IDX Renditioner product, a plug-in to SketchUp.
SKP File Import Enhancements: - Now supports SketchUp version 7 files
- Units settings are now imported
- Dimension objects are now imported
- User may now define the Material for Block Insertions in the model and may define 'By Block' the material for models.
- Construction Lines are now imported
- Two new Camera properties are now imported - Perspective/Orthographic flag and the View property
- Insertion of Custom Materials (3rd-party) is now supported
- Horizon Colors from the SketchUp Environment are now imported
- Soften and Smooth Edges properties are now imported
Additionally Imported IDX Renditioner properties from SketchUp model: - Material Bumpiness information of SketchUp textures now imported
- Renditioner Lights, including Natural Lighting, are now imported as Luminances
- Shadow Casting property is now imported
- Glow Appearance from Renditioner lamps imported as material
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NEW Google SketchUp File Export
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Convert your TurboCAD models into native SketchUp (.SKP) files for seamless import into Google SketchUp.
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