Textual Creations is very pleased to announce the release of TurboCAD Pro V17.1 – Industrial Shock Absorber
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TurboCAD Pro V17.1 – Industrial Shock Absorber is a 237 page fully illustrated tutorial that leads the reader through every keystroke to produce the industrial shock absorber and four drawing sheets on the cover of the tutorial.
TurboCAD Pro V17.1 – Industrial Shock Absorber is available on the Textual Creations Shopping Page. Sample pages are available there.
From the Introduction:
During the author’s tenure with TurboCAD much delight has been found creating a variety of printed pages for enumerable projects. This has included a variety of building plans, shop drawings, patent illustrations, plus a whole host of diagrams and graphics in a wide variety of fields. Ever since the advent of the Drafting Palette the job of drafting has become so much more efficient and more pleasing.
Within the tutorial the reader will be led through each keystroke to produce all components of the industrial shock that is illustrated on the cover of the tutorial. The reader will learn how to set up their drawing, how to insert standard lighting and how utilize render scene luminance. The reader will learn how to establish a render scene environment and the reader will learn how to render their drawing and save it in a high resolution image format. The user will also learn how to use paper space by first creating a title block and then utilizing viewports and Drafting palette objects to create a four page presentation.
Textual Creations is very pleased to announce the release of TurboCAD V17.1 – Electric Motor
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From the Introduction:
What better way to explore TurboCAD than by creating a cool model of an electric motor. It has many interesting parts that require some forethought before construction, but are easily managed within TurboCAD.
Within the tutorial the reader will be led through each keystroke to produce all components of the electric motor that is illustrated on the cover of the tutorial (except the centrifugal switch and some screws which are supplied to save on tutorial time). The reader will learn how to set up their drawing, how to insert standard lighting and how utilize render scene luminance. The reader will learn how to establish a render scene environment and the reader will learn how to render their drawing and save it in a high resolution image format. The user will learn how to create an exploded view of the electric motor and the user will learn how to use paper space to create a single page paper presentation with a saved render and an inserted viewport.
Thanks goes to all of you who participated in the 2010 TurboCAD Challenge by submitting an entry. In the eyes of your TurboCAD peers, you are all winners in every sense of the word. Please know that everyone received votes and in many cases it was a very close race.
Thanks also goes to those who participated in this year’s challenge by taking time to view the many entries and by taking time to cast a vote.
Special thanks goes to IMSI/Design, SoftDev, Milan Spinar, Brad Easterday & Jerry Simington for donating prizes and making the challenge much sweeter than it might otherwise have been.
I have been revisiting some of my older models with TurboCAD V17.1. I am a little disappointed that this latest version of TurboCAD does not work well with models created in previous versions. This was never an issue with previous of TurboCAD, so I know it doesn’t have to be this way. Hopefully it will get sorted out in time for the next patch, if one is indeed, in the planning. Issues seem to be with memory and lack there of.
To create the 3D PDF I saved in stp format from TurboCAD and imported the stp results into Alibre Standard V12.1. I then published to PDF from Alibre with fine results. It would be quite nice if layer names were retained during the translation from tcw to stp, but so far this is not the case.
Textual Creations is very pleased to announce the release of TurboCAD V17.1 – Anatomy of a TurboCAD House
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TurboCAD V17.1 – Anatomy of a TurboCAD House is a 326 page fully illustrated tutorial that leads the reader through every keystroke to produce the cutaway house on the cover of the tutorial.
TurboCAD V17.1 – Anatomy of a TurboCAD House is available on the Textual Creations Shopping Page. Sample pages are available there.
From the Introduction:
I had been surfing the internet one day looking for tutorial inspiration when I came across a house cutaway that I just loved. I knew immediately that this was the route I wanted to go to showcase many of the TurboCAD architecture tools that exist. I made contact via email and asked if those behind the creation minded if I based my new tutorial on their idea. Matt Jennings replied that he was pleased that I liked his illustration and said that he was okay with basing the tutorial on it. Thanks Matt! (See tutorial or tutorial sample pages for link to Matt’s website and rendering)
I hope that you enjoy the tutorial.
Best regards,
Don
More and more, architects, builders and interior designers are being forced to compete in the industry by supplying top notch architectural visuals in a timely and cost effective manner. Luckily, CAD software designers such as IMSI/Design are aware of these needs and have stepped up to the plate to create a package that addresses these needs – all the while keeping in mind the budget conscious, ease of use and, of course, quality of output.
TurboCAD Pro V17 (Platinum Edition) has kept up with the tradition of introducing additional architectural features, this time most notably with the addition of window muttons. Within this tutorial the new user will be introduce to many of the new and existing architectural tools and functions in a manner that should prove most enjoyable.
Here is the Anatomy of a TurboCAD House [Build] video if anyone is interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUx3WuE_BH4 Creating the video is not part of the tutorial, it is just something extra I did for fun with the components that are created as part of the tutorial
The stage is set for the 4th Annual TurboCAD Challenge. Please visit the TurboCAD Challenge 2010 home page for full details of the challenge. There are some great prizes available for three peer voted winners, so it is well worth the the effort to participate. Hope to see you there.
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Submissions accepted from: Monday June 1, 2010 to June 30, 2010* (*midnight Central Standard Time)
Email voting from: July 1, 2009 to July 7, 2010* (*midnight Central Standard Time)
One area where new users find difficulties is with the placement of 3D pipes and wires, which sometimes meander all over 3D space. As difficult as this can sometimes seem, it is definitely possible to achieve the desired results in TurboCAD with a bit of planning and, of course, using the right techniques.
Within the tutorial the reader will be led through each keystroke to produce all components of the piping/filtration system that is illustrated on the cover of the tutorial. The reader will learn how to create each object by converting 2D profiles into 3D shapes or refining 3D primitive shapes. The reader will learn how to set up their drawing, how to insert standard lighting and how utilize render scene luminance. The reader will learn how to establish a render scene environment and the reader will learn how to render their drawing and save it in a high resolution image format. The user will also learn how to use paper space to create a three page paper presentation.
There was some discussion on the TurboCAD forum about how nice it would be to have the ability to create 3D PDF files straight out of TurboCAD. There was also a link to the Demo Center of Right Hemisphere, in particular a link to Mark Schafer’s Catia landing gear assembly model that was authored within Deep Exploration, a product Right Hemisphere. I was very impressed with the model and the 3D PDF itself, which allowed each part to be viewed separately and which allowed measurements to be captured. With such a fine model and measurements at the ready I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to recreate the model in TurboCAD.
