TurboCAD® Mac offers a range of 2D/3D CAD solutions for architects, engineers, designers, and students. Mac Platinum is the top-tier version with advanced drafting, modeling, and rendering tools. Mac Pro supports powerful design workflows, while Mac Deluxe balances ease of use with robust 2D/3D tools, ideal for makers and students. Mac Designer is a simple 2D drafting tool perfect for floor plans and technical drawings. With intuitive features and scalable functionality, TurboCAD® Mac adapts to your needs—bringing your ideas to life with precision and creativity.
TurboCAD® Mac is the definitive choice for those who seek the power and precision of professional CAD software. Whether you’re a builder, manufacturer, maker, or student, TurboCAD® Mac provides a robust platform for drafting and modeling, allowing you to design anything you can envision. Step into the driver’s seat of exceptional design with TurboCAD® Mac and transform your imaginative concepts into tangible creations.
Step up from the basics and embrace the power of TurboCAD® Mac, the professional-grade CAD design solution that delivers unparalleled quality without breaking the bank. Experience the versatility of advanced modeling technology, enhancing the creation of conceptual sketches and complex designs.
Note: The availability of features may vary across different model variants. For a detailed overview of feature distribution, please consult the Product Line Comparison Chart. This will help you identify which features are included in the variant you are interested in.
TurboCAD® Mac is the perfect tool for a wide range of design projects, including:
TurboCAD® Mac ensures smooth integration within your existing workflow. It’s fully compatible with AutoCAD® and supports a variety of popular CAD and graphics formats, facilitating effortless collaboration with other professionals.
Note: File format support may vary across different model variants. For a detailed overview of supported file formats, please consult the File Format Comparison Chart. This will help you identify which features are included in the variant you are interested in.
TurboCAD® Mac is rich in features, yet designed for ease of use with tools like our innovative LogiCursor™, which anticipates your next move, making CAD intuitive and straightforward. With your purchase, you gain access to our comprehensive training tutorials, eliminating the guesswork from your learning experience. As creators of top-tier CAD software, we provide resources that will quickly elevate you to an expert user. This will shorten your learning curve, and improve your productivity and design efficiency.
Your purchase includes 12 months of free technical support. Our Maintenance & Support plans are valid for one year from purchase and extendable annually*. These plans are available for products up to 5 years old, and they include access to technical support and software updates (patches).
*See our Licensing and Sales Policies for further information.
The availability of features may vary across different model variants. For a detailed overview of feature distribution, please consult the Product Line Comparison Chart. This will help you identify which features are included in the variant you are interested in.
TurboCAD® Mac is engineered for precision and ease of use. The LogiCursor™ smartly anticipates your next move, guiding you to potential point selections. The Gripper tool simplifies design edits with its drag-and-drop capabilities, while customizable grids offer precision in various layouts, including rectangular, polar, and isometric.
As a robust documentation tool, TurboCAD® Mac includes over 20 customizable dimension styles to match industry standards. Enhance your project documentation with features like:
TurboCAD® Mac’s Advanced Solid Modeling tools provide a robust set of features for creating detailed and precise solid models. The Blending function offers G2 Curvature, Three Face, and Thumbweights options for smooth transitions between surfaces.
Edge Features like Flanges, Lips, and Grooves add functional details to edges. Feature Patterns can be arranged in Linear, Spherical, Radial, and Polar layouts for repetitive detailing. The Extend Bend Tool offers flexibility in manipulating bent surfaces. Use the Rib Feature to add structural support elements, while Pressure Deform Face enables localized deformation via Area, To Point, and To Curve methods.
TurboCAD® Mac’s Advanced Surface Modeling tools offer a sophisticated array of features for precision design. The Projected 2D Silhouette function enables accurate 2D outlines from 3D models. G2 Continuous Surface Fillet provides seamless transitions for high-quality finishes.
The Tangent Cover Surface and Tangent Cover Surface with Guides tools assist in creating tangent-continuous complex surfaces. Additional tools include:
These tools combine to deliver a versatile and powerful surface modeling environment.
TurboCAD® Mac offers a sophisticated conversion tool that leverages Dassault®’s Hidden Line Technology and transforms 3D models into precise 2D drawings, facilitating the creation of accurate technical blueprints. This tool is ideal for professionals who need to generate detailed plans from complex 3D structures. It ensures every nuance of the 3D model is captured and represented in 2D, providing a clear and comprehensive view of the design. This feature is crucial for those who require exacting technical documentation, making TurboCAD® Mac an essential tool for a wide range of engineering and architectural applications.
While TurboCAD ® Mac Deluxe supports basic rendering, the Platinum and Pro versions offer advanced capabilities including Physically Based Rendering (PBR). PBR simulates realistic interactions between light and materials using parameters like roughness and reflectivity, ensuring consistent and true-to-life results across lighting environments. It's ideal for highly visual fields such as architectural rendering and game development.
TurboCAD® Mac provides a suite of animation, recording, and publishing tools for generating QuickTime movies. Users can create animations using Walk Through, Fly By, Paths, Object VR, Panoramic VR, and Object-Based Animations. These features enable dynamic visualization of designs, whether following a predefined path or capturing a full 360-degree view.
Animation Rebound, available exclusively in TurboCAD® Mac Platinum and Pro variants, allows animations to trace a path and return to their starting point—perfect for polished, looping presentations.
TurboCAD® Mac Copilot: The Ultimate AI-Powered Design Partner
Unlock the full potential of your design process with Copilot, the AI-driven companion integrated into TurboCAD®. This tool streamlines navigation, expedites progress, and enhances design with smart analysis.
Copilot is available in two tiers: TurboCAD® Copilot Help and TurboCAD® Copilot Professional*.
All TurboCAD® variants include a complimentary 1-year subscription to Copilot Help, powered by RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) for context-aware answers sourced from documentation, FAQs, and video tutorials.
Copilot Professional adds features like Talk to Your CAD Data, general AI access, and Text to Image. It supports multilingual requests and provides guidance on everything from software use to design principles.
*TurboCAD® Copilot Professional is an optional add-on for TurboCAD® Mac Platinum, Pro, Deluxe, and Designer, available via 1-year or 3-year subscription.
TurboCAD® Mac Platinum comes fully equipped with the PowerPack, an extensive collection of over 70 additional tools that significantly enhance the capabilities of the software. The Mesh Tools provide advanced options for editing and refining mesh models, essential for detailed 3D printing and modeling tasks. Entity Management tools offer robust controls for organizing and manipulating various elements within a project, ensuring efficient workflow management. The suite also includes expanded options for both 2D & 3D Modeling, giving users a wider range of design possibilities and greater creative freedom. Lastly, the Mesh to Solid tool is a standout feature that allows for the conversion of mesh data into precise solid models, which is crucial for compatibility with other CAD software and for high-quality manufacturing processes.
*PowerPack is available as an optional add-on for TurboCAD® Mac Pro and Deluxe.
Enhance your TurboCAD® Mac experience with the Layer Sets feature, a powerful tool designed to optimize your design space. Layer Sets enable you to effortlessly save and manage your layers, view orientations, and zoom levels, ensuring a seamless transition between different phases of your project.
Improve your design efficiency with the Symbol Manager in TurboCAD® Mac. This tool helps you organize, store, and quickly access reusable symbols, making it easier to manage frequently used components and maintain consistency across projects. With intuitive functionality, it simplifies complex designs and saves time by keeping essential elements readily available.
Enhance your TurboCAD® Mac designs with the ANSI Fastener Library, a comprehensive collection of nuts, bolts, and washers. Easily accessible within the Symbol tab in the Concept Explorer, this library simplifies the insertion of fastening components into your projects.
This feature greatly enhances the customization of 3D models with the ability to create and store custom textures. Users can craft unique textures and apply them to surfaces within their designs, adding detail and personalization. These textures can be saved and reused across projects, improving efficiency and consistency.
Enhance your TurboCAD® Mac experience with the Imported Textures feature. Any imported textures are automatically copied to your custom texture folder, making them easily accessible and simplifying texture management across projects.
Prepare and validate your designs for 3D printing with TurboCAD® Mac’s suite of 3D printing tools:
TurboCAD® Mac is not just a software; it’s a gateway to transforming your visions into reality with precision, efficiency, and ease.
TurboCAD® Mac comes equipped with all the necessary tools for professional architectural planning, enabling teams to draft, print, and collaborate effectively:
*TurboCAD ® Mac Designer only supports Doors, Windows, Walls, Multi-Walls.
TurboCAD® Mac accelerates woodworking projects with specialized tools that simplify the creation of complex joints, including:
Avoid the pitfalls of curve discontinuities that can hinder successful modeling operations like Booleans, blending, and chamfering. The Split at Discontinuity tool intelligently identifies and splits curves at points of discontinuity, ensuring a smoother design process.
*TurboCAD® Mac Designer only supports Doors, Windows, Walls, Multi-Walls.
TurboCAD® Mac accelerates woodworking projects with specialized tools that simplify the creation of complex joints, including:
Avoid the pitfalls of curve discontinuities that can hinder successful modeling operations like Booleans, blending, and chamfering. The Split at Discontinuity tool intelligently identifies and splits curves at points of discontinuity, ensuring a smoother design process.
Transform your design process with TurboCAD® Mac’s Surface Cover from Points feature. Craft surfaces directly from designated point locations, offering precision and customization.
Supports converting text to ACIS surface faces—helping designers express creativity without limitations.
TurboCAD® Mac allows reverting the ACIS blend version to a previous setting—giving you control and customization in blending operations.
Discover the power of precision with TurboCAD® Mac’s Select Faces Same Plane feature. This tool streamlines your modeling process by intelligently selecting all faces of a solid that reside on the same plane, ensuring uniformity and accuracy in your designs.
The Shear Transform feature in TurboCAD® Mac is a dynamic addition to the Transform Utilities palette. This option allows you to apply shear transformations to curves, surfaces, and solids with precision and ease.
Elevate your design precision with TurboCAD® Mac’s Verify Clearance feature. This innovative tool includes the capability to accurately calculate the spatial clearance between two solids, ensuring your components fit together perfectly.
TurboCAD® Mac’s Lofting with Guides feature significantly expands design possibilities, enabling the crafting of complex shapes through the process of lofting along multiple guide curves. This method provides a powerful way to generate intricate and smooth surfaces that transition between the defined curves, offering a high degree of control over the shape’s form and flow. It’s an essential tool for designers who require the flexibility to create sophisticated and custom geometries in their 3D modeling projects.
TurboCAD® Mac’s skin surface creation tool with guides offers designers the flexibility to construct intricate geometries with precision. This tool allows for the manipulation of skin surfaces through customizable guides, enabling the accurate shaping of complex forms. It is particularly useful for models that require smooth, flowing surfaces, as it provides the control necessary to achieve the desired contours and intricacies. The tool is an asset for any design process that demands a high level of detail and customization in surface modeling.
TurboCAD® Mac offers compatibility with a wide range of industry-standard file formats, including DXF/DWG, 3MD, ACIS SAT, PDF, STL, SVG, STEP, 3MF, VRML 2.0, OBJ, and many more. It enhances its versatility with the File Options tools, catering to a variety of user needs. The Collada (DAE) Import feature in TurboCAD® Mac Platinum is an addition that allows users to seamlessly integrate Collada files into their workflow. The Save For Review option is a convenient tool for users to save their work in a format that is optimized for reviewing and sharing with others. Reference Files are supported to streamline collaboration and ensure consistency across different project files.
Additionally, TurboCAD® Mac Platinum includes CATIA V4, Pro-E, VDA MCAD Translators, which provide robust compatibility with other major CAD software, making it easier to work within multi-software environments. It also supports SketchUp import/export and integrates with Adobe Illustrator® for graphic design applications, ensuring broad interoperability across disciplines.
Note: File format support may vary across different model variants. For a detailed overview of supported file formats, please consult the File Format Comparison Chart.
|
|
|
|
Note: The availability of new features may vary across different model variants. For a detailed overview of feature distribution, please consult the New Feature Comparison Chart. This will help you identify which features are included in the variant you are interested in.
Support for English, French, and German languages ensures broader accessibility for international users.
TurboCAD® Mac 16 delivers significant performance improvements for handling large files and complex operations.
The redraw speed has been improved up to 12 times for large files. In testing, a 2D file containing 148,318 objects—including points, lines, circles, polygons, text, and groups—was repainted much more quickly compared to the previous version. This improvement becomes more noticeable as the number of entities increases.
Files with thousands of entities now load up to 22 times faster. This results in reduced wait time and a more responsive user experience when opening complex projects.
Importing complex PDF and DWG files is now up to five times faster, improving efficiency when working with external design data.
Printing performance for large designs has been optimized up to 25 times faster, allowing for quicker output without sacrificing quality.
The custom tools interface in TurboCAD® Mac has been redesigned to support larger m×n icon arrays, providing greater flexibility in organizing tool palettes. Users can now configure layouts such as 3×20 or 10×10, and a new edit dialog makes it easier to modify existing tools, enhancing customization and overall usability.
This new drawing tool enables users to create polygons using arcs as defining edges, providing increased design flexibility and creative control.
TurboCAD® Explorer Symbols now includes a 3D ISO part library, allowing designers to access standardized components directly within their projects.
A new batch export option lets users save each individual part in a multi-part file as a separate file, simplifying file management and sharing.
The SketchUp importer has been updated to support the latest SketchUp versions, with special handling for glass materials.
TurboCAD ® Mac introduces an advanced AI-powered feature for generating intelligent parametric parts, available exclusively in Copilot Professional. This powerful tool supports the creation of a wide range of mechanical components, including:
Users can customize parameters like diameter, helix angle, and tooth count to generate precise mechanical components.
Copilot has been enhanced with improved instruction-following capabilities and a more advanced language model, making it an even more valuable AI assistant. These enhancements are available in both Copilot Help and Copilot Professional, ensuring users across all plans benefit from its intelligent support.
Features include:
New tools for sheet metal design enable advanced modeling and manufacturing-ready outputs.
Available Tools:
These tools help simulate real-world fabrication processes such as bending, forming, and unfolding.
Since the release of TurboCAD ® Mac 15, hundreds of minor corrections have been implemented to enhance stability and accuracy. Key fixes include:
Internet: 2 User responsible for all associated ISP fees and charges.
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.
30+ Million Parts, Symbols and Models
CADsymbols® significantly boosts your productivity with over 30 million standard parts, symbols, and models for architectural, mechanical, electronic, and electrical drafting and design. This extensive library provides both 2D symbols and freely revolving 3D models, supporting both metric and imperial measurements, making it perfect for professionals who want to download complex symbols directly into their drawings instead of creating them from scratch.
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.
Complete Home & Landscape Design
FloorPlan® is a complete, easy-to-use home and landscape design solution for Windows Desktops. No experience required! Simply drag and drop and FloorPlan® does the work for you so you can focus on the final design.
Enhanced 3D Printing and Modeling Tools
The TurboCAD® Mac PowerPack is an extensive add-on for TurboCAD® Mac Pro and TurboCAD® Mac Deluxe 2D/3D*. The TurboCAD® Mac PowerPack introduces a suite of 3D printing, verification, and repair tools into your CAD workflow. It provides advanced features to ensure your designs are optimized for 3D printing. These include comprehensive 3D print checks, slice previews, wall thickness analysis, and surface normals checks, along with a collection of tools for mesh, curve, surface, and solid verification and repair.
* TurboCAD® Mac PowerPack is included in TurboCAD® Mac Platinum.
TurboCAD® Mac offers a range of 2D/3D CAD solutions for architects, engineers, designers, and students. Mac Platinum is the top-tier version with advanced drafting, modeling, and rendering tools. Mac Pro supports powerful design workflows, while Mac Deluxe balances ease of use with robust 2D/3D tools, ideal for makers and students. Mac Designer is a simple 2D drafting tool perfect for floor plans and technical drawings. With intuitive features and scalable functionality, TurboCAD® Mac adapts to your needs—bringing your ideas to life with precision and creativity.
With over 280 fully illustrated tips, TurboCAD® Mac Tips, Tutorials, and Techniques is the go to eBook for quickly answering the most frequently asked questions about TurboCAD® Mac. Whether you are new to computer-aided design, or an experienced CAD user, this valuable training provides insights into the program so you can do more in less time.
