TurboCAD Mac Designer 2D v5

Product Description

TurboCAD Mac Designer 2D v5 is a comprehensive, simple to use 2D drafting and design tool. Offering over 275 intuitive 2D design tools, plus 7000+ symbols, extensive file compatibility, and intuitive command tools to simplify the design process, TurboCAD Mac Designer 2D v5 is the perfect precision design choice for CAD professionals and graphics designers.

Adobe Illustrator Import & Export
AutoCAD Compatible
Over 275 Design Tools & 7,000+ Symbols
2D Drafting & 3D to 2D Conversion

Simple to Use

Intuitive command tools, automated user tips and customizable keyboard shortcuts make it easy to get started and offer superior speed and efficiency in your design process.

TurboCAD Explorer: Manage your design with the intuitive Layer Manager. Effortlessly add content using the Symbol Palette with access to over 7,000+ drag and drop symbols.
Multiple User Settings: Customize your preferences from unit measurements, colors settings, and display options, to grid conditions, snaps, keyboard short cuts and dialog positions. Perfect for multi-user situations such as computer labs, schools, and station sharing.
Icon Based Show/Hide Menu: Toggle easily between various parts of your design.
Wheel Scroll Direction: Reverse the direction of your zoom with the simple roll of your mouse wheel.
Partial Selections: Easily perform a partial selection by simply selecting from right to left.
Skin Folder: Easily create and replace tool icons with externally located Skins folder.

Graphic Design Compatible

Turn your Illustrator designs into CAD drawings with dimensions, or import CAD files from AutoCAD,STEP, and ACIS SAT into Illustrator images you can use in brochures and marketing materials. Perfect for importing technical drawings into desktop publishing format.

New Updated DXF/DWG Support: Read/Write AutoCAD files through v2008 with updated DXF/DWG translators. Includes support for model and paper space.
Conversion Tool: Create precise 2D wireframe and hidden line drawings from imported 3D models, including AutoCAD, DXF and DWG files. Quickly create production-ready drawings, with auxiliary details and section views from existing 3D parts.

Built Specifically for Mac

TurboCAD Mac Designer 2D v5 was built from the ground up to run on Apple computers, so you’re always sure to get the top performance you’ve come to expect on your Mac.

Universal Support: Operate on both Intel and Power PC based Mac computers. Get peak performance especially on Intel Core Duo, with up to four times the previous processing speed.
New Leopard OS X Support: Whether you’re already upgraded or you’re waiting to move up to the next generation Apple operating system, don’t worry. TurboCAD Mac Designer 2D v5 is Leopard compatible.

Features and Benefits

TurboCAD Mac Designer 2D v5 offers comprehensive drawing and editing tools for producing anything from simple hobby sketches to fully dimensioned, standards-compliant, production ready drawings.

Over 275 Drawing Tools: A complete set of 2D drafting and design tools are all grouped logically for easy access.
Over 7,000 Drag-and-Drop Symbols: Choose from thousands of symbols to effortlessly add content including electrical, mechanical, bathroom, kitchen, construction, LAN, CMOS, doors, windows, counters, fasteners, HVAC, and more.
NEW Tape Measure Tool: Measure from one object to another quickly and easily.
Snaps: Quickly locate x, y coordinates, tangents and perpendiculars with TurboCAD Mac Designer 2D v5’s snapping technology. Transparent window overlays can even be used to snap text right where you want them.
Fractional and Dimension Display: All data entry fields support measurements in feet and inches and display the data in the same format.
Double Line Tool: The double line tool is perfect for drawing walls in architectural drawings. The double line automatically offsets to your chosen thickness.
NEW Export Options: Export your designs to BMP and JPEG raster formats. TurboCAD Mac Designer 2D v5 now supports the export and import of the most popular formats.
NEW Publish to Web: Save and share your file as HTML for use on the web.
Bill of Materials: Assign a specific Material, Price, Part #, Vendor #, Size, Weight, and Volume to any component of your drawing. Display the data in a table format within TurboCAD Mac Designer 2D v5 or export it to Microsoft Excel for easy sharing.
NEW File Properties: Save additional information with your file—user and company name, file properties and design notes. The information can be used to automatically file title blocks in your printed designs.