TurboCAD 2024 Key Feature Comparison
Get a quick overview of TurboCAD Windows features by product level.
Platinum | Professional | Deluxe | Designer | |
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Price | $149999 | $99999 | $29999 | $9999 |
UI & PERFORMANCE | ||||
Audit System - locate 'bad' or out-of-rage objects based upon user criterion | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
AutoCAD®-like 2D Drafting Interface Options | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Command Line with Dynamic Input Cursor | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Easy, Handle-Based Editing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
ePack with New Intelligent File Send | ✔ | |||
PDF Underlay Tool | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Purge Tool | ✔ | |||
Windows 64-bit and 32-bit Compatible Versions | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Design Director - for object property management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Layer Filters | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Layer Management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Conceptual Selector | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Timestamp | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Confirm replace warning message - Added in warning dialogue | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Customize Ribbon Configuration | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Named View Enhancements | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Reset All Button in UI Theme Dialog Box | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Ribbon UI Theme Support | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
UI Scale Slider in "Customize" Dialog Box and 4K monitor support | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
2D DRAFTING & EDITING | ||||
2D Drawing, Editing and Modifying | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Advanced Drawing Tools (Gear, Surface Tolerance, Text along Curve) | ✔ | |||
Drafting and Detailing Palette - create associative sections and cut planes | ✔ | |||
2D Geometric and Dimension Constraints | ✔ | |||
Associative Arrays and Pattern Tools | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Arrow tools | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Auto Tools (for Scaling, Sizing, Positioning, Rotating, and Movement) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Bezier and Fair Curves | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Centerline and Center Mark | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Hatch Pattern Creator & Gradient Fills | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Smart and Quick Dimension Tools | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Relative Angle Field | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Angular dimension tool improvement | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Construct Similar | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Highlight End Points | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Improved Inspector Bar functionality | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Open/Close property for Polyline | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
PDF /Insert/Underlay - New for TurboCAD Deluxe and Designer | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Pick Point Hatch Improvement | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Remove Overlapping Entities Tool | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Select by Similar - Select objects with shared or similar properties | ✔ | |||
Trace Tools - Trace By Point and Trace By Rectangle incorporated to 64-bit | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
FlatShot (PHLV5, tcHidden) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Constraint Animation | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Quick Dimension improvements | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
3D DRAWING, MODELING, & EDITING | ||||
3D Surface Primitives | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
3D Booleans - Add, Subtract, Intersection | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
3D Helix | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
3D Splines and Polylines | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Extrude (simple) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Assembly Tools | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Sweep | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Revolve | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Advanced Blending Functionality | ✔ | |||
Slot Tools | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
3D Patterns from Compound Profiles | ✔ | |||
Mirror Copy Tool for 3D Objects | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
3D Slice by Facet | ✔ | |||
ACIS® Faceter Surface Tolerance | ✔ | |||
Extrude Improvement - Surface extrude for flat 3D polylines or 3D curves | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Fillet Edges (blend) Tool Improvements | ✔ | |||
Flange Sheet Improvement | ✔ | |||
Unbend Tool Improvement | ✔ | |||
Advanced Cover/Guides | ✔ | |||
3D Print Repair Tool | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
SOLID MODELING & ADVANCED MECHANICAL DESIGN | ||||
Part Tree/History Tree | ✔ | |||
ACIS® Solid Modeling | ✔ | |||
Thread tool | ✔ | |||
Stretch Entity | ✔ | |||
Extract Entity | ✔ | |||
Push/Pull Tool | ✔ | |||
Imprint | ✔ | |||
Law Tools - Curve from Law; Surface with Laws; Offset with Law; Warp Entity by Law | ✔ | |||
Lofting | ✔ | |||
NURBS Support | ✔ | |||
Sheet Metal Tools (bend and unbend, flange, gusset and rib) | ✔ | |||
Smooth Surface Meshes (SMesh) | ✔ | |||
Tweak Face and Revolve Face | ✔ | |||
Twist Entity | ✔ | |||
Twisted Extrude, Extrude to Face Tools | ✔ | |||
ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN & GIS | ||||
House Builder Wizard | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Simple BIM via IFC Support | ✔ | Import only | Import only | |
Intelligent (Parametric) Attribute-rich, Architectural Objects* | ||||
Walls (Self-Healing; Straight, Curved; Block Insert) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Compound Wall Definitions / Multi-Component Walls | ✔ | |||
Windows & Doors | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Muntins - for Windows & Doors | ✔ | |||
Roofs | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Slabs (Floor and Roof Slabs, now with openings) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Stairs | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Rails | ✔ | |||
Markers | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Schedule | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Schedule Tool and Wizard | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Architectural Sections and Elevations (3D-to-2D documentation) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Style Manager | ✔ | Limited | Limited | |
Self-Trimming and Self-Aligning Blocks | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Geolocation of Drawings, Compass Rose | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
"Array tools" improvement for ADT (Architectural Desktop) objects. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
BIM Tool Improvement - BIM palette for show/edit BIM data | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Removal of lines between Floors of multi-story houses | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING AND VISUALIZATION | ||||
3D Photorealistic Rendering | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Customizable Luminances and Material Libraries | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Advance Rendering | ✔ | |||
Caustics for Sun Lights | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Customizable Environments Library | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Luminance of Objects, Shadow Casting, Anti-aliasing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
OpenGL & Hidden Line Rendering | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Ray Tracing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Render Manager | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Shared Shader Sets - support of legacy drawings | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
UV Mapping - now includes SMesh Objects | ✔ | |||
Volumetric Rendering Effects | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Dynamic Cutaway Plane | ✔ | |||
Geo-located Sun & Physical Sky Lighting | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
LightWorks 9.3 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
RedSDK to Lightworks converter improvements | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
New Sun and Sky shader | ✔ | |||
Option to turn on/off assignment of materials to Face with color | ✔ | |||
DATABASE AND PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT; CONTENT | ||||
Blocks, Block Editor and Xref Support | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Internal Database and Custom Data; External Database Connectivity | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Parametric Parts Editor for 2D and 3D parts creation and management | ✔ | |||
Programmable SDK & Ruby Scripting (Compatible with SketchUp Ruby Scripts) | ✔ | |||
Symbols, Part Library | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Table Styles with Property Set Definitions | ✔ | ✔ | ||
INTEROPERABILITY | ||||
Adobe 3D PDF (.U3D and .PRC) Export | ✔ | U3D only | ||
3D Printer Support via .STL Import and Export | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
AutoCAD (DXF, DWG, and DWF) File Compatibility | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Import and Open File Formats | 41 | 25 | 22 | 15 |
Export of Coordinate Data | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Export, Save As, and Publish File Formats | 34 | 27 | 23 | 16 |
Enhanced SketchUp File (SKP) Import - geometry, views, materials, components | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
File Conversion Tool with Batch File Conversion | ✔ | |||
Open and Save ASAT, SAT,IGS, STP mechanical drawings | ✔ | |||
Open and Save 3DM (Rhino), OBJ, SHX (save only) , STP files | ✔ | OBJ, SHX only | ||
TAP File Import - Import TurboApp files from mobile devices | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Google Earth (KML and KMZ) File Support | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Terrain Data (XYZ) File Import and Export Support | ✔ | ✔ | ||
3DM, 3DS | ✔ | |||
3MF | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Point Cloud Support (PCD, PCG, XYZ, ASC) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
DWG/DXF filter | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
FBX Filter | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
STL Improvement - 3D Print check | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
SAB Filter | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
SAT Filter - Support for Curves | ✔ | |||
Spatial InterOp (Catia V4/V5/V6, Inventor, NX 5, Parasolid, Pro/E/Creo, Solid Edge, SolidWorks, VDA-FS) | ✔ | |||
OTHER | ||||
Point Cloud Triangulation | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Subset Point Cloud | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Network License Support | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Spatial ACIS update for 28.0/29.0 | ✔ | |||
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*TurboCAD can read and display ADT-compliant objects embedded in DWG files