Turbocad Mac 2D/3D V 2.0

List Price: $199.99 Discount Price: $5.95

Features:

• Powerful Tools that Bring Your Ideas to Life. TurboCAD Mac Pro is packed with the highest quality drafting tools and the latest ACIS® realistic rendering engine. Create 3D models and precise 2D drawings, enjoy 11,000+ 2D/3D symbols, and easily import/export to 19 common file types. Anything you can dream up, TurboCAD Mac Pro brings to life. Graphic Design Compatible Easily turn your Ad

Customer Reviews:

Best CAD package I've ever used. [Posted on 2006-12-10]
I've been using CAD since 1991. First FastCad, then AutoCAD, starting with r13 back in '96.

I wanted a CAD program to use on my Mac, to create models for importation into Bryce. I downloaded the TurboCAD 15-day demo from their site. It fits the bill!

I believe it is much better than (the overrated and overpriced) AutoCAD. Case in point: during my day job, I use AutoCAD 2002. I needed to draw a simple spiral, to show the end view of a spring. AutoCAD doesn't do spirals. TurboCAD does (and helixes, too). I came home, created a spiral on TurboCAD, exported the drawing in AutoCAD's .dwg format, and took it to work. The day was saved.

Nice one, but consider some time to get used to [Posted on 2007-08-23]
This is a very nice software for 3d and 2d work, specially considering it's price. However, as with any other, you should always consider the time to learn it. Sometimes you need 1 simple thing, but since you don't know where it is you loose a lot of time searching for help.

Works in Leopard [Posted on 2008-06-03]
It works fine under 10.5 Leopard, but there is a trick to installing it:

The main TurboCad installer works fine, but to to install the Symbols Library you have to bypass their installer app because it doesn't work in 10.5. What I ended up doing was mounting the installer from the disc and then right-clicked to reveal "view package contents". From there just navigate to: Contents/Installer Items/Symbols and just drag the folder over to replace to one already in the application folder.

If you have any trouble be sure and check the permission settings for the TurboCad folder. It's a bit of trouble, but for ten bucks, who cares!

Well Worth The Price [Posted on 2008-06-27]
TC Mac Pro V2 is well worth the price if you are looking for a low cost highly capable drafting/modeling program for the Mac. I was very surprised to see how many features it had. Snaps, Layers, Symbols, 3D symbols, Bill of materials, multiple scales, it's all there.

Coming from an AutoCAD background ther was a learning curve, but not that long of a curve. You can find video tutorials with the ViaCAD series of demos from punch software. TC Mac is closely related to ViaCAD Pro except it does not have the ability to apply materials to models (yet) or the cost of a few extra hundreds of dollars.

Excellent quality CAD for the Mac [Posted on 2008-07-22]
Look at the price! It's a steal at the moment, and there have been rebates available lately as well.

Okay, the software itself is pretty darned good. It's setup a bit differently than AutoCAD, but is just as functional. (At least for myself, drawing reasonably simple mechanical and electromechanical systems.) If you have any CAD needs for a Macintosh, this is hard to beat.

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