IMSI®/Design, the developer of the #1 best-selling CAD in retail, announced today that it is shipping a significant upgrade to its flagship product, TurboCAD® Pro V16.


Drafting and Detailing:

• Drafting Palette. Exceptionally powerful and unique capabilities that expedite the drafting-to-detailing process. Create associative 2D sections based on standard views or sectional planes of 3D surface or ACIS® solid models, including XREFs and imported models from ADT and Google™ SketchUp™. Create nested, associative sections (i.e., cross-sections of cross-sections). 2D views may be placed in paperspaces, hatched, dimensioned, and annotated.

• XREF Manager. Built into the Block Palette. Manage external references more effectively. XREFs can be exported with .DWG or .DXF drawings for greater AutoCAD® file compatibility.


3D Modeling Enhancements:

• ACIS® Solid Modeling Engine. Now updated to V18. From industry leader Spatial.

• Quick Pull. Great productivity enhancement for quickly modeling 3D objects. Select any enclosed geometry on a 3D face and then press or pull it out of the design. Even specify draft angle and add a chamfer or fillet to the geometry being modified. Works with solids or surfaces.

• Helix. New tool that allows users to quickly draw 2D and 3D spirals.


Architectural Enhancements:

• Enhanced Doors and Windows. Right/Left and Inside/Outside flip options now available in Node Editing. The following Vertical Alignment properties have also been added: Head and sill height for windows; head and threshold height for doors.


Lighting and Rendering Enhancements:

• LightWorks® Rendering. Now updated to V7.9. Provides global illumination, final gather, tone mapping, gamma correction, lens flare, ambient occlusion, and dozens of new material shaders.

• Materials to Facet. Simply drag and drop materials from the Material Palette onto a 3D object's face. Quickly add multiple material finishes to a single object.


Improved Compatibility and Interoperability:

• Improved .DWG/.DXF Import/Export. Ability to export XREFs with .DWG or .DXF drawings.

• Google™ SketchUp™ Import. Greatly enhanced. More information about the GoogleSketchUp model imported and supplemental rendering, lighting and materials information is imported if the model has been rendered with IMSI/Design's IDX Renditioner product.

• Google SketchUp Export. New ability to convert models into native SketchUp (.SKP) files for opening directly in Google SketchUp.