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TurboCAD

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13 Reviews and Ratings

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What is TurboCAD?

TurboCAD is 2D and 3D CAD software sold in many different editions, including Deluxe, Expert, and ProPlatinum.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features TurboCAD has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 13 ratings of TurboCAD's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Compatibility with other software and formats

    Allows users to import and export designs in various file formats, ensuring compatibility with other software and stakeholder requirements.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Assembly Design

    Enables users to create and manage assemblies of multiple components, including the ability to define relationships and constraints between parts.

    Category average: 7.2

  • Documentation and Annotation

    Allows users to create detailed technical drawings, including the ability to add dimensions, annotations, and symbols.

    Category average: 6.8

Areas for Improvement

  • Rendering and Visualization

    Allows users to create realistic images and visualizations of their designs, including the ability to apply materials, textures, and lighting effects.

    Category average: 6.3

  • Collaboration and Sharing

    Provides tools for sharing and collaborating on designs with others in real-time, including the ability to track changes and manage design revisions.

    Category average: 6.4

  • Simulation and Analysis

    Provides tools for simulating physical properties and behaviors of designs, allowing users to test and optimize their designs before production.

    Category average: 5.9

Reviews

What users are saying about TurboCAD.
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TurboCAD is Great for Environmental Mapping

Incentivized
Dalton Sink
Aquatic Biologist in Professional Services at Aqua-Weed Control (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use TurboCAD to create scale maps of lakes and ponds with multiple layers highlighting different forms of information. We choose to use TurboCAD because of the compatibility with Google Earth to ensure we have accurate representation of the water bodies.

Pros

  • The range of possibilities for layers
  • It gives precise measurements
  • The UI is user friendly

Cons

  • Some of the load times are lengthy is there a way to streamline this?
  • Path Hatching and Object Trim could use a hot key
  • More intuitive layer management system

Return on Investment

  • Our maps stand above other business in our same field
  • The quality and clarity of the maps allow for more precise budgeting
  • Once it the process and program was understood it would take a good hour off of our projects

Usability

Other Software Used

Power Apps, QuickBooks Online, Tungsten Power PDF

TurboCAD, Real CAD or Not?

Incentivized
Daryl Garner-SavoryView profile
General Manager at Elemod Electronics (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

TurboCAD came in at a great price with a relatively small learning curve. We use TurboCAD in our day-to-day operation where we do drawings for clients' approvals and for production via our laser cutters. This package has addressed things like errors in design by having a blocks feature that once drawn and correct will remain so throughout the design process.

Pros

  • Easy to use
  • Detailing is simple
  • Toolbar is easy to understand and navigate.

Cons

  • Shortcut keys more in line with AutoCAD.
  • 3D rendering could be simpler.
  • Updated interface.

Most Important Features

  • Well priced
  • Fairly easy to learn
  • Easy enough to use

Return on Investment

  • Ability to render quotes.
  • Ability to supply complete drawings.
  • Easy to use interface provides a faster design time window.

Alternatives Considered

AutoCAD and DraftSight

Other Software Used

AutoCAD, DraftSight, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite

Turbo Cad Pro Platinum is a really professional engineering program!

Incentivized
James ArjunaView profile
Factory Engineer, Design Engineer, Research and Development Engineer in Manufacturing at HavenMade Colorado, SilverSpas, Netherlands (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Produces accurate drawings to scale, and with several ways to show the "views" to people in need of them at our factory.
  • Relatively easy to use, once you understand the toolset. You can draw anything with it.
  • Sending files to CNC machine shops to produce parts is easy with this program.
  • Sending to mold making companies works out well. Just ask them what file format they want and TurboCAD can give it to them.

Cons

  • It would be good to have some standardized rendering, lighting and color schemes to make rendering faster. But once you learn how to place lights and adjust the shadows, it works fine. For some projects, I just want to send a color rendering faster.
  • Turbo CAD Pro Platinum is not for people who require an easy "intuitive" learning. You have to study the manual and the TC tutorials. There are plenty of free youtube videos to show how to do it, but it does take some learning.
  • This program has been around since the 1980s, as a good alternative to the high-end programs. Now it has expanded into a huge full-featured engineering program. Sometimes it has glitches with color rendering, and you have to work at it.

Return on Investment

  • Having issues with new employees learning how to build our products. The images are extremely helpful, in terms of training and making sure the products are built to our high standards. Saves untold time, because our factory is in Holland and many employees speak different languages. The photo renderings, speak everyone's language.
  • Improved prototyping. We send parts out t0 be made by CNC and they come back nearly perfect for our needs. We have not used the 3D printing technology yet. Been waiting for that to develop better.
  • The only negative impact is that people are reluctant to learn it because it takes a certain degree of intelligence to understand it. But if you are an engineer, it is easy to understand.

Just my thoughts on TurboCAD

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Manufacturing (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Good scale tools
  • Easy to pick up
  • The exporter

Cons

  • Hard to get onto your computer
  • Bad UI
  • Rendering

Return on Investment

  • We use it when we need to, but we have to share computers because a lot of people prefer other programs
  • There are cheaper programs that do more

Alternatives Considered

Vision4D and Space Designer 3D

Other Software Used

Space Designer 3D, Kine3D, Sourcefire 3D