TurboCADables

Reference guides to using CAD software, with a focus on TurboCAD. There aren't very many books devoted to TurboCAD. One possibility is to discover the TurboCAD Training Guide. This guide explains many TurboCAD keyboard commands and shortcuts. Another source of information explaining techniques and procedures is the TurboCAD User Group - members' posts on the message board represent a reference knowledgebase. Finally, available as a reference guide is a tutorial that explains how-to create custom hatch patterns for TurboCAD. The number of how-to tutorials are admittedly limited at present, but writing additional tutorials are a future project of mine!

Creating TurboCAD Hatch Patterns

This guide describes how to create, modify, or add custom hatch patterns for use in legacy versions of TurboCAD v3 to v9 including LE. TurboCAD, like most CAD software, has a hatching tool that fills polygons with a brush style pattern - either a hatch or bitmap pattern. These patterns are commonly used to denote a specific property or material - glass, wood, etc. This leads to a common question asked by many users of TurboCAD: is it possible to use custom hatch patterns in TurboCAD? The answer is yes…
How-to Tutorial - creating hatch patterns

TurboCAD 2D/3D Training Guide

TurboCAD Mac 2D

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The IMSI/Design Store

The TurboCAD Training Guide teaches new users how to use TurboCAD. The guide is organized into a number of modules, with each module covering a fundamental area of techniques used in CAD. The modules are organized into quick, easy-to-follow lessons that allow you to focus on a single aspect of TurboCAD. Following each lesson is a step-by-step exercise allowing you to immediately apply the information you learned in the lesson. In addition, the training guide contains longer, challenging exercises that are extended projects. As you complete each project at your own pace, you'll find your knowledge and confidence increasing using this guide…
TurboCAD 3D Training Guide - learn more

Search the Message Board

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The IMSI/Design Store

The TurboCAD-File-Library is the world's largest TurboCAD user group with over 4500 members. The group often discusses techniques on the message board, which is hosted by the Group Listserver. If you are seeking a technique or an answer, try searching the group's message board…
TurboCAD-File-Library - search message board

Summary of Recent Messages

Listed below is a summary of the latest messages posted by members on the group's message board. Members are welcome to post on our publicly accessible message board. To become a member, join or subscribe! The board is intended to be a public repository of peer-to-peer tips and techniques - contribute to the knowledgebase of TurboCAD by becoming a member of the group and communicate with other users…
TurboCAD-File-Library - user group homepage

Re: Dimensions

Neat, Alan I can group a dwg layer with the associated dimension layer. What a great idea. The more I learn, the more I realize I do not know. Thank you. Terry...

Re: Dimensions

Terry When your experimenting with layers make sure you check out the layer sets. This will give you the ability to control many layers at the same time....

Re: Dimensions

... I'll have to try that, always used the Options menu for things. ... I'm not new to CAD in general, but I go for spells where I don't need to use TurboCAD...

Re: Dimensions

Jerry One final thought--the trick of clicking on the icon in the tool bar works for all the icons too, not just dimensions. E.g., if you want the lines in...

Re: Dimensions

... Thanks, never thought of right clicking on the toolbar. Up to now the dimensions always looked fine. ... I have separate layers for each dimension view...

Re: Dimensions

... Ah, click on the TOOLBAR. Guess I needed more caffeine. :) I wonder how they got changed to be so small? Anyway, thanks, sometimes I need a good whack...

Re: Dimensions

... Are you saying that the dimension you changed went back to tiny, or that the next dimension added to the dwg was tiny? It is true that changing the...

Re: Dimensions

Hey Jerry What Greg told you will will get the properties to stick. On the toolbar, right click on the dimensions, select properties. If you change the scale...

Re: Dimensions

... I've changed the format properties of a dimension and then added another of the same type and it's back to tiny. ... It works...for that one dimension but...

Re: Dimensions

Jerry I have had similar problems myself. I know that if I right click, e.g., the orthogonal dimension icon on the dimension tool bar, I can set the default...

Re: Dimensions

... No, some way to set the default so I don't have to right click on every-single-dimension and rescale it. Basically, set scale to 1:1 and stay there. --...

Re: Dimensions

Jerry Are you looking for the right click on the dimension button (not the actual dimension) and making changes there? Greg B Camp Courageous of Iowa Skype:...

Dimensions

I must be having a mental block, where do you set the defaults for dimensions in V15? My dimensions are suddenly scaling to 0.039 so the text is only a couple...

Re: Default Reference Point

Keith, Is this for newly created TurboCAD 2d objects (in V16) or opening up objects created in previous version? Could the objects have some hidden offset...

Re: widescreen monitors

LaVerne, what you need to do is look at the documentation for your monitor and see what the native resolution is for it...it will be listed in the owners...

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