Since many years I have been working as a freelance cad operator, for private companies as well as for small, medium size and multinational enterprises, in a multidisciplinary environment, ranging from mechanical, wooden, steel en building constructions and also inplanting plans for operating permits and fire resistance tests.
Starting from my education, I start sketching in the eighties on a drawing table, focusing on line quality, line thickness, scaling, etc…
This was mostly executed through two-dimensional technical drawings, where precision and information were primordial.
This was manageable for one time and medium size projects, but for industrial projects, the amount of plans adds up substantially.
Hence, I was forced to switch to a Cad program, including my first 2D program Autosketch.
Subsequently, I was given the privilege to work for some companies for a couple of years with Autocad full.
In doing so, I was struggling with compatibility problems, I had to work with the DXF extention, wich had to be transmitted afterwards.
That did not always go as planned and I kept searching for alternatives. Eventually I ended up with TurboCad v8.0.
What immediately struck me in this program was the render quality from the build in Lightworks render engine and the compatibility of the most common Cad-programmes such as import and export .*. DWG .*. STEP .*.IGES and many more.
Because of my Autocad background, I had to draw initially in Autocad and import and render in TurboCad, but thanks to the complementary manual and the User forum, in the Cad community already for a long time known to possibly be the best forum in the world, I have to learn to draw with TurboCad and I am still impressed by the speed and user friendliness it operates with.
We found that TurboCad was able to produce quickly convincing presentations.
Not only its user-friendly, but also its drawing quality, file size and compatibility, as well as its hardware play an important part in a Cad environment.
There are loads and loads of High End Cad programs available for which the necessary High End hardware is indispensable and it quickly drains the budget of small enterprices.
Meanwhile, the program has evolved quite a lot: just think for example the Tool, drafting and selection info pallet, making the program nearly entire parametrical.
We write now many years later, and with the help of an IKZ system*, we verifying every outgoing drawing, not only with regard to construction, but also to drawing and plot errors, line thickness and quality. Therefore I was surprised to see the result with an Canon IPF 750 A0 plotter, what you see is what you get!.
Compared to earlier plot files with other cad programs, the contrast could not be any clearer.
The exporting possibilities and visualization in this this cad program are equally as important when dealing with visual presentations. This one of the strongest points within TurboCad.
In general, different parties are involved in the decision about a certain project and it would be not the first time that a visualisation is the key factor when it comes to the final decision.
Well TurboCad came out brilliantly in all stages.
Van der Donck Stefaan 