Other updates include rendering, architectural and user interface enhancements. The 2016 update to TurboCAD from IMSI/Design includes enhancements to its 3D mechanical design feature set, including the ability to generate a variety of 3D shapes by using “law-based” design. Other new features include updates to its visualization rendering engine, new features for architectural … [Read more...] about TurboCAD 2016 enhances 3D mechanical design feature set
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IMSI/Design TurboCAD Mac PowerPack fixes 3D models
Models made to be manufacturing diagrams often need editing to be ready for 3D printing. As 3D printing reaches beyond the largest manufacturers and into small businesses and the hobbyist community, people are discovering that models made to be 3D manufacturing diagrams are often not good enough to be directly manufactured via 3D printing. Edges that leak and walls that are … [Read more...] about IMSI/Design TurboCAD Mac PowerPack fixes 3D models
New TurboPDF from IMSI/Design makes PDF-based workflow more affordable
$99 for professional PDF creation, editing, and management. For years CAD vendor IMSI/Design has supported PDF as an output from its various design products. Now it has taken its knowledge of PDF one step further and written a new program for creating PDF documents and integrating them into a business workflow. New TurboPDF is useful whether or not CAD drawings are part of the … [Read more...] about New TurboPDF from IMSI/Design makes PDF-based workflow more affordable
TurboSite update adds editable PDF forms
Now construction and maintenance site inspection can be drawings-based or forms-based on an iPad. IMSI/Design has added editable PDF forms to TurboSite, its iOS application for mobile field reporting. The addition extends TurboSite from being only a drawings-based approach to site evaluation by making it possible to use pre-existing forms. TurboSite allows uploading of … [Read more...] about TurboSite update adds editable PDF forms
TurboSite adds punch lists, satellite data markup to iPad field reporting app
Significant update also adds 2D PDF estimating, new positioning options, and more. TurboSite, the unique AEC field reporting software app for iPad and iPhone, turns 4.0 this week with a variety of new features, including punch lists, satellite and photo data markup, and PDF-based estimating. TurboSite, from long-time CAD vendor IMSI/Design, was first introduced in 2013 … [Read more...] about TurboSite adds punch lists, satellite data markup to iPad field reporting app
TurboSite releases plug-in for AutoCAD
The free app makes it possible to view geo-located video and photos directly within AutoCAD. Today IMSI/Design releases a free AutoCAD plug-in to its popular TurboSite mobile app for field and site survey. The plug-in allows AutoCAD users to add and view geo-located video, photos, mark-ups, and text notes taken in the field on an iPad or iPhone to be viewed directly inside … [Read more...] about TurboSite releases plug-in for AutoCAD
IMSI/Design to port TurboSite to Google Glass
Development plan announced at AIA Conference. Retail CAD vendor IMSI/Design, which lately has been leading the move to mobile devices for AEC, today made public their plans to port its TurboSite software for site evaluation and field reporting to Google Glass. TurboSite currently runs on iPad and is used to document walk-throughs and create punch lists for commercial … [Read more...] about IMSI/Design to port TurboSite to Google Glass
TurboCAD turns V20
Who would have thought back in 1986 a $99 CAD product would be around so long? The list of new features is long. In 1986 two really small teams of developers—one near Seattle, the other in South Africa—released an inexpensive 2D CAD product for the IBM PC. The one based in the US (Generic CADD) quickly gained media attention and grew rapidly, becoming such a perceived threat … [Read more...] about TurboCAD turns V20
TurboSite update adds HTML reporting, AutoShapes
We called version 1.0 of this innovative AEC iPad app a bargain at $495. Apps like this one reveal the true utility of the iPad. TurboSite, a field and site survey iPad app from IMSI/Design, is now at version 1.1 with the addition of several new features including HTML reporting and AutoShapes, a gesture-based precision drawing tool. TurboSite takes advantage of geo-location, … [Read more...] about TurboSite update adds HTML reporting, AutoShapes
TurboSite for iPad ends tedium of documenting site visits
Walk through site and floor plans based on calibrated geo-location, and then generate reports from the same app. If it works as advertised, $999 is a bargain. Tiptoeing into a new technology is an old story. When cinema began, directors put a camera in front of a stage play. Then somebody got the bright idea of taking the camera outside and writing scripts to match. The first … [Read more...] about TurboSite for iPad ends tedium of documenting site visits