CADCourse Comment March 2003

The CADCourse Comment!
Exposing the Power of TurboCAD.
March 2003

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TurboCAD Professional V9 Now Available!

IMSI has publicly announced that TurboCAD Professional V9 will be available on March 4! We can definitely tell you that the product looks terrific. CADCourse has been eagerly anticipating this release as it promises to provide many features and bug fixes that long time TurboCAD users have been requesting for years.

Give me more info about the features in TurboCAD V9

FREE Online Demos and Training - Live over the Web

CADCourse has set up an online WebEx training center to better assist our customers. We now have the ability to offer free online demonstrations of TurboCAD and CADCourse related training materials.

If you have high-speed internet connection and a responsive computer you will definitely benefit from coming to visit us online in our training center. You can even sign up for a free introductory training course with a live instructor to help you get started on the road to mastering the essentials of TurboCAD.

Sessions are available as both scheduled and live open sessions. We do our best to make live open sessions available as much as possible. If you see a session listed in the Training Center as "Free Open Session" you can simply click the “Join Now” link to immediately join the session. Alternatively you can call us at 707.658.2770 and (based on our availability) we will be happy to start a session for you as soon a possible. You can also register for a scheduled demo/training class by clicking the “Registration” link next to the listed session with the time and date fits your schedule.

Go to live and scheduledd online demos and training

Special Offer: Pro V9 Upgrade/MTC Architectural/CC House Plan for as low as $269*

CADCourse is in the business of adding serious value to TurboCAD. Resultantly we are in a unique position to be able to offer this excellent combination of software and training material. Get TurboCAD Pro V9 Upgrade, with Kevin Doucette’s new Mastering TurboCAD Architectural, and CAD Courses’ own House Plan multimedia movies for unbeatable prices from as low as $269.95 *for existing V8 Pro users and from $319.95 for V8 Std and Designer users.

YES! Take me to the Specials Page

Bug Watch

As with every new software release, there are some issues in TurboCAD V9 that either work differently or just flat out don’t work.

Switching between wire frame and rendered views.
In V9 it is possible to create and manipulate 3D objects in rendered mode. This new feature greatly enhances the ability to work with 3D objects. In earlier versions of TurboCAD it was not possible to edit objects in anything but wire frame view. So the accepted method of returning from rendered view to wire frame was to press the Esc key but this is no longer possible in V9 as the Esc key is required for use in the editing tools which are now available in rendered mode. So you now actually have to switch back to wire frame view by clicking the wire frame ‘tea cup’, either from the new right-click local popup menu or from the normal interface. Once you get used to the new method you will be thankful for the new functionality.

Importing from FloorPlan v7 into V9 Pro
The Print Space Maker in TurboCAD Pro v9 is not working correctly, at least it wasn’t when we tried to import the FloorPlan drawing from the CADCourse House Plan tutorials. We found that only the model space is bought in semi-correctly as a TurboCAD Drawing. Anything created in paper space appears to lack scale or dimension settings. The problem appears within the Print Space Maker itself when inserting floor plans or elevations. When the drawing is eventually brought into TurboCAD the Viewports have no scale or layers. The model space also behaved erratically with spurious lines stretching way into outer space – or at least till Texas. Moral of the story is beware of the Print Space Maker when importing the CADCourse House Plan BMF drawing! You will eventually be able to get the drawing into TC but not without jumping thru many loops to get there. Hopefully we will see a fix on this one in the first maintenance release.

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