This set of movies discusses the challenges facing an AutoCAD user trying to learn TurboCAD and visa versa. CADCourse.com brings together renowned experts in their fields to discuss compatibility and usability issues between both products.
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Robert Berry
Ralph Grabowski background
AutoCAD experience
Honest approach
Dave Taylor
TurboCAD development history
Sharing drawings and translation issues
Hand drafting verses scanned drawings
AutoCAD LT vs. AutoCAD Compatibility and Programmability
100% per DWG compatibility
How AutoCAD made its name
First CAD “low cost” product on PC that allowed customization
Add-on application for AutoCAD.
Lisp programming language
ARX programs with custom objects
ACIS Solid Modeling Engine and AutoCAD
ACIS embedded into AutoCAD DWG files
TurboCAD uses a TCW file extension
DWG File and TCW file formats
DXF vs. DWG vs. DWF file Formats
Reading DWG in TurboCAD
Open Design Alliance
DWG software filter libraries
DWG pervasive in the corporate market
Saving in different versions of DWG R14 and R12
Loading the CADCourse Interface Configuration
TurboCAD v12.1 and AutoCAD 2007
DWG Files format
DWG the standard for CAD drawings
Encrypting the DWG file format
Saving vs. Exporting in AutoCAD
Saving a DWG in AutoCAD
Template Files
Saving DXF formats thru R12
Exporting to 3D DWF
Sharing drawing on the Internet
Viewing 3D standards
MTX 3D Viewer
Metafile
SAT (Save as Text)
3D Geometry of the SAT format
STL Stereo lithography
EPS Encapsulated Postscript
PDF based on Postscript
DXX Extract
Bitmap Files
Tiff and Jpg formats
SAT file format
Saving options
DWG as Blocks
Differences between Save As and Export
Saving in Different File formats in TurboCAD
TurboCAD more flexible with number of file formats
TCW format
3DS
BMP
Setting resolution for bitmap export
DWG export settings
Exploding Text and Blocks
Make a sample drawing with all entities to test import export
Issues with text and complex splines of variable width and polylines
Options when opening DWG in TurboCAD
DWG does not use units
Choosing units when opening DWG files
Choosing Fonts
SHX vs. True Type fonts
Recover and Audit options to deal use corrupted drawings
Hatches coming in from TurboCAD
Brush styles editor to bring in PAT files
Plotters vs. Printers
IGES format
IGF mapping format
FCD Fast CAD format
VRML Worlds
MTX Metastream
PLT format
Importing PLT into AutoCAD
SAT ACIS format
STEP format successor to IGES
WMF resolution via setup button
DGN Micro station format
SVG Scalable Vector Graphics format
DWF vs. SVG
SHX shape format vs. SHX text format
Saving and opening DWG in TurboCAD
Round trip compatibility
Watch out for data loss
Comparing interfaces
Command Line interface
AutoCAD menus
Drop down selection
Workspaces
Palettes
Symbols and Blocks
Materials Palette
Storing settings of tools with the palette
Spacebar ends or restarts command
Multiple command repeats
Right click functionality in AutoCAD
Object Snaps via right click
Shift-right click for snaps
TurboCAD Interface
Snap toolbars
Palettes
Command Line vs. Inspector Bar
Entering length and angles in AutoCAD
Polar Snaps
Dynamic Input
Apostrophe Zoom to zoom in middle of a command
Pros and cons of Dynamic input
Using the Command Line
Accessing the Palettes
Keyboard Shortcuts displayed in menus
Running Snaps Dialog
SEKES quicker than AutoCAD equivalents
OSNAP option to show snap modes
Choose of object to select
AutoCAD uses Ctrl key to cycle objects
Press Esc to exit
Preview Highlighting
Complex vs. simple drawings
Selection methods in AutoCAD
Moving objects with selection nodes
Noun Verb vs. Verb Noun
Command first or selection first
Rectangles in AutoCAD behave as polygons
Selections nodes in TurboCAD
Node Edit mode in TurboCAD
Stretch command in AutoCAD
Space toggle node editing modes
Base Point for scaling
How reference point relates to
Inspector Bar
Base Point for scaling
Properties Palette in AutoCAD to make changes to object
No real rectangles in AutoCAD
Calculator in AutoCAD
No parametric features in AutoCAD
Sector Properties of the Inspector Bar
Moving objects in AutoCAD
Line widths vs. pen widths
Pen Colors for line widths
Units for line widths
World vs. Device widths
Polyline vertex widths
Node Edit for linked widths
World vs. Device Widths
Selection methods vs. area measurements
Geometric Select Edit
Drag and Drop Hatches in AutoCAD
Hatches associated to original object
Preview Hatch Scale
Text islands
Showing or hiding hatch patterns
Hatching in TurboCAD
Brush Patterns
Brush can be a property in TC
Using the Hatch tools to create additional entities
Hatch By Entity to create a path
Invisible Lines
2D Boolean Operations
Changing profiles of the regions
Join command to create a polyline
Insertion points for blocks
Base Command
Design Center
Editing Blocks
Editing Blocks in TurboCAD
Properties of blocks
Updating multiple blocks at once
Sharing blocks across drawings
Copying and pasting blocks
Design Director in TurboCAD
AutoCAD Crash
Drawing Recovery Manager
No Glue point to link symbols
Visio vs. Actrix
Block Editor
Relative vs. Absolute references
Finding the name of the Xref
Xref objects missing in DWG files
Construction lines
Clearing constructions
Construction layer
Turning an entity into a construction
Xline and Ray commands
Parallel vs. offset command
Multiline vs. Double lines
Tangent lines
Circle commands
TTR vs Tangent to three entities
Bezier and Spline Curves
Revision Clouds
Dimension properties
Measurements tool
Area measurements
Distance only between two points in AutoCAD
Boundary command
Quick Dimensions
Dimension size
Dim Scale Command
Selecting multiple dimensions
Shift unselects
Dimension Properties
Predefined Dimension Styles
Dim Scale in TurboCAD
Automatically selecting lines
Quick Dimensions in TurboCAD
Moving the text of a Dimension
No 3D Dimensions
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