Did try Turbo Cad but when General Cad came along, it was based on the old Generic Cad using the same two letter commands, I jumped on that and never looked back. I did purchase Auto Cad lite because I needed to upgrade from the old Dos based software, did not like the logic of the software. Really turned me off of having any desire to support any Auto Desk product. Started out using Generic Cad before Auto Desk bought it out and then stopped supporting it. I am using an older Version - TC 17 - that can be had from Amazon for about $30. The paper space features for creating print views at whatever scale are also an excellent feature. Among the many features, I find the dimension measurement functions very useful in lofting.
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It took me about a week to figure out how to print a 1-pixel line. The product is "deep" and it is worth taking time to learn the features and settings. I have printed out the 2D portions of that and find it a very useful reference. The abbreviated User Guide that comes with the TurboCAD Deluxe product is relatively useless but a full 700+ page pdf version can be found online.
TurboCAD is also a much more capable program.Īs with any complex software, there is a learning curve and I spent about a month this summer getting familiar with the product.
I was forced to change because the product I used for Naiad, Visio Technical 4.1, is long extinct. I have recently become a convert to TurboCAD and find it to be extremely well suited to drafting model plans.