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TurboCAD OK for the price

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Contributed by: 2ndgenirish Saturday, April 14 2007 @ 06:58 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

I purchased, downloaded and installed TurboCAD v.2.0 SP1 (Build 657) about two weeks ago. I have been teaching myself to use it.

Problems: Tools don't always operate as expected. The interface is not very Mac-like.

Setting up a polygon and filling it turned out to be unusually complicated. Using the "Chain select" command, then the join command followed by color then fill pattern commands *in that order* produces a fill. Once you understand it, things seem easy; the first time was a bear.

Documentation is very weak. Trial and error works faster.

Good points: . It does work. It opens both binary (.dwg) and text (.dxf) autocad files, a very good thing. Some of the tools are easy and intuitive. I had a basic drawing done within about 3 hours of installing the program.

With some patience I have been able to do everything I set out to do.

For the money I feel pretty good about it. But then, this is not my day job.   
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TurboCAD OK for the price - 2ndgenirish

I have changed my mind about this product. It does not work. DO NOT BUY!

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Sunday, April 05 2009 @ 07:35 PM PDT