TurboCAD for AutoCAD Users (4th Edition) is a complete migration guide for AutoCAD
users evaluating or switching to TurboCAD. It compares the two products side-by-side and walks
through six hands-on lessons, showing the AutoCAD workflow next to the TurboCAD equivalent for
each task.

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What’s inside

Introduction

• What TurboCAD offers the AutoCAD user
• File compatibility — DWG, DXF, DWF, SAT, STL, and more, including formats from other CAD programs
• The TurboCAD user interface, mapped against AutoCAD’s own toolbars, bars, and menus
• How TurboCAD differs from AutoCAD — what’s missing, what’s unique to TurboCAD, and TurboCAD-specific jargon
• Pricing

Six hands-on lessons

1. Setting Up Drawings — starting a drawing, creating layers, snap and grid settings, saving
2. Inserting Objects — construction lines, rectangles, circles, arcs, blocks, linetypes and layers
3. Applying the Finishing Touches — dimensioning, paper space, text, plotting
4. 3D Design — extrusion, solid unions and subtractions, model assembly, filleting edges
5. DWG Import & Export — accurate DWG translation, import/export options, embedding and linking objects
6. Advanced TurboCAD Tools — customizing commands, keyboards, and the UI; palettes; drawing aids

Reference

• AutoCAD and TurboCAD keyboard shortcut summaries
• A TurboCAD–AutoCAD terminology dictionary

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