Is TurboCad 6.5 any good? 2

[smokehouse]

I see Turbo-Cad 6.5 on ebay for less than 20 bux for an unopened version. It talks about 2D and 3D capabilities.
Could this be used to design plastic injection molds?

 

[MadMango]

A T-square, scale, slide rule, pencil and paper can be used to design molds, though it wouldn't be easy. If you are looking at the softawre in any sort of professional application, I think you would find many pitfalls when purchasing a your CAD software for $20. "Happy the Hare at morning for she is ignorant to the Hunter's waking thoughts."

 

[Adrian2]

Dear Willp58;

People I know who have used TurboCad have nothing but good things to say about it. If you are going to use it buy a new version and register it so you can use the online support and the turbocad user groups. Its not that expensive. Regardless of what CAD system you use you are going to be most productive if you have people to turn to who can solve your CAD problems when you are knee deep in a complicated design and cant afford time wasted fixing a CAD problem. Having good dealer support is vital for that reason. I think AutoCad 2002 LT (At the least) would be better for you simply because there are more people to turn to for help and many of them will certainly be using it for injection mould design. Far less people use turbocad although I'm sure there are a few out there designing moulds with it.

 

[austim]

I use Turbocad fairly frequently, as my primary drafting software. I am generally quite happy with it. (In fact I have stayed with Turbocad since the days of Turbocad for Dos)

Some very basic things are remarkably easy to do in Turbocad that seem to be unnecessarily awkward in Autocad - eg to zoom in/out centred on the cursor, I just press the + or - key on the numeric pad; to pan around a drawing I use the arrow keys.

I have had occasional problems in saving as Autocad *.dwg or *.DXF files, but for $20 unopened I would jump at it. It is well worth a lot more than that.

 

[Like2Strike]

Yes,

TurboCad is worth the 20 bucks!

Even if you just need it as a viewer program for .dwg files. Sometimes, I will have trouble opening earlier version AutoCad files in AutoCad but have always have been able to open in TurboCad. I fell away from being a fan of AutoCad after version 12 and now use TuboCad and AutoSketch to do 2D work.

Added Tip: Before you pay out $20 on EBay, check-out

http://www.pricewatch.com

I have found items for even less than the selling prices on EBay. I believe that the sellers on EBay get their merchandise from Pricewatch.

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[AJUK]

I use TurboCAD for all of my professional structural engineering design work. I have used Microstation, Autocad and some others in the past and TC is by far the easiest and more enjoyable to use. I have been using it since version 4, now on v8.1, and it just gets better and better. As for the price, at 20 bucks its a no brainer to quibble. Check out the galleries on the site

http://www.turbocad.com

and look at some of the stunning work people have posted.

As for technical support, it is second to none - its a free forum! You will get almost instant answers from very experienced users and developers who know what they are talking about. I cannot praise TC enough and no, I dont work for them. Buy it and enjoy!