Features:

• 2D Drafting & 3D to 2D Conversion
• Graphic Design Compatible
• Over 275 Drawing Tools
• Improved Solid Modeling Engine
• Over 11,000 Drag-and-Drop Symbols

Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
TurboCAD Mac Pro has powerful drafting and design features, plus additional powerful tools for creating complex 3D models, 3D OpenGL renderings, and over 11,000 2D/3D symbols and parts. Intuitive command tools, automated user tips and customizable keyboard shortcuts make it easy to get started. TurboCAD Explorer - Manage your design with the intuitive Layer Manager. Effortlessly add content using the Symbol Palette with access to over 7,000+ drag and drop symbols. Customize your preferences from unit measurements, colors settings, and display options, to grid conditions, snaps, keyboard short cuts and dialog positions. Perfect for multi-user situations such as computer labs, schools, and station sharing. Icon based Show/Hide menu makes it easy to toggle between various parts of your design. Reverse the direction of your zoom with the simple roll of your mouse wheel. Easily perform a partial selection by simply selecting from right to left. Easily create and replace tool icons with externally located Skins folder. Quickly create production-ready drawings, with auxiliary details and section views from existing 3D parts. TurboCAD Mac was built from the ground up to run on Apple computers, so you're always sure to get the top performance you've come to expect on your Mac. Fractional and Dimension Display Double Line Tool Improved File Properties Export your designs to BMP and JPEG raster formats, also supports 15 export and 21 import formats Universal Support - Operate on both Intel and Power PC based Mac computers with Leopard OS X Support

Rating : - Too many flaws for serious work
If you are looking for a Mac version of TurboCAD, don't buy this program - it isn't TurboCAD. It appears to have been produced by Punch software and the support from IMSI is of little help.

The first problem I encountered is that when zoomed in on a drawing, the screen display often becomes hopelessly inaccurate. Lines don't meet where they should, and snaps are way off the displayed line. Also the rendering of curves is very crude.

The showstopper for me (I've returned to Autosketch on PC) is that line thicknesses can't be controlled properly. Line thicknesses (Pen Weights) always scale when printed - there is no way to print them to a specified width. For example 1.00mm line thickness, shows OK on screen, when printed at a scale of 1:50 it becomes a hairline. To get an actual 1.0mm printed line, I have to set the pen weight at 50mm, which is useless on screen. There appears to be some confusion in the minds of the designers of this program. Genuine TurboCAD had a Width Scaling setting ('Device' or 'World'). TurboCAD Mac Pro appears to be fixed to 'Device' on screen, but 'World' on printing. This can't be changed - according to IMSI support this is an issue they are "working on".

There is a lot about this program that could be really good, but save your cash until they've got the bugs out. It is worrying that IMSI don't appear to want to get them out.