TurboCAD

[Warped]

does anyone use this?? because I used to use this program at school and just need to know its relevance in todays market. I can get a copy for $9.99 which is relatively cheap for this program if I recall. Our school used to spend $300 on this program so I'm just curious why its so cheap now

 

[KagutsuchiZA]

My brother is an architect and he uses archicad. There are some big companies around my area that uses Autocad. Both are very good programs. I have used Turbocad to draw up plans for a project my dad worked on last year and it worked fine.

I would recommend getting Autocad or archicad if you can afford it, but if not then I believe turbocad would suffice. It is a good program to start practicing on anyway.

Hope this helps.

 

[Dan]

Depends what industry. Every small design or manufacturing business handles some flavour of Autocad to some extent because that is what suppliers and customers use. Bigger manufacturing companies tend to use more advanced programs like Inventor, Pro-E, Solidworks, or Unigraphics. Autocad is still probably the most common piece of software because it is prevalent. If you learn from an intelligent feature driven program like Solidworks though, going back to Autocad feels like going back to the Stone Age. Solidworks is probably the most common feature driven design package. This means that you design an object the same way you would manufacture it. Unigraphics does mostly the same things, but is only really used by GM that I know of. My personal recommendation is to learn Autocad and Solidworks.

That being said, I know nothing about TurboCAD.

 

[Adabiviak]

Autocad is what our building designers (I hate to say architects, because the building is basically a big box) used on both of our construction projects, and it's what we use for documentation of our own building changes.