TC2D1 Basic TurboCAD for 2D Drafting – 2 days
Some Windows basics. TurboCAD Display controls. Inspector & Coordinates panels usage. Grid. Snaps, Ortho. Drawing lines, polylines, circles, arcs, ellipses, curves, text. Selecting objects. Altering existing objects. Tools on the edit & modify menus. Layers and Properties. Use of colour and lineweight. Views. Modelspace and Paperspace. Printing from Paperspace, including PDF generation. Dimensioning. Hatching. Making a Template drawing. Palettes, Groups, Blocks & Symbols. Making & using symbol libraries. Using Symbol Libraries provided with TurboCAD.
This module is basic to all others and is not specific to any field of work. Some examples and exercises will be on mechanical engineering topics and others on building design. The next module, TC2D2, is also generic but covers additional topics not essential to start with.
TC2D2 More 2D Drafting using TurboCAD – 1 day
(Prerequisite: TC2D1). Tables. Custom Data & Reports, Database Linkage. Block Attributes. Importing spreadsheet data into a drawing. Hyperlinks. External references. Parametric Parts (into). Inserting & manipulating raster images. Using scanned drawings with CAD tools. Exchanging drawing data with AutoCAD users. Using TurboCAD to make illustrations in Word or other documents, or for use in illustration software such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop etc. Using Constraint tools.
This module continues on from TC2D1 with additional drafting tools and techniques. This course could be taken on its own at a later date to TC2D1 after gaining familiarity with TurboCAD, but it is normally offered on the day following TC2D1 so that it can form a 3-day course if preferred. Some of these topics are only found in TurboCAD Professional.
TC3DM 3D Mechanical parts design with TurboCAD - 2 days
(Prerequisite: TC2D1) This module is specific to designing mechanical parts and using TurboCAD Pro and its optional Mechanical Pack add-on. It includes the surface-modelling facilities only very briefly as they are of limited usefulness. This course concentrates on the solid modelling tools of TurboCAD-Pro and the extra tools in the Mechanical Pack. Those are also found in the TurboCAD Pro Platinum Edition.
Topics: Setting up for 3D work. Using view controls to move around the model. 2D & 3D object selection tools. Rotating and moving 3D objects. 3D primitives, 3D solids from extruded, revolved and swept 2D profiles, Lofting, Shelling. Combining modelled objects to make complex solids. Sheet metal bending, Flanges,.Hole boring, Bosses, Tube bending, Facet offset, Pattern constraints. Assembling 3D objects. Rendering, surface texture and image mapping. Use of Paperspace for making 3D views on paper prints or dimensioned orthographic views.
This course covers the basics of 3D modelling and setting up for it, and assumes familiarity with the basic skills and 2D methods covered in TC2D1. It is essential that participants be familiar with those 2D techniques, especially the use of Paperspace for assembling sheets for printing as there will not be time to cover that assumed prior knowledge.
TC3DA 3D Building design using TurboCAD - 2 days
(Prerequisite: TC2D1) Designing a house in 3D using the special building design tools in TurboCAD-Pro and the Architectural Pack (also found in TurboCAD Pro Platimum Edition). How to design the house in 3D and generate 2D working drawings from the model - plans, sections, elevations, pictorial views. Rendering the 3D model realistically. Using walk-through visualisation. Terrain modelling. Site plans. Quantities extraction.
This module assumes familiarity with the basic TurboCAD skills and 2D techniques covered in TC2D1. There is no need to be already familiar with the general 3D modelling tools of TurboCAD as they are mainly oriented to mechanical design and the needed skills such as workplane, 3D-selector usage and the usage of layers in 3D design, are covered in this course.
