1. New "Background Render" and rendering speed
2. Using your mouse wheel when working in Quality Render
3. Delete a facet without reconstructing the object
4. How to enable the new SAT healing feature
5. Deformable Modeling - Pressure Load adjustments
6. New view of the Grid using Camera Perspective
7. Copying information from the NEW Selection Info - Properties palette
8. New Convert to curve also works on 2D objects that are converted into 3D by entering a thickness
9. Improved view of Symbols Thumbnails, use the New TCExplorer Palette instead of the Symbols Palette
10. Editing the TurboCAD 10 "TCW10_xml.ini" file like the TurboCAD 9 "tcw90.ini" file

Make sure to use "Background Rendering" when working with rendered objects.
Menu: Options / Desktop, Background Render: With this option, TurboCAD tools work faster in Render mode; rendering will "interfere" less with other tools. This setting can only be applied when working with one window.

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If your mouse is equipped with a wheel or roller, you can greatly speed up the examination of rendered objects. While in Quality Render mode, simply press and hold the mouse wheel down. The rendering will quickly switch to Draft Mode to speed the Examine function and switch back to Quality render mode when the mouse wheel is released.

SHIFT + Mouse Wheel = Rotate
CTRL  + Mouse Wheel = Zoom
CTRL  + SHIFT + Mouse Wheel = Pan

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If you want to delete a facet without reconstructing the object, you can convert the solid to a surface.
Menu: Format / Create Surface / From Solid

• Start by selecting one or more solids.
• Activate the Surface from Solid function, and the solid is hollowed out. Each of its facets is now a surface. To more easily see the results, activate Facet Edit from the Edit Menu and select one of the vertical faces.
• Delete the face (using the Del key), and view the model in render mode to see the missing facet.

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Menu: Options / General / Healing of SAT insertions.
The Healing Component fixes solid models, usually imported from other modeling systems into ACIS in which tolerance problems affect how ACIS interprets the model. Healing is designed to detect and correct accuracy problems in the geometry of an ACIS model.

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Pressure Load
Menu: Edit / Facet Deform / Pressure Load

This new feature enables you to deform a face or surface by applying a pressure over the entire face. The pressure is always normal to the face. The result is a NURBS surface or solid.

Stretch: A factor controlling elasticity - the resistance of the face to stretching. The higher the value the higher the resistance, resulting in less deformation.
Bend: A factor controlling the resistance of the face to bending (flexure) and torsion. Higher values prevent sharp changes to the face.
Resolution: The number of internal grids (knots) used to control the deformation. The higher the value, the greater the influence of Bend and Stretch factors. Lower values, however, yield faster results.
Isolines: Number of display lines. While changing the number of display lines does not always affect the results, but is used to better visualize the deformed face. Also, increasing the number of lines may give more predictability to how the deformation behaves in that the additional isolines give more degrees of freedom to how the deformation can done on the spline surface.
Gain: The pressure value. A gain of 1,000 on a 10 x 10 face will have more of an effect than the same gain on a 100 x 100 face. Negative values can be used.

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Camera Properties
Menu: View / Camera / Properties
Menu: Workspace / Grid / Display (ALT+G)

Using a grid with perspective can be used to enhance the ability to visually position and locate objects.

Perspective View: The visual effect of a perspective projection is similar to that of photographic systems and of the human visual system. The size of the perspective projection of an object varies inversely with the distance of that object from the center of projection.

Grid On

Grid Off

Note: When using Perspective View, objects cannot be located or moved beyond the horizon.
Menu: Workspace / Display Horizon to display the horizon, in order to better orient yourself to the space.

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Menu: View / Selection Info After selecting this option from the View menu, the Section Info palette will appear on the right sight of the drawing screen. Select the information in the upper, white area of the palette, making sure that any hierarchically displayed information is fully displayed. Use the “Copy” icon in the upper menu panel then switch to the Internet pallet. Information is displayed in cells, select the cells and right click "copy" the information in clipboard will paste into Excel sheet or a neat column in note pad.

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Convert to Curve
Available in TurboCAD Professional only

Menu:Format / Convert to Curve
Converts a 2D object into a Bezier curve. Any single-line 2D object can be converted. Objects like double lines, dimensions, and text must be exploded first before converting.
Convert to curve also works on 2D objects that are converted into 3D by entering a thickness in the 3D page of the Properties.

Sharp corners will remain sharp when two adjacent line segments cannot be approximated by an arc within the specified tolerance. This could happen when the vertex is too “sharp” which is defined by vertex angle, line lengths, and tolerance

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Menu:View / TCExplorer palette

Select the Symbols Libraries to see symbol thumbnails and a description

Palette Options, Thumbnails

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Use the file IMSI / TCWP100 / Programs / EditIniVal.exe file
Drawing Sheet Size "You'll have to enter the new size in the Drawing Sheet Size section of the Print|Page Setup dialog. You can do this for every drawing or create a Template with the size"
Paper Sizes "The EditiniVAL.exe DOES WORK at least in the "Paper_Table". I Changed the first "ISO" paper size to: "ARCH D size (24 in x 36 in)" (You have to use the word "in" and the parenthesis) save the file, Fired up TurboCAD and my paper size was there"
Line Styles "can be added with "Add to Defaults" in the Line Styles dialog"
Add colors "You can add colors ……slowly… one-at-a-time, through Program Setup|Color Palette. Enter a "Color name:" and then under "New", the RGB numbers. They'll be added to the TCW10_XML.ini file"

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