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Paul The CAD
Hi all,
As you may have noticed we had some problems with the website over the past couple of weeks but it is now back up and running and better than ever. Continue to post to me!
Paul The CAD
Hi,
After kicking around the idea for a TurboCAD blog for a year or so, I’ve finally, with a lot of help from colleagues, got it off the ground. The nuts and bolts of work tend to leave no time to do the interesting stuff, but we’re here now and I hope that the site will be a resource that will not only inform, but be a place where TurboCAD users can share their ideas, expertise or maybe just show off their work.
Over the next few months it will grow to include a gallery of drawings, tips, video tutorials, lists of shows and anything that I think fits. There will be a growing list of links to other sites that I think will be of interest to us all and I’m very open to suggestions.
Through my travels doing shows and running training days I’ve met CAD users, both 2D and 3D working in a wide variety of fields, sometimes using a combination of design software in interesting and sometimes unusual combinations. I’m sure that many would be delighted in sharing their experiences and experiments.
The site is only just starting, but my hope is that it will constantly evolve and develop into a useful forum for us all, but this will mean some of you out there getting involved, so let me know of your projects, your difficulties, your successes and we’ll see where it leads.
Paul The CAD
Over the next few months it will grow to include a gallery of drawings, tips, video tutorials, lists of shows and anything that I think fits. There will be a growing list of links to other sites that I think will be of interest to us all and I’m very open to suggestions.
Through my travels doing shows and running training days I’ve met CAD users, both 2D and 3D working in a wide variety of fields, sometimes using a combination of design software in interesting and sometimes unusual combinations. I’m sure that many would be delighted in sharing their experiences and experiments.
The site is only just starting, but my hope is that it will constantly evolve and develop into a useful forum for us all, but this will mean some of you out there getting involved, so let me know of your projects, your difficulties, your successes and we’ll see where it leads.
Paul The CAD
Dear Paul,
I am an Engineering Manager at SIS LIVE (formally BBC Outside Broadcasts). One project I’m in charge of is the BBC’s Golf output from a technical point of view. I’m currently planning next years Open Championship from Turnberry. The R&A (Royal & Ancient Golf Club) produce CAD drawings of the courses in .dwg format and I have to use these to add our camera towers, cable runs & most of all, the parking plan for the TV compound which has over 150 vehicles & cabins, tracks, toilets etc
I can not use Autocad so I’m at a huge disadvantage, I’m very computer literate using both Mac & PC platforms, For this years Open at Birkdale I had to produce the plan using a Mac specific non .dwg package called Macdraft so I couldn’t import from Autocad nor export to .dwg for the R&A.
I was just about to go on a basic Autocad course at my local college when a colleague suggested I look at Turbocad, which is available on both platforms. I think this will do the trick superbly, but I really do need some urgent training on it before I start work on next years golf planning.
Can you help me in anyway, by suggesting books or better still a training course?
I do you hope you can help.
Best Regards,
Alan Jessop
Engineering Manager
SIS LIVE
Paul,
I know you work closely with the IMSI guys in the UK.
Can you tell me what future developments there are for TurboCAD ?
Excellent blog Keep up the good work !
Gareth
TurboCAD Software Sales
SaverSoftware.com
Alan
TurboCAD if perfect for such tasks because it’s so much easier to use than AutoCAD and will do everything that you require of it. We run training courses in Winchester two or three times a month, some general and others with a focus on a particular discipline.
Anyone wanting details of the courses, just give me a call on 01962 835 081
Paul
Gareth,
Have no information concerning the next release yet. IMSI will probably start sending me lists of improvements at the start of the year. AS soon as I start getting any facts I’ll start publishing them here.
Paul
Paul,
Thanks for all your help and advice at the woodworking show a few weeks back, am getting on reasonably well with my drawings, but think I’ll come on one of your courses when I can find some time. You mentioned to me at the show that you could import your own photographs to use as backgrounds. I have tried this using instructions from the manual, but just can’t get it to work –any advice?
Cris Glover
Cris,
Must admit that the manual is not as clear as it could be here, I’ve had this question before. If you go to http://www.turbocad.co.uk and follow the lead to training and tutorials, towards the bottom right hand side of the page you will find a link to my training notes. On page 30 you’ll find the instrucions you need. It only tales a couple of minutes.
Paul