Advanced Training for Mechanical Design with TurboCAD Pro

The Mechanical Tutorial Bundle for TurboCAD Pro provides four complete training tutorials from TurboCAD expert Don Cheke of Textual Creations including the Industrial Shock Absorber tutorial, Electric Motor tutorial, Drawing Template tutorial, and Workplanes tutorial. Follow his instructions to master the use of TurboCAD Pro, including some of the more advanced mechanical design tools, while creating some amazing designs. These are downloadable tutorials, delivered on PDF, perfect for anyone looking to start their training immediately.

Industrial Shock Absorber Tutorial

Ever since the advent of the Drafting Palette the job of drafting has become so much more efficient and more pleasing. Within this tutorial the reader will be led through each keystroke to produce all components of the industrial shock that is illustrated on the cover of the tutorial. The reader will learn how to set up their drawing, insert standard lighting and utilize render scene luminance. You will learn how to establish a render scene environment, render the drawing, and save it in a high resolution image format. The user will also learn how to use paper space by first creating a title block and then utilizing viewports and Drafting Palette objects to create a four page presentation.

Electric Motor Tutorial
What better way to explore TurboCAD than by creating a cool model of an electric motor. It has many interesting parts that require some forethought before construction, but are easily managed within TurboCAD. Within this tutorial the reader will be led to produce all components of the electric motor illustrated on the cover of the tutorial (except the centrifugal switch and some screws which are supplied to save on tutorial time). The reader will learn how to set up their drawing, insert standard lighting, and utilize render scene luminance. You will learn how to establish a render scene environment, render the drawing, and save it in a high resolution image format. The user will learn how to create an exploded view of the electric motor and use paper space to create a single page paper presentation with a saved render and an inserted viewport.

Drawing Templates
One of the fundamental tenets of any CAD package is to never draw the same thing twice. This not only includes using blocks and symbols while drawing but also devising ways to approach the more mundane things such as repeating text and establishing tool properties or styles. One way to address much of this is to create a drawing template where many properties have been pre-established and which includes at least one paper space page that has a reusable title block. The Drawing Templates Tutorial leads the reader through each keystroke to produce a reusable TurboCAD template and the title block that is illustrated on the cover of the tutorial. The reader will find much discussion within the pages of this tutorial that will hopefully provide good insight into choices that are made.

Understanding Workplanes

One of the fundamental concepts of drawing in 3D is the use and understanding of workplanes. Most new users are initially overwhelmed by this concept, but once the user puzzles out what workplanes are all about they quickly realize that they weren't that complex after all. This tutorial illustrates each workplane tool with a user-friendly explanation for the reader to refer to as you work through various exercises.

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It is advised that those following the Industrial Shock Absorber and Electric Motor tutorials have TurboCAD Pro Platinum 17.2. Although users of different versions are welcome to try the tutorials, some version differences will be experienced. For the most part these differences are minor and should not keep the user from completing the tutorial