One of the larger areas where CAD software is employed is within the Architectural industry. Using TurboCAD to create the many drawings and illustrations that are often required for projects will enable the user to produce top notch work in a timely fashion. TurboCAD created drawings and renders will undoubtedly impress clients, contractors and building authorities alike and the user will come away feeling that the time spent on learning to use TurboCAD was time well spent.

The Architectural Presentation Tutorial is a fully illustrated tutorial that leads the beginner through every keystroke necessary to transform IMSI Design's 2D Marion floor plan into the fully detailed 3D model presented on the cover of this tutorial.

Within this tutorial the reader will be lead through every keystroke to produce the back yard design that is illustrated on the cover of the tutorial. The reader will learn how to create almost all the elements used within the design using 2D profiles and 3D primitive shapes. The reader will learn how to insert free 3D plants found on the internet and a 3D bench created and supplied by the author. The reader will learn how to insert standard lighting and how to use a render scene environment and render scene luminance. The reader will learn how to render their drawing and save it in a high resolution image format. The reader will also learn how to utilize paper space where a final plan layout will be created utilizing viewports and annotations.

One of the fundamental concepts in TurboCAD, when it comes to drawing in 3D, is the use and understanding of workplanes. Most new users are overwhelmed by the concept of workplanes but once the user puzzles out what workplanes are all about they quickly realize that they were never really all that complex after all. Each workplane tool, complete with a user-friendly explanation and example will be illustrated within the tutorial and this will be done by having the reader work through examples keystroke by keystroke. By the time the reader reaches the end of the tutorial any confusion will have lessened significantly.