| NEW & IMPROVED FEATURES | New/Improved | PLATINUM | PROFESSIONAL | DELUXE | DESIGNER |
| UI and Usability | |||||
| Customize Ribbon Interface - 'Find' control | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatic updating of Xrefs | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Interactive Startup Splash Screen | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Snaps - highlighting hit graphic. | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Block palette - resize block previews | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Mouse wheel support within the Blocks Palette | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Find position of a Command in the UI | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Block palette - find Block by Name | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 2D Drafting and Editing | |||||
| Leader dimension | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Viewport hidden line performance using Cache | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Load/Unload Xr | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Direct Editing of Blocks in Drawing | New | ✔ | ✔ | - | - |
| Select By Block Command | Improved | ✔ | - | - | - |
| 3D Modeling | |||||
| Patterns with Solids | Improved | ✔ | - | - | - |
| 3D Solid and Surface mapping tools | New | ✔ | - | - | - |
| Imprint using Block insertions | Improved | ✔ | - | - | - |
| 3D Rendering | |||||
| Multi-threaded faceting for rendering | Improved | ✔ | - | - | - |
| Visualization | |||||
| Visualize Hidden Line Render Mode | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Visualize Rendering and Lighting | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Visualize Import Lightworks and RedSDK materials | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Visualize Anti-Aliasing | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Visualize Ambient Occlusion | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Visualize Lighting | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Visualize Support images with alpha transparency | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Architecture Tools | |||||
| Railing by Path with 2D Arc | Improved | ✔ | - | - | - |
| Architectural Grid | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Interoperability/Data Sharing | |||||
| Progress meter for Interop Filters | New | ✔ | - | - | - |
| Updating to ODA 21.5 for updated DWG support | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Part Names from Interop | New | ✔ | - | - | - |
| Export VDA file format | New | ✔ | - | - | - |
| Export CATIA file format | New | ✔ | - | - | - |
| Export 3DXML file format | New | ✔ | - | - | - |
| Publish to PDF | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| STL Import Performance Boost | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| SKP filter -updated support for SKP 2021 | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| TurboCAD 2020 New & Improved Features | PLATINUM | PROFESSIONAL | DELUXE | DESIGNER |
| 2D Drafting | ||||
| Drafting Palette Layer Sets | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Drafting Palette Performance Improvements | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| 2D edit mode | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Way to insert a point of intersection for dimensioning | ✔ | |||
| FlatShot PHLV5 | ✔ | |||
| FlatShot tcHidden | ✔ | |||
| Mass Properties | ✔ | |||
| Section Properties | ✔ | |||
| Generate Weight Report | ✔ | |||
| Best fit circle. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Best fit line. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Openings modifier automatic calculation | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Auto numbering feature | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Constraint Animation | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Paper Space Viewport explode improvements | ✔ | |||
| Quick Dimension improvements | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Extents Audit Enhancement | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 3D Modeling | ||||
| Select Feature or Defeature Part | ✔ | |||
| Facet Editor. Copy, Delete faces | ✔ | |||
| Facet Editor enhancement. Work in multiple windows | ✔ | |||
| Advanced Cover/Guides | ✔ | |||
| 3D Print tools Improvements | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Visualization | ||||
| Option to turn on/off assignment of materials to Face with color | ✔ | |||
| Drafting Pallet scale improvement | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Selector tool performance (drag selection) improvement. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Block and Group editing mode indicator bar | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| GDI Redraw speed improvement in case of a lot of small graphics | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Show Block insertion tree | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| UI | ||||
| Ribbon Large/Small icons, available space icon sizing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Command line - 4K monitors and dark theme support | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Text dragger: ability to use degree, plus/minus, diameter signs at text typing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Changing the styles of ribbon icons with a lack of free space | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Repeat Last Command | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Improved 3D Snap | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Data Sharing | ||||
| SketchUp 2020 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| ODA update | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 3MF Textures - Import/Export | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| CATIA V4 | ✔ | |||
| CATIA V5 | ✔ | |||
| 3DExperience (CATIA V6) | ✔ | |||
| Inventor | ✔ | |||
| NX 5 | ✔ | |||
| Parasolid | ✔ | |||
| Pro/E / Creo | ✔ | |||
| Solid Edge | ✔ | |||
| SolidWorks | ✔ | |||
| IFC filter improvement: import/export ppm symbols | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| VDA-FS | ✔ | |||
| DWG/DXF 2020 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Other | ||||
| ACIS update (SAT, SAB, ASAT import/export) | ✔ | |||
| Removal of lines between Floors of multi-story houses | ✔ | |||
| Implement new tcw format tcw 2020 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Implement save as to previous (old ) tcw 2019 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| New DRM Update | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| TurboCAD 2019 New & Improved Features | PLATINUM | PROFESSIONAL | DELUXE | DESIGNER |
| USABILITY & USER INTERFACE | ||||
| Confirm Replace | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Customizable Ribbon Configuration | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Named View Enhancements | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Reset All Button in UI Theme Dialog Box | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Ribbon UI Theme Support and Other Ribbon Enhancements | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 4K Monitor Support | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 2D DRAFTING & EDITING | ||||
| Angular dimension tool improvement | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Construct Similar | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Highlight End Points | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Improved Inspector Bar functionality. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Closed property for Polyline | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| PDF /Insert/Underlay | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Pick Point Hatch Improvement | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Remove Overlapping Entities Tool | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Select by Similar - Select objects with shared or similar properties | ✔ | ✔ | - | - |
| Trace Tools - Trace By Point and Trace By Rectangle incorporated to 64-bit | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| 3D DESIGN & MODELING | ||||
| ACIS® Faceter Surface Tolerance | ✔ | - | - | - |
| Extrude Improvement - Surface extrude for flat 3D polylines or 3D curves | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Fillet Edges (blend) tool improvements | ✔ | - | - | - |
| Flange Sheet improvement | ✔ | - | - | - |
| Unbend Tool improvements | ✔ | - | - | - |
| ARCHITECTURE & CONSTRUCTION | ||||
| "Array tools" improvement for ADT (Architectural Desktop) objects. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| BIM Tool Improvement - BIM palette for show/edit BIM data | ✔ | ✔ | - | - |
| RENDERING & VISUALIZATION | ||||
| LightWorks 9.3 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| RedSDK to Lightworks converter improvements | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| New Sun and Sky shader | ✔ | - | - | - |
| INTEROPERABILTY | ||||
| DWG/DXF filter | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| FBX Filter | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| STL Improvement - 3D Print check | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| TurboCAD 2018 New & Improved Features | New/Improved | PRO PLATINUM | EXPERT | DELUXE | DESIGNER |
| USABILITY & USER INTERFACE | |||||
| Audit System - locate 'bad' or out-of-rage objects based upon user criterion | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Database Tool - Added Update Associations to Database Tables | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | - | - |
| Image Manager - Ability to select multiple files | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Isolate Object(s) - Isolate or Hide multiple objects in a drawing | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Keyboard shortcuts - Create with Ctrl, plus one or more keys | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Ribbon Interface | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Search - for locating UI features in Palettes, Tool bars and Menus | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Selection Info Palette - Extents Size property added | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Tables -Text Rotation now supported in table cells | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | - | - |
| Text - OK and Cancel buttons added to Insert Fraction dialog box | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Zoom - Diagnostic Message appears when using Zoom Commands | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 2D DRAFTING & EDITING | |||||
| Circles and Ellipses; Circular and Elliptical Arcs - now separated into two, separate object types | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | - | - |
| Flatten Tool - for 3D Polylines and Splines to make flat to the Workplane | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Layers - Ability to delete Construction and Constraints layers | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | - | - |
| PDF Underlay - Ability to convert an Underlay into an editable object | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | - | - |
| Pick Point Hatch - Now works with gaps in 2D Objects | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Snap between two points - Snap to the mid-point of any 2 defined points | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Thick Profile - A new convenient way to create 2d profiles (closed objects with area) from polylines and curves. | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Trim by Entity - Use closed 2D objects to trim or cut objects | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 3D DESIGN & MODELING | |||||
| 3D Points Measurement | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Sheet Thicken | Improved | ✔ | - | - | |
| 3D Polylines and Splines - From Local menu converts these 3D entities into 2D objects | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Shelling - Sheet Thicken feature for ACIS® and non-ACIS objects to used to shell bi-directionally | Improved | ✔ | - | - | - |
| ARCHITECTURE & CONSTRUCTION | |||||
| BIM Tool - Edit Property Sets; specify spatial structure elements | Improved | ✔ | - | - | - |
| Walls and Polylines - Relative Angle | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Roof by Walls - Ability to create multiple Roof Objects | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Style Manager - Ability to dynamically preview Components and Materials | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | - | - |
| RENDERING & VISUALIZATION | |||||
| LightWorks - Now integrated into TurboCAD (no longer an optional plug-in); improved Render Styles and Environments | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| RedSDK - v4.3 improved Color Adjustments, Filters and Sketch Rendering; now an Optional Plug-in | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Status Bar - When initiating any Rendering, Memory Usage and Rendering Time is now displayed | New | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| INTEROPERABILTY | |||||
| 3DM - latest OpenNURBS toolkit supported with Rhino 5 files | Improved | ✔ | - | - | - |
| 3DS - Ability to import REDSDK Materials | Improved | ✔ | - | - | - |
| 3MF - Import & Export | New | ✔ | ✔ | - | - |
| IFC - Expanded list of Object types for Import and Export | Improved | ✔ | Import Only | - | - |
| PDF - Ability to Import 2D PDFs as a vector image | New | ✔ | - | - | - |
| STEP - Ability to import Text attributes | Improved | ✔ | - | - | - |
| U3D PDF - Export of Textures and Scene Hierarchies now supported | Improved | ✔ | - | - | - |
| TurboCAD Mark-up - Support for TAP drawings with Geo-Mark | Improved | ✔ | ✔ | - | - |