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This is also when Rob Berry started working on the product as a tech writer.
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Later, TurboCAD included native printer drivers for a vast array of dot matrix, bubble jet and early laser printers. Initially, in order to be able to support dot matrix printers, a stand-alone printing/plotting utility, FPlot was sold as an add-on to TurboCAD. Martin also created the first CAD symbols included with the product.
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Martin Sacks, the first US distributor, got Digby Prior, a ton of plotters and printers, and a driver writing utility in the same room in Los Angeles which was a turning point for the product. TurboCAD was of course a DOS product with limited device support, an area where Generic CADD was strong at the time. Support was added for more video cards (EGA, Olivetti, etc.), input devices (Summagraphics digitizer and later, the first Microsoft Mouse).
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This was done under the brand Pink Software and the other three stake holders were John Glennie, Digby Prior and Janine Copeman. South Africans Philip Copeman and Michael Cartwright worked on redesigning the product and introduced it to the United Kingdom market as TurboCAD in late 1986. The release of Generic CADD in the PC market was at that time, the biggest ‘CAD event’ since AutoDesk had reinvented CAD pricing with its initial release in 1981. before TurboCAD, it received much more positive press about its low price (approximately $600 originally) and quickly achieved a large and very loyal customer base. But because Generic CADD launched in the U.S. Both TurboCAD’s and Generic CADD’s marketing objective were the same – create a viable, low-cost competitor to AutoCAD. The timing of the release of TurboCAD was about the same as that of Generic CADD in the United States. The source code could also fit on a single floppy disk along with the 30k required by the “ development environment”: Turbo Pascal 2.0. This first version of TurboCAD fitted on a single 360k floppy so that it could run on the original IBM PC. Initially hardware support was for a very specific device configuration: Hercules monochrome graphics cards, HP7475 plotters and keyboard for data entry.
It was originally developed by Hendrik Vermooten and Hein Oosthuizen. Its original price was 199 Rand or about $100 at that time. TurboCAD was developed in South Africa By Stephen "Yogi" Russell in 1985 and was released to the market there in early 1986.
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TurboCAD Mac Pro contains both 2D and 3D tools, while the standard version is for 2D drafting only. The Mac versions of the software are built on a separate codebase and are not directly comparable with the Windows versions. With the exception of TurboCAD Designer, other TurboCAD releases support both 2D drafting and 3D modelling tools.
For less demanding users, a less expensive TurboCAD Deluxe 2D / 3D version is available, and for users needing only 2D functionality, there is the much less expensive TurboCAD Designer. Additional tools are included in the enhanced 'architectural' or 'mechanical' versions of the software, while a 'platinum' version contains both the architectural and mechanical tools. TurboCAD Pro, the 'professional' edition of the software, contains general drafting tools as well as tools for architectural and mechanical design. TurboCAD is a CAD software application for 2D and 3D design and drafting running on the Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Language = English, German, French, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Czech, Polish, Italian Latest release version = v15 (Windows), v3 (Mac)