This examination will test the working knowledge of a TurboCAD user at a 2D level. Purchase this product and submit your answers via e-mail at the end of the test.
TurboCAD concepts that are covered in the test
This examination will test the working knowledge of a TurboCAD user at a 2D level. The test directly or indirectly tests the following TurboCAD concepts:
• Accurate Measurement of lengths and angles • Units and Scaling • Functional knowledge of most of the 2D drawing tools including lines, arcs and splines • Paper Space and Model Space • Named Views and Viewports • Page Setup options and scale • How to change properties • Layers • Modification tools • Groups, Blocks and Regions • Copy commands • Text
Take the test now. Reserve about an hour of your time to be able to answer the 20 questions. For a small fee you can submit your answers for grading. If you score 75% or higher you will receive an electronic Certificate of Competence showing your name and grade.
This set of training movies describes how to print properly in TurboCAD. The product contains a PDF printer driver with detailed step-by-step movies teaching you to create large-format PDF files for easy reproduction at your local printing company.
Movies one through thirteen teach a user how to correctly use the TurboCAD tools such as Model Space and Paper Space with Viewports. The aim of the course is to enable the user to create large-format printouts by taking a professional PDF file to the local print shop. Each of these movies includes full captioning which can easily be used later as a printable reference.
Movies fourteen through twenty two are related to the functionality of the Solid PDF Creator Plus program.You will learn how to easily create PDF files from any of your Windows applications.Further you will enjoy the ability to create Secure or PDF-A (archive) files with the ability to rotate, join and delete pages between PDF files, plus much more!
Movies twenty three through thirty one originally shipped as the CADCourse Print Solution.These movies were recorded in the TurboCAD version 10 program and even though these files are out of date (and do not use the same PDF driver) they still offer valuable insight into the functionality of TurboCAD and PDF files.
So pick up this valuable set of movies and extremely powerful PDF creation program now and never have trouble printing in TurboCAD again!
Table of Contents
Movie 01 – Introductions and Overview What is PDF?
Movie 02 – World and Page Setup CADCourse Interface, Paper Space vs. Model Space, Page Setup Movie 03 – Named Views and Viewports Layout and Margins, Creating Named Views, Inserting Viewports in Paper Space, Scaling Viewports and Viewport Properties, Selecting Viewports Movie 04 – Positioning and Scaling Viewports What is Scale?, Architectural vs. Metric Scales, Changing a Viewports Scale, Entering a Scale in a Title Block, Using the Stretch Tool to Modify the Title Block, Positioning the Viewport within a Title Block Movie 05 – Multiple Shapes and Scales of Viewports Multiple Scales on one page, Creating Shaped Viewports Movie 06 – Polygonal Viewports
Movie 07 – Layers and Viewports Layers, Adding Paper Spaces Movie 08 – Dimensions and Title Blocks Using Blocks in Title Blocks, Dimensioning in Viewports Movie 09 – Using Layers in Viewports for 3D Objects Creating a 3D Box, Dimensioning 3D Objects in a viewport, Creating Top, Left, Front and Isometric Views, Duplicating Viewports, Using Layers in Viewports Movie 10 – Rendering Viewports Options Rendering Viewports, Rendering Options in Viewports, Floating Viewports Movie 11 – Scaling the Drawing Page Scaling without Viewports, Choosing a Standard Scale, Title Blocks on Scaled Pages Movie 12 – Creating the PDF File Choosing the ARCH Template, Creating a Drawing, Inserting the Viewport and Setting Page Size, Choosing the PDF Printer Driver, Choosing a Scale, Printing to File Movie 13 – Printing Colors in Black Movie 14 – Installing and Registering Solid PDF Creator Plus Downloading from the Web, Installing the Software, Support Services, Registering the Software, Receiving an Unlock code via the Web Movie 15 – Introductions and Overview Introductions, Launching the Software, Overview of the program, PDF Archive Format, Deleting pages from a PDF, Saving PDF files Movie 16 – Manipulating PDF Files Rotating Pages, Extracting Pages, Reordering Pages Movie 17 – Passwords and Permissions Document Properties, Password Permissions Movie 18 – Watermarks Applying Watermarks, Watermarks Options Movie 19 – Toolbars Open PDFs, Undo Redo, Multiple Windows/Split screen, Dragging and Dropping between Windows Movie 20 – Toolbars Continued Search, Insert Pages, Copy and Paste, Selecting multiple pages, Zooming In and Out, Zooming to Fit and 1:1, Two Page View, Rotate Pages Movie 21 – PDF Printer Properties Target Folder, PDF A Compliance, Document Information, Security Settings, Page Setup, Custom Pages Sizes, Default View Settings, Print Quality, Color and Grayscale Settings, Embedding Fonts Movie 22 – Creating PDFs from Applications or Files Drag and Drop, Print to PDF driver, Conclusions, Bonus Movies Movie 23 – History of PDF Movie 24 – Paper Space and Scale Movie 25 – Model Space and Viewports Movie 26 – 3D Views in Paper Space Movie 27 – Title Blocks Movie 28 – Layers in viewports Movie 29 – Layer sets in viewports Movie 30 – Multiple pages Movie 31 – Printer Scaling
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BONUS – CAD Fundamentals 2D Training for TurboCAD – A $50 Value!
It’s fun and easy to learn the TurboCAD basics with special interactive tutorials and over 200 video lessons. (This bonus training software is included on the TurboCAD Deluxe DVD and will not be available with the download option. It is also not included with upgrades.)
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Many CADCourse customer’s request the ability to change the TurboCAD interface to match that of our training movies. The following movie is applicable for all versions of TurboCAD even the more recent version 16 which contains an interface similar to that found in version 14. Earlier versions of TurboCAD such as 11 or 12 need to download specific configuration files that can be found at about 6 minutes into the movie. You will be able to click a link in the movie to download the file and the movie wil explained how to copy it to the correct location.
