The package comes with thousands of 2D symbols, but make sure you load the British symbols or else you will be wondering why all of the symbols are only for AEC and electronic design. Mechanical engineers will also enjoy a small but powerful set of parametric fasteners. The packaged symbols are stored in files that are well organized, and adding one to a drawing is just a simple click and drag, as shown in Figure 2. Blocks are similar to symbols, but they take up only one instance in the CAD database and update when the original is edited. Users can also assign tags to blocks or symbols to assist with tracking information, such as a Bill of Materials.
Any item can contain a hyperlink to point the user to another file or data on a Web site.
For architects, TurboCAD offers a wall tool that allows for different crosshatching patterns to fill the wall. Setting the wall's thickness or end caps isn't as obvious as it could be, and while a symbol library of doors and windows exists, they do not automatically cut or cover the wall as in other programs. Walls that do touch each other are automatically cleaned up. All of the standard annotation tools are included in TurboCAD Professional V6. Figure 3 shows some of the dimension options, including tolerances, prefixes and suffixes.