It was just a few days before Christmas when marketing staff from IMSI came to visit the office of upFront.eZine located north of the American-Canadian border. The occasion was to introduce TurboCAD v7 to me, which has been shipping as an update to existing customers since November, and began selling to new customers this month. TurboCAD is a product whose image was maligned by hyper-marketing, and is now taking the long road back to respectability. The legacy is too bad, since TurboCAD is a pretty good product. Them's brave fighting words, also spoken by other CAD vendors in years past who subsequently stumbled over Autodesk's tracks.
Solids modeling now does thin wall shelling.
2D Boolean regions can be edited directly. Format painter can be used on 3D objects. Text along a curve. Move between windows without having to select them. The first one, which Mr Berry demostrated, is an animation plug-in.