Short answer: No, the course is not part of the software. It is separate purchased tutorial from Don Cheke of Textual Creations and was written for TurboCAD pro Platinum users only.
You can purchase "Training Bundles" from IMSI design (turbocad.com) and they are fairly good. But this tutorial is seriously advanced.
Bob, I would like to be more specific on this. Ok, I am following along a 380 page written tutorial that literally instructs you step by step and click by click with images, screen shots of how to do every move and action. You might think that 380 pages is long, but in reality it is not.
The tutorial was developed and written by
Don Cheke of www.textualcreations.ca. He also has some online videos of things you can follow along. This particular tutorial (if I remember was about $44) and is well worth it. About the time you finish you will have learned much more than what is basically offered from IMSI TurboCAD manual. Even though I have learned a lot from the manual, this guy is a professional and instructs on the way the program should be operated. So, yes, the tutorial is written for TurboCAD Pro specific. Don Cheke starts out every one of this tutorials of how to set up your software interface configuration.
All CAD has a learning curve. Alot of people have complained about TC being difficult. They stay with Autocad or other products. However, when people take the time to learn TC, then when they try to go back to AutoCAD, they usually say that AutoCAD is too long of a process to do the same thing in TC. In other words, TC shortens the process by offering many tools. I realize that AutoCAD is basically the industry accepted standard, but I do not have the resources (money) for it and all the plug ins. Now, I have learned that AutoDesk is now subscription based only.
The MAIN things between the lesser expensive Deluxe version at $129 and the Pro Platinum at $1400 is that the Pro P has 3D tools that perform advanced manipulation of objects. Like 3D slice, 3D polylines, 3D fillets, 3D Chamfers, Lofting (from one shape to another shape). Shelling out a solid object. 3D sweeps of 2D objects. and the list goes on of things that I haven't even touched the surface on.
I was very fortunate that my agency purchased TC pro Platinum for me to use at my office on a daily basis. I also might add the the only Add-On that I purchased was the "Lightworks" rendering engine, but it was only $69 if I remember.
I hope this answers your questions.