COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN
- About ZWCAD
- What's New?
- Key Features
- Features
About ZWCAD
ZWCAD is a cost-effective, DWG file format compatible CAD solution for the AEC and MCAD industries. With basic drafting functionalities such as creating and editing 2D geometric objects, dimensioning, 3D solid modelling, plotting and file sharing, ZWCAD also provides innovative, collaborative and customizable features to enhance your efficiency, such as design center, tool palettes and customization via APIs.The unrivalled compatibility and friendly user interface lets users begin working with ZWCAD immediately with little to no training. ZWCAD is popular in over 80 countries with more than 180,000 users, and available in 15 different languages including Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian and Turkish.
What’s New in ZWCAD 2011
Design
Parametric Drawing– Shift the Way You Design
Parametric drawing is a definite breakthrough in how we design, for it allows usto take full control of the size, position, and relationship of every object in the drawing. You don’t need to think much about how to start a drawing, just concern yourself with how you’d like it to end.
ZWCAD 2011 offers you two types of parametric constraints:
Geometric constraints enable you to create relationships between objects, making thembehave as a single whole.Dimensional constraints make it easy to change the sizes of objects by simply adjusting their dimensional values.
The new Parameter Manager allows you to add and edit parameters, which define the functional relationships among dimensional constraints.
Efficiency
More Drawing Tools – Boost Your Efficiency
MLeader, Table,and Field
These three features work together perfectly. You can use MLeader (multileaders) to mark part numbers in drawings, and then use Table to list all of them. Finally, you can add Field to display drawing information so they will update automatically to show the latest information about the drawing.
Solid Profiles
The new Solprof (solid profiling) feature enables you to create profiles of 3D solids with an ease. You can get 2D and 3D profile line, as you prefer. Hidden lines and visible lines can be placed onto different layersautomatically.
PDF Plotter
Newly integrated into ZWCAD 2011 is PDF plotter, which plots drawings to high quality PDF files. The output supports OLE objects, raster images, gradient hatches, and plot stamps. In addition, the PDF file can contain layer information from the drawing - just like what you see in the original. PDF files make it very convenient to share your drawings with customers, without giving them the originals of your design.
Experience
Many More Improvements - Give You a Better User Experience
ESnap Improvements
The speed of entity snap acquisition has been improved through the use of a different structure for the snap mechanism. Smart selection highlightingis now supportedto highlight the object at which you are pointing. The new magnetsnap means that once your cursor moves near a snap marker, it is immediately attracted to the exact snap point.
Dimension Line Breaks
Use any object to break dimension lines automatically, or break the dimension line at any point manually. Despite the gap making the line look broken, the dimension is still a whole. And same command also removes breaks from dimension lines.
Online Help
You are no longer alone with out-of-date help documents. Online help is now accessible to every user, no matter the ZWCAD version being used. And all teaching movies are also directly available to watch online, instead of taking lots of time to download them.
Key Features
- Easy to learn and use
- Powerful drafting tools
- Easy file sharing
- Better APIs
- Affordable price
- Strong investment in product development
- Large customer base
- Free 5-Star service
- Available in 15 languages and localized support in over 80 countries
- FREE full-function 30-day trial
Before Starting: Compatibility Assurance
DWG 2010 Support
ZWCAD drawings are based on the DWG file format so you can open, edit, and save any existing DWG file generated by AutoCAD® from version 2.5 to 2011- without conversion or data loss. ZWCAD also shares the same resource files with mainstream CAD platforms, such as Windows TrueType (.ttf) and AutoCAD font (.shx) files, linetype (.lin) files, hatch pattern (.pat) files, slide (.sld) files, and unit (.unt) files.
Friendly User Interface
ZWCAD has seamless integration with Microsoft® Windows®. Its Windows-style user interface arranges menus, toolbars, the command line, and dialog boxes in a way that is familiar to Windows users. This lets Windows users begin working with ZWCAD immediately.
Start from Scratch: Idea Visualization
Fundamental Drawing and Editing Tools
ZWCAD creates precise 2D and 3D geometric entities, such as lines, polygons,ellipses, cylinders, and spheres. Added to that, ZWCAD providespowerful editing tools, such as for moving, trimming, offsetting, unioning, and shelling drawing objects.
External Reference Support
You can insert entire DWG files as external references, which allows you to collaborate with team members on big projects more efficiently. ZWCAD lets you view drawings produced by others, yet does not increase the size of the drawing by very much.
In-place Editing Tools
What you see is what you get! Edit everything in-place, including xrefs, blocks, mtext, attributes, and tables. Experience the most convenient and efficient way of making and saving modifications.
Hatches and Gradients
Hatching lets you represent areas with specific meanings and special looks. Solid fills, gradient hatches, and predefined patterns are all available to you with ZWCAD.
OLE Support
Insert linked and embedded objects into drawings to take full advantages of data from other applications. You can insert movie clips, spreadsheets, documents, and nearly every other kind of data into drawings.
Further Your Design: Tools Utilization
Design Center
The most convenient way to search, access, and reuse every single CAD resource stored on your computer and other computers through the local network. With the help of Design Center, you can copy dimension styles, blocks, text styles, line types, and even layers from other drawings, and then add them to the current drawing.
Tool Palettes
The Tool Palettesprovide an efficient way to organize, share, and store tools, like blocks, hatch patterns, and even those from third-party developers.
Layer Management
Create hundreds of layers and manage them on demand. By setting layer properties in the Layer PropertiesManager, you can easily control how objects are displayed and plotted. Layers let you reduce the visual complexity of drawings, thereby clarifying their structure.
Dynamic Prompt
Dynamic prompts are designed to display tooltips that report useful information near the cursor. Both new users and experienced users will find it useful, because it reduces the time on remembering and inputting commands.
Setting Up Viewports
When you create multiple viewports both in model space and paper space, you can effortlessly generate different 2D and 3D views of your drawings.
DrawingCompare
Drawingcompare is a powerful and unique feature provided by ZWCAD. By comparing two similar-looking drawings, you can see every single difference between them, because it takes just seconds for ZWCAD to present the changes in different colors. You can adjust the settings of comparingas you like, such as the colors and filters it uses.
Multiple Document and Tab Environment
You will work more efficiently when employing with ZWCAD’s Multiple Document Environment, which allows you to open up to 255 files at once. In addition, ZWCAD provides a Multiple Document Tab mode, which lets you use tabs to switch quickly among open documents.
Share It Out: Work Collaboration
Plotting and Batch Plotting
You can plot your current openeddrawing to file or to paper using multiple options to fine-tune the result, such as paper size, plot scale, plot styles, and plotstamps. You can also plot an entire list of PLT files in a single session, and then save the list for reuse at another time.
Publishing and Exporting
With the help of ZWCAD’s publishing and exporting functions, you can easily publish your drawings to DWF format, and export them to many other vector and raster formats, including BMP, WMF, EMF, SVG, EPS, PDF, and SAT. You will find these useful for placing copies of drawings in other applications.
Realistic Renderings
Your 3D models can be rendered using a rich variety of materials and multiple light sources, generating high-quality, photorealistic images.
eTransmit
eTransmit improves collaboration between you and your clients. With a simple click, it collects all related drawings and support files into one package. The package includes drawings, images, external references, and fonts, which can be emailed or burned to a CD for distribution.
Integrated JPEG, PNG and PDF Plotter
ZWCAD offers optimized JPEG and PNG plotter drivers, together with a brand new PDF plotter driver. These allow you to output your drawings easily as high quality JPEG or PNG images, as well as PDF documents complete with layers from the original CAD drawing.
Make It Your Own: Powerful Customization
Customizing the Interface
ZWCAD makes it easy for you to customize the user interface. You can modify menus, toolbars, keyboard shortcuts, and command aliases to meet your particular needs and corporate standards. You can save these settings to MNU, MNS, and PGP files, and then import them in any otherinstallations of ZWCAD.
Programming with ZWCAD
ZWCAD provides you with several convenient and powerful application programming interfaces (APIs) at no extra charge. These include LISP (similar to AutoLISP), VBA (available in Professional edition only), SDS (similar to ADS), and ZRX (ZWCAD Runtime Extension, which is similar to ARX). With these APIs, you can develop specialized design and drafting applications that fit your needs perfectly, as well as migrating older programs to the ZWCAD platform.
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