Powering Communication with Collaboration Features

Publishing and Plotting

Publish drawing sheets as DWF files or to plotting devices with different plot styles. Alternatively, you can plot drawings to a variety of file formats, including EPS.

Plotting

Improved Layouts

In paper space, the white layout is now provided as the default. You can, however, specify any background color you like.

Improved Layouts

Realistic Renderings

3D models can be rendered using a variety of materials and multiple light source to generate high-quality, photorealistic images.

Realistic Renderings

eTransmit

eTransmit improves collaboration between clients by collecting all related drawing and support files in a single package. The package can include drawings, images, external references, and fonts.

eTransmit

Boosting Productivity with Management Features

Design Center

Design Center allows you to access any CAD resource stored on your computer or on the local network. You can apply content to the current drawing copied from dimension styles, blocks, text styles, line types and layers found in other drawings.

Design Center & Tool Palettes

Dynamic Prompt

Dynamic prompts display tooltips that report useful information near the cursor. The data is dynamically updated as the cursor moves, which helps you keep your focus in the drafting area.

Dynamic Prompt

AutoTrack

AutoTrack combines polar tracking and object snap tracking so that you can easily draw objects at specific angles or in exact relationship to other objects. ZWCAD automatically generates alignment paths to let you see geometric relationships. This makes tasks easier to accomplish, and designs more precise.

AutoTrack

Aerial View

Pan and zoom large drawings quickly with the miniature aerial view window that displays the entire drawing at all times.

Aerial View

Multiple Document and Tab Environments

You work more efficiently with ZWCAD’s Multiple Document Environment (MDE), which allows you to open up to 255 files in a single session. In addition, ZWCAD provides a Multiple Document Tab (MDT) mode, which lets you quickly select tabs to access multiple open documents.

Multiple Document and Tab Environments

Layers and Properties

Create layers and manage layer properties easily and efficiently. Control how objects are displayed and plotted. Use layers to reduce the visual complexity of drawings, and improve display performance.

Layers and Properties

Multiple Redo and Undo Facility

Backtrack your recent actions more conveniently and efficiently. The undo/redo list allows you undo/redo several actions at once or just a single action at once.

Multiple Redo and Undo Facility

Quick Dimension

Create and edit a series of dimensionsquickly, including baselines and continued dimensions, radius and diameter dimensions, and ordinate dimensions. ZWCAD’s quick dimension mode handles a variety of object types.

  Quick Dimension

Quick Calculator

The built-in calculator features functions specific to CAD, such as geometric calculations, a units conversion area, and user-defined variables, in addition to standard mathematical functions.

Quick Calculator

Visualizing Ideas Through Drafting and Detailing

Fundamental Drawing Tools

Create precise 2D and 3D geometry entities, such as lines, polygons, ellipses, cylinders, and spheres

Fundamental Drawing Tools

Support for External References

Insert entire DWG files as external references. This lets everyone on your team collaborate on big designs, yet won’t increase the drawing file size by much.

Support for External References

Raster Image

Insert raster images in drawings to better show off your designs, or to trace over old paper drawings. Various kinds of images can be attached, including those in BMP, TIF, GIF, JPG, PNG, PCX, or TGA format. Once attached, the images can be varied in their brightness, contrast, and fading. In addition, drawings can be exported to a variety of raster formats for use in desktop publishing and Web sites.

Raster Image

In-Place MTEXT Editor

ZWCAD 2010’s newly-developed In-Place MTEXT Editor will help you focus on your design and make your work experience more efficient with new and improved functions for your convenience, such as, a new text formatting toolbar, a new dialog box for formatting paragraphs, and a new display options menu.Thus, you can create and edit text objects freely as in other professional word processing software.

In-Place MTEXT Editor

Hatches, Fills, and Gradients

Hatch areas to define specific meanings. You can use solid fills, gradient fills, or predefined fill patterns. ZWCAD supports .pat pattern files from mainstream CAD programs.

Gradient Hatch

Multiple Grips Editing

Multiple grips editing enables you to work with more than one grip at a time. This lets you stretch and move objects through multiple grips, keeping the geometry properly constrained between objects.

Multiple Grips Editing

Modify References and Attributes

In-place reference editing allows you to modify externally referenced drawings and to redefine block definitions, without needing to open external DWG files.

Modify References and Attributes

Ensuring Compatibility with Mainstream CAD & OS

DWG support

ZWCAD’s native file format is DWG, so it can open, edit, and save any existing DWG file generated by AutoCAD^® from version 2.5 to 2009 without conversion or data loss.

Commands and Aliases

ZWCAD’s commands and aliases are also compatible with AutoCAD. ZWCAD can export and import the MNU, MNS, and PGP files that define menus, toolbars, and aliases customized in AutoCAD.

Friendly User Interface

ZWCAD has seamless Microsoft Windows integration. It arranges menus, toolbars, the command line, the drawing area, the properties palette, and dialog boxes in a style that conforms to the expectations of users. This lets AutoCAD- trained users begin working with ZWCAD immediately.

                                                     Friendly User Interface