INTEGRATED CAD · CAE · CAM · PDM

Connected Engineering.
Built for Machinery.

Move from machine concept to production in ZW3D, with design, validation, manufacturing, and engineering data working in one connected environment.

WHY ZW3D

One engineering
environment.
Four business advantages.

Machinery teams need more than isolated modeling tools. ZW3D connects the decisions, deliverables, and know-how that turn engineering intent into production-ready work.

Engineer Machinery Faster

Move from concept to complete machines with professional part, assembly, drawing, validation, and manufacturing tools.

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Connect Design to Production

Keep downstream drawings, simulation, CAM, and product data aligned as designs evolve.

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Keep Engineering Knowledge Working

Reuse models, methods, standards, and team experience instead of rebuilding proven work.

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Stay in Control

Choose licensing, deployment, hardware, and adoption paths that fit your operation.

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ZW3D CAPABILITIES

Professional Tools Across the Machinery Engineering Workflow

Concrete capability for every major stage—connected by shared geometry and engineering intent.

Build Complex Parts with Control and Speed
With Hybrid Modeling, ZW3D part design capabilities let you create and modify complex parts with precision and speed, enhanced by professional modules for advanced design tasks.
Professional and accurate modeling for part design

Robust modeling capabilities driven by 3D Geometric Modeling Overdrive™ Kernel.

A powerful blend of parametric and direct modeling, perfect for both detailed, rule-driven designs and fast, intuitive adjustments.

• Parametric Modeling - Create and modify complex models based on predefined relationships and constraints.
• Direct Editing - Make quick, on-the-spot changes free from parametric constraints.
• Surface Modeling - Create smooth surfaces with precision and ease, with a rich set of surface creation and editing methods.
Tailored modules for advanced scenarios
• Advanced Tools - Include sheet metal, structural design, and specialized modules like Harness, ECAD/MCAD collaboration, and Piping.
Create and Manage Design Variations with Ease
• Design Configuration - Create and manage multiple design variations within a single file by controlling dimensions, features, and parameters.
Communicate complex design with simplicity
• Web-Based Viewing - Easily export to HTML for quick sharing and seamless access to detailed models in a standard web browser.
Keep Large Machinery Assemblies Responsive
ZW3D enables users to effortlessly manage complex assemblies, offering smart tools that accelerate design, ensure precise integration, and enhance communication with intuitive animations for clearer, more effective presentations.
Extremely smooth performance to handle complex assemblies
• Large Assembly Performance - Work smoothly with assemblies of up to 20,000 components backed by lightweight technology.
Smart tools to speed up assembly design
• Flexible Assembly - Easily adapt and optimize component placement within an assembly model with automated constraint updates.
• Smart Fastener - Automate the identification and insertion of the correct fasteners to speed up the assembly process.
• Standard Part Library - Comprehensive, easy-to-use, and high-quality standard parts libraries with customizable flexibility.
Maintain Assembly Accuracy
• Interference Check - Identify and resolve component interference, ensuring a proper fit within the assembly and minimizing errors during manufacturing.
• Associative Updates - Automatically propagate design changes to associated assemblies, drawings, BOMs, and other related deliverables, keeping design data consistent throughout the process.
Present Assembly Concepts Clearly
• Exploded Views & Animations - Visualize internal structures and assembly sequences in action for enhanced design communication.
Create Production Drawings that Stay Aligned
ZW3D streamlines 2D drawing creation by automating repetitive tasks. With fast drawing generation and associative links to 3D models, it ensures quick, accurate, and consistent results.
Associative Updates Between 3D Models and 2D Drawings
• Sync 2D Drawings With 3D Models - Seamlessly link 3D models to ZWCAD DWG/DXF drawings with real-time associative updates.
• PMI - Associate manufacturing data with 3D models, ensuring precision and consistency throughout design and production.
Intuitive and automated 2D drawing creation
• Annotation and Symbol Libraries - Automate and simplify the creation of standardized annotations and symbols for accurate design documentation.
• Batch Output & Auto-Drafting - Streamline accurate documentation with automated drafting and a variety of annotation tools.
High-performance drawing view generation
• Advanced Projection Technology - Rapid creation of accurate, production-ready 2D drawings.
Validate Decisions before Metal is Cut
Integrated design-simulation solution for optimized designs and informed decisions.
Perfect your design early with accurate insights
• Unified Working Environment - Move seamlessly between design and simulation in a unified environment, minimizing manual work and errors.
• Consistent Data Continuity - Ensure precise data flow between CAD and CAE, reducing errors and delivering reliable simulation results.
• Optimized Cost Management - Replace the need for separate, costly simulation software, reducing software costs and speeding up workflows.
Professional simulation tools for targeted scenarios
• Comprehensive Simulation Tools - Support structural, vibration, heat transfer, and fatigue analysis, optimizing designs to improve efficiency and cut costs.
• Validated Performance - Proven accuracy through extensive verification and successful application in diverse real-world industrial challenges.
Works with legacy models and connects to industry
• Seamless Data Exchange - Support over 20 standard and commercial file formats, including import and export of the BDF and INP formats.
• Integration of Legacy Models - Easily import existing simulation models without the need for re-simulation or format conversion.
• Reliable Data Transfer - Maintain data accuracy and prevent loss during format conversions, delivering reliable and precise simulation outcomes.
Accurate data and advanced multi-physics coupling
• Advanced Multi-Physics Coupling - Facilitate smooth data transfer across disciplines—such as structural and thermal.
Turn Released Geometry into Reliable Toolpaths
Seamless design-to-manufacturing workflow for efficient production.
High-quality production with comprehensive machining strategies
• 2- to 5-Axis Machining - Comprehensive strategies for roughing, finishing, and drilling processes, supporting the machining of various mechanical parts with high precision.
• VoluMill™ CAM (Add-on) - Efficient rough machining with up to 5x processing efficiency and 80% tool cost reduction using advanced HSS/Carbide cutter technology.
• Post-Processing - Easily editable post-processing to match common CNC systems, adapting to various machine tool requirements with flexibility.
Seamless design-to-manufacturing collaboration
• Powerful Built-in CAD Capability - CAM toolpaths sync with CAD changes, and third-party files are editable with linked toolpath updates.
Proven machining accuracy with advanced simulation tools
• Verification & Simulation - Detect potential issues and ensure precise production through reliable machining with toolpath verification and full machine simulation.
Control the Engineering Record inside ZW3D
Streamlined product data management enabling collaborative design, data control, and release within the ZW3D platform.
Drive R&D productivity with collaborative design
• Fully Embedded in ZW3D - Seamlessly complete product design, team collaboration, and data release tasks within the familiar 3D interface, all in one unified platform.
• Web-Based Access - Enable real-time access to product definition data via a browser without software installation. Work across devices anytime, anywhere.
• Shared Workspace - Shared folders with clear tiers and structure ensure all team members access the same organized files and data.
• Component Reuse in Assembly – Integrate subassemblies or parts designed by team members, with associative updates ensuring design consistency and enabling concurrent engineering.
Optimize process control to enhance product quality
• Design Iteration Control - Easily switch among stages and assess design progress for faster decision-making.
• Threaded Comments and Reviews - Allow clear, organized feedback and progress tracking, with all comments systematically captured for decision reference.
• Assembly Clone - Clone assemblies to rapidly create variations with minor adjustments to components.
• Trackable Approval History - Capture every step of the approval process, including submissions, approval stages, approvers, timestamps, and comments for full traceability.
Ensure data security through unified data management
• Precise Access Control - Implement a flexible and scalable access control system, enabling differentiated access based on project status and team roles.
• Version Management - Automate minor version upgrades via check-in/check-out. Manage major releases with updated authorization controls.
• Real-Time Data Sync - Track and highlight model changes instantly, providing seamless synchronization and immediate access to updated versions.
ZW3D unified CAx platform diagram
CONNECTED BY DESIGN

Connect Design to Production

A design change should move engineering forward—not trigger a manual hunt through every downstream deliverable.

  • Associative by default

    Update drawings, assembly references, and CAM work from the evolving design.

  • Reduce handoff risk

    Keep teams working from current geometry, validated data, and controlled releases.

  • Protect production time

    Catch change impact earlier and eliminate repeat preparation caused by disconnected files.

Fewer

Manual updates

Fewer

Handoff errors

Less

Production rework

KEEP ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE WORKING

Keep What Works.
Don’t Start Over.

Your existing models, standards, design logic, and people already carry value. ZW3D helps teams preserve that value while improving the workflow around it.

STAY IN CONTROL

Engineering on Your Terms.

Adopt connected engineering without handing over control of cost, infrastructure, or rollout pace.

CUSTOMER RESULTS

Measured in engineering time, cost, and throughput.

Real machinery and manufacturing teams report faster design cycles, lower software cost, and more connected delivery with ZW3D.

65%

lower software cost

40% faster design

NEXT Robotics

MACHINERY · THAILAND

40-50%

higher design efficiency

≈ RM50K annual renewal savings

APEX

STEEL PRODUCTS · MALAYSIA

20%

design time saved

Faster concept turnaround

Cyrus

MACHINERY · INDIA

2 weeks → 3 days

prototype cycle

40% shorter drawing reviews

Engetak

AUTOMOTIVE · BRAZIL

Recognized for excellence and innovation

Named a high performer for CAD category in G2’s 2024 winter report.
ZWSOFT STARTUP PROGRAM

Turn Great Ideas into Reality

ZWSOFT helps startups turn ideas into real products, from concept and design to manufacturing. Through the ZWSOFT Startup Program, eligible startups can access ZW3D at reduced cost, along with training resources and technical support to help bring products to market and support future growth.

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What is ZW3D?

ZW3D is professional 3D engineering software built for machinery manufacturers and machine builders. It connects CAD, CAE and CAM capabilities for design, validation and manufacturing preparation, helping engineering teams work from design toward production in a more connected workflow.

What is ZW3D used for?

ZW3D supports everyday machinery engineering tasks including part design, complex assembly design, 2D production drawings, simulation, machining preparation and engineering collaboration. It also helps teams manage design changes and reuse existing engineering data across projects.

Is ZW3D suitable for machinery design?

Yes. Its engineering workflows are designed around machinery manufacturers, machine builders and mechanical engineering teams.

Does ZW3D include CAD, CAE and CAM?

Yes. ZW3D provides CAD, CAE and CAM capabilities within a connected engineering environment, allowing teams to move from mechanical design and validation toward manufacturing preparation with fewer handoffs between separate tools.

Can ZW3D work with files from other CAD systems?

ZW3D supports more than 25 import and export formats for exchanging and reusing engineering data across different CAD environments.

Can ZW3D handle large assemblies?

ZW3D includes large-assembly capabilities designed for demanding machinery workflows, including supported workflows with assemblies containing up to 20,000 components.

What is ZW3D WuKong?

ZW3D WuKong is a new generation of ZW3D built on a new parametric architecture. It is designed to improve model regeneration, associativity and performance across demanding engineering workflows, including complex machinery design and large assemblies.

Can I try ZW3D for free?

Yes. ZW3D is available with a 30-day free trial so you can explore its design, validation and manufacturing capabilities in your own engineering workflow.

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