ZWCAD provides familiar Classic and Ribbon interfaces. With the similar CAD commands, you can use ZWCAD immediately without any re-learning cost. ZWCAD is a proven CAD solution with over 900,000 satisfied users across 90 countries.
It’s fast. Unprecedentedly. Thanks to multi-core processing technology, the performance of ZWCAD will not let you down.
- Seamless DWG Compatibility – Reading, saving, and sharing drawings are guaranteed to be lossless and easy
- Familiar Interfaces – You are free to choose from the familiar Classic and Ribbon interfaces
- Easy-to-Use Commands – Get started immediately with the intuitive CAD commands and alias
Which ZWCAD Is Right For You
Standard | Professional | Mechanical |
Full DWG compatibility 2D drawing API (LISP) |
Full DWG compatibility 2D drawing 3D modeling APIs (LISP, ZRX, .NET, VBA) |
Full DWG compatibility 2D drawing 3D modeling APIs (LISP, ZRX, .NET, VBA) Part library(GBISODIN) Advanced annotation tool |
New in this version
A powerful, reliable and DWG compatible CAD solution, ZWCAD guarantees affordable lifelong design quality and productivity.
Sheet Set Manager View, access, manage, and plot multiple drawings. All of them can be done in one panel. |
More Powerful Table Tool Satisfy your various needs with new functions like Match Cell and Block Insertion. Edit the table from context menu in ribbon directly. |
Faster Operations Faster in frequent-used operations including Select, Delete, Pan, Zoom and 3D Render. |
Edit a 3D Entity Using Grips Change a 3D entity’s shape easily by dragging the grips. |
Compatible with 3D Mouse Rotate, pan or zoom a 3D entity freely on a 3D mouse from 3Dconnexion®. You can also carry on frequently-used commands on it. |
Support Export of EPS Files Export EPS files easily with the addition of Adobe® PostScript plotter. |
Enhanced Calculator Do more complex work and develop more powerful add-ons. It now can calculate Imperial units and vectors, and identify more functions and variables. |
New Tooltip in Ribbon An image will appear along with the text when you hover your mouse over a button, so you can find what you need within seconds. |
Quick Menu for Object Snap Choose Object Snap type easily on the quick right-click menu without additional steps. |
Preview Window for Font Replacement Check if the selected font can replace the lost font successfully in Preview Window. |
Highlights
Boost Design Efficiency
Design Center Make Better use of resources by adding drawings, blocks, hatches et. to the current drawing |
Accelerated File Processing Drawing reading and saving became much faster thanks to multi-core concurrent calculation |
Tool Palettes Store and share blocks, hatches and drawing tools to design more efficiently |
Innovations
Smart Mouse Trigger commands with mouse gestures |
Smart Voice Annotate with recorded voice |
Smart Select Select desired objects quickly with multi-filter |
Smart Plot Plot frames in batches from the model space |
Features
Barcode & QR Code Convert information into barcodes or QR codes and embed them in the drawing |
File Compare Spot the differences between two drawings at once |
Undo Snapshot Preview and go back to any of the previous steps |
Settings Migration Migrate customized settings from earlier versions (ZWCAD 2018/2019) to the latest version |
Digital Signature Ensure original and reliable source of drawing data |
Data Extraction Create and update tables made with data of objects for better data organization and analysis |
Express Tools More handy drawing tools are available |
Super Hatch Hatch with blocks, Xrefs, images, etc. |
Layout Export Export visible objects from the layout to the model space |
Sheet Set Manager View, access, manage, and plot multiple drawings. All of them can be done in one panel |
Tool Palettes Drag and use mechanical, architectural, electrical blocks; store custom blocks |
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2D Drawing |
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3D Modeling |
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Annotate |
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Plot & Publish |
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APIs (LISP, ZRX, .NET, VBA) |
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Part Library (GBISODIN) |
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Advanced Annotation Tool |
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Compatibility |
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PDF & DGN Import |
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Interface |
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Classic and Ribbon Interfaces |
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Customize User Interface (CUI) |
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Properties Palette |
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Dynamic Input |
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Dark/Light UI |
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Tool Palettes |
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Auto-complete Command Entry |
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Annotation |
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Leader & MLeader |
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Revcloud |
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Text and MText |
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Hatch/Gradient Hatch |
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Associative Dimension |
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Annotative Scale |
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Super Hatch |
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Tables & Table styles |
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Field |
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Layer |
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Layer Properties Manager |
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Layer Filter |
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Layer State Manager |
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Xref, Block and Attribute |
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Underlay (DWG, DWF(x), PDF) |
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Multiple Blocks Inserting |
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Block Attribute Manager |
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OLE |
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Raster Images |
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Xrefs In-place Editing |
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3D |
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Solid, Surface, and Mesh Modeling |
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Visual Style |
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Output |
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Plot |
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Publish |
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Export |
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Innovations |
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SmartMouse/Voice/Select/Plot |
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Barcode & QR Code |
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Others |
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File Compare |
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Quick Select |
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Match Property |
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Quick Calculator |
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Multiline and Multiline Style |
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Express Tools |
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Smart Annotations |
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Power Dimension |
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Multiple Dimensions |
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Detect dimension overlap and determine suitable distance |
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Quickly design by using mechanical symbols |
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Intelligent Balloon and BOM |
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Easily generate balloons and BOM |
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Associative Balloon and BOM |
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Intelligent Drawing Environment |
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Enterprise and international standards support |
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Layer management and layer mapping |
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Multiple borders and adaptive scaling |
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Super Edit |
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Mechanical Parts and Generator |
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Part Library |
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Shafts and Gears |
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Extended Drawing Tools for Manufacturing |
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Construction lines |
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Advanced Centerline |
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Reusable detailing tools |
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Draw Groove quickly and accurately |
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Webinars
Latest ZWCAD Standard Webinar from Novedge
ZWCAD 2019 Features and Updates
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