CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
16 July 2012
Product News
ZWCAD+ Launch: New Core. New Possibilities
ZWCAD Design has unveiled ZWCAD+, the next generation of ZWCAD. With years of time and effort spent in the development of the new kernel, and 20+ years of CAD development experience, ZWCAD+ is created to provide an all-encompassing solution for its users.
ZWCAD+ is powered by a new and superior engine that ensures even greater .dwg support, better memory control, and code-level API compatibility. These, reinforced with a fresh UI, and new and enhanced features give ZWCAD+ not only a competitive edge in the CAD market, but create a friendly easy to use user experience.
The launch of ZWCAD+ marks an important milestone for ZWCAD Design, and the differences between the previous version are evident. Kingdom Lin, the ZWCAD+ Overseas Business Director stated, “ZWCAD+ is fundamentally different from ZWCAD 2012 as we built the entire software from the ground up. That’s why we are able to offer our customers a more fluid and efficient design experience. The tagline of ZWCAD+ is New Core. New Possibilities. I think it best exemplifies how ZWCAD+ is different from ZWCAD and other CAD software. With the built-in new and superior engine, ZWCAD+ allows designers and developers to think big with more possibilities.”
ZWCAD+ leverages the power of the new kernel and provides a fluid and efficient design experience. As seen in the new features and enhancements:
- Greater .dwg Support: ZWCAD+ has been through over 50,000 extremely rigorous drawing tests. With the overall improvements made to its .dwg compatibility, there’s ZERO problem in displaying the original .dwg files in ZWCAD+. It makes cross-platform communication easier than ever.
- Industry Leading Memory Optimization: The new memory optimization technology enables ZWCAD+ to open any drawing with memory usage reduced by 50%. That’s why it works smoothly with drawings that are over 100 MB. It’s also excellent in reducing memory accumulation, which ensures non-stop operation throughout the day.
- Code-level API Compatibility: LISP routines now run directly on ZWCAD+ with only a few modifications. The ported applications run up to eight times quicker on average when compared with ZWCAD.
- The Brand New Ribbon Interface: ZWCAD+ has a new, advanced Ribbon UI, making it even easier to use. The newly added feature SmartMouse, redefines the way of executing CAD commands. Both of them are tailor-made to give you a light-weighted, flexible and fast user experience.
- New Features and Enhancements: Frequently used functions, including Block Attribute Manager, Viewport Maximization, Cycle Selection and Associative Dimension, have been added to ZWCAD+. Fundamental enhancements have also been made to features such as Tool Palettes, Revision Cloud, Field, and Snap. All these are made to take your design efficiency to the next level.
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