Looked at the list of improvements/bug fixes for their new ZW 2011 SP2 and it, if this was a complete list, was way to short.Īs far as I can see being bought out by the Chinese has not produced any meaningfull improvements and so they remain a small niche plastic mold player with a cam program that takes to long to set up and is buggy to boot. Loaded up the 2011 trial and after a few days took it off in disgust.

The direct editing they brought out is terrible and still cam problems, bad sheet metal capabilities and after all these years no cam for lathe. Their best offering was VX V14.50 and it has been downhill since. Having been a VX user from V9 until ZW3d 2010 I have been interested in the program even though I have let it lapse almost a year and a half ago. If it complains that your phone number is invalid, leave out the hyphens. But, if you'd rather try it out free, then download it from their Web site - after providing your particulars.

Until the end of January, customers get 50% off one upgrade to ZWCAD 2012. The two primary Chinese ITC members have been remarkable in their efforts to duplicate the AutoCAD UX (user experience). If this sounds a lot like AutoCAD, do not be surprised. Export drawings as multi-page DWF files.No limit on number of drawings in batch publishing.Drawing compare now compares attributes, blocks, and text.Hyperlinks and additional currency symbols in tables.Dimensions can be placed on region objects.Easier to insert blocks from Tools palette.Entities in blocks can be used for trimming.The latest release is ZWCAD 2012, and these are some of its new features: You can join their ZWCAD Developer Network for free.

The company says it has 180, 000 users around the world, but the counter has been stuck at this number for some time now.

ZW3D for 3D modeling and CAM operations, formerly known as VX.

ZWCAD for 2D drafting and simple 3D design, based on IntelliCAD.

ZWSOFT of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) has two software packages: I plan to highlight some software packages from China and Russia in the next few blog postings.

Zwcad 2011