Visualizing Ideas Through Drafting and Detailing

Fundamental Drawing Tools

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

Flexible Text Placement Options

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.

Efficient Blocks and Attributes

Define multiple objects as wholes to create blocks (symbols). With these you can standardize drawing components, and efficiently reuse them in other drawings. Attributes allow you to attach data to blocks, such as inventory numbers, pricing, and detailed descriptions.

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.

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.

OLE

Insert linked or embedded objects into the current drawing to take full advantage of information from other applications. You can insert movies, spreadsheets, formatted documents, and more.

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.

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.

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.

Export Options

With Export command you can save drawings in a variety of file formats. This is useful for placing drawings in other application programs.

Improved Layouts

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

Realistic Renderings

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

Convenient JPEG and PNG Output

Optimized JPEG plotter and PNG plotter configurations can be found in the plot dialog box. This allows you to easily plot drawings as high quality JPEG or PNG images.

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.