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ZWCAD Presentation

Overseas Dept

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Outline

ZWCAD IntroductionBasic Features

Advanced Features

Application Programming Interfaces

What’s New in ZWCAD 2009

Customer Service

This is the outline of the presentation:First, I’ll introduce some of the important functions of ZWCAD, then I’ll introduce the new features of ZWCAD2009…. At last, I’ll speak about the service we can provide…..

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Overview

Powerful CAD Platform Based on ITC& ODA

Fully Compatible with AutoCAD®

Powerful 2D Functions

Global Cooperation

Available in 12 Languages Simplified Chinese, Tradition Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish, Korean , Turkish ,Italian, German, Polish, Japanese, Czech.

As known to all, ITC provide an basic foundation for CAD platform, and ODA makes you compatible with other standard DWG format CAD data.

So, as a member of ITC,ODA, it ensure that ZWCAD has the best advanced technology and best compatibility.

ZWCAD has the best compatibility with AutoCAD®, including file formats, operate custom and friendly interface. This will be introduced later.

ZWCAD offers comprehensive and powerful 2D. It is also available in 12 languages, including Simplified Chinese, Tradition Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish, Korean , Turkish ,Italian, German, Polish, Japanese, Czech.Also, we have widely global cooperation, such as Intel .(And ZWCAD support multiple core now. )--------------------------------------------ITC (IntelliCAD Technical Consortium ) is an organization owned by its members, who are focus on developing a DWG-compatible CAD platform and share with each other in over 30 different countries. So, in a certain degree, it’s the best CAD technical consortium against AutoCAD®.

ODA (Open design alliance) is an association of software developers and users to committed to promoting open, industry-standard formats for the exchange of CAD data.

ZWCAD2007---We have six language versions such Simplified Chinese version, Tradition Chinese version, English version, Spanish version, Polish version and Japanese version.

ZWCAD2008----We want to release 11 language versions: Simplified Chinese, Tradition Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Polish, Japanese and Czech

ZWCAD2009---We have 12 language versions: Simplified Chinese, Tradition Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish, Korean , Turkish ,Italian, German, Polish, Japanese, Czech.

Note: why we can use dwg format as our native format, it is because we are the member of ODAWhy we can have our copyright, because we have our source code, we are the member of ITC, therefore, we can share the technology, and we do a lot of work to improve ZWCAD.

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ZWCAD Introduction

Basic Features

Advanced Features

Application Programming Interfaces

Basic features<< compatibility, dimension, text, block, image…….Advance features<< publish, pltplot, refedit,wipeout,arctext, mline&mledit, hatch-trim, tracking….APIs<< Autolisp, VBA, SDS, DRX

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Basic Feature --Compatibility

Unrivaled AutoCAD® Compatibility

Native DWG/DXF format, support AutoCAD® from 2.5 to 2009

Support AutoCAD® command line

Export to BMP, WMF, EMF, SVG, DWF, EPS, PDF & SAT format.

Support AutoCAD® Commands, Menus, Toolbars (.MNU) & Alias (.PGP)

Support Windows TTF & AutoCAD® SHX Fonts

Support Raster Image

Support AutoCAD® Linetypes (.LIN), Hatch Patterns (PAT), Slides (.SLD) & Units Files (UNT)

Support .CTB and .STB plot style

ZWCAD supports DWG/DXF from AutoCAD® 2.5 to 2009. You can open, save and edit these drawings without transferring and data lostZWCAD provide the familiar operation if you used to work with AutoCAD®. It is similar with AutoCAD® including command names, aliases and procedure..Beside that, ZWCAD has a friendly interface. menu, toolbar and command line Furthermore, the hatch file, linetype file, and text file are supported by ZWCAD

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Basic Features – Layer

Layer

Layer----You can setup a new layer and modify the layer properties such as color, linetype, lineweight, plotstyle, etc. It is easy for you to manage the properties of your drawing.

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Basic Features – Draw & Edit

The same command

The same function

Look at the Draw % Edit menu, ZWCAD provide the powerful 2D function for drawing and modifying your design

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Basic Features -- Sensitive Snap Function

Snap function

When you are designing your drawing, snap function is very important, sensitive snap function is provided, you don’t need to wait to snap any particular point, you can only focus on your design

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Basic Features – Text

Multiple language support

Text style

Text

When you want to make a list or manufacturing introduction in your drawing, you choose Dtext or Mtext to do it, Beside that, Mtext support multiple language input, in the Mtext editor, you can input different language such as Chinese, Polish, Japanese, Spanish,etc

And with the option of text style, you can write and edit your text in your favorite way.

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Basic Features – Dimension

Dimension tool

Dimension

Almost every drawing needs the dimension to show the project clearly.

With the powerful dimension tool, you can set your own style of dimension, and draw your own dimension to separate different objects. It makes that your design easy to read and edit.

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Basic Features – Raster Image

Image supportbmp、jpg、jpeg、gif、png、tif、pcx、tga

Image option

ZWCAD support bmp、jpg、jpeg、gif、png、tif、pcx and tga format.And when you input the image, you can set the insertion point, scale, rotation as you want.

With the image options, you can insert your image and dimension, and you can also use imageclip function to edit you image.

I think it is a good function show your colorful drawing.

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Basic Features – Block and Xref

Block

External reference

Block and External reference means sharing and reusing the resource of drawings. You can easily to insert another drawing in current drawing.

About block: you can not only define your block and attribute block, but also you can edit them easily with In-place Edit function, by double-click, you can edit the relevant block.

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Basic Features – Plot

Plot & Plotstyle

After you finish your drawing, then plot is a very important point to show your drawing in paper.

With the clear plot dialog, you can set all the plot option easily, and ZWCAD support .ctb or .stb plotstyle

By the way, no matter whether you use ctb plotstyle or stb plotstyle in other CAD software, both of them are supported in ZWCAD, and it is more convenient to integrate with other CAD software.

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Advanced FeaturesItems ZWCAD 2009 AutoCAD®2009Publish Yes Yes

Pltplot Yes No

Reference Edit Yes Yes

Wipeout Yes Yes

Arctext Yes Yes

Mline&Mledit Yes Yes

Hatch-Trim Yes Yes

Tracking Yes Yes

Design Center Yes Yes

Calculator Yes Yes

Besides that basic feature, ZWCAD provide advanced feature to meet your need.. There are 10 important features that supported by ZWCAD. Let’s go ahead!

Notes: By the way, some of other CAD software don’t support these features well.

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Advanced Features --Publish

Batch print

Plot to DWF

Publish allows you to print several drawings together each time.Just specify which drawing you want to print, then press “plot”, it can print one by one according to the page settings.Besides print to plotter, it can also batch published to DWF.

Note: 3d DWF is not supported in current version

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Advanced Features --Pltplot

Batch print .plt files

This function is similar to the publish, the difference is ：PLTPLOT is suitable for plotting .plt files.

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Advanced Features --Reference Edit

In-place reference editing

Both blocks and xrefs are considered as references

In-place reference editing means you can edit entities in block easily without changing the definition of block.For example, you can change one block’s color, position, or add new objects, you can edit the external reference directly without open the corresponding reference drawing.

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Advanced Features --Wipeout

WipeoutWith wipeout function, you can easily make irrelevant entities hidden

If you want hide some entities, you can use wipeout function.

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Advanced Features --Arctext

Places text along an arc.

Adjust text to fit the arc automatically

Arctext is a new way to align the text. It can place the texts along an arc. It is very useful to make your own label in the drawing.And if you drag to change the arc, the texts would automatically adjust to fit.

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Advanced Features –Mline&Mledit

Mline & Mledit

Mline and Mledit enable you to make your design in the efficient way, for example, you can easier to make the window or wall quickly…..

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Advanced Features --Hatch-Trim

Hatch-Trim

With the Hatch-Trim function, you can edit the hatch, and don’t need so many complicated operation to change the hatch boundary.

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Advanced Features –Polar Tracking

Polar tracking & object snap tracking

Increment angle

Additional angles

Object snap tracking

Auto-tracking includes Polar tracking and Object snap tracking.It makes you snap the point easily by any angle and length with the polar tracking lines.For example, there is a rectangular with four lines, and I want to draw a circle in side exactly.

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Advanced Features –Design Center

Design center

DesignCenter offers you a convenient way to manage the issues of your drawing such as dimension style, blocks, text style, line types and layers. Just drag and drop, you can apply them from any source drawing to your current drawing. Source drawings can be on your computer or on your local network. In addition, you can also search drawings with drawing name or drawing size. It means that you can use the information of other drawings in current drawing.

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Advanced Features –Calculator

Quick calculatorBasic features

Geometric functions

Scientific functions

Variables

Units Conversion

Text Calculate

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Application Programming Interfaces

Autolisp

VBA

SDS

DRX (Similar to ARX)

In order to working more efficiently, I think maybe a lot of designer like to make their own small application. ZWCAD provide more convenient application programming interface such as autolisp, VBA, SDS and DRX. It means that you can choose your satisfied way to develop your own applications.

Note: comparing to AutoCAD®

AutolispIf the add-ons are developed by Autolisp, they can be loaded and executed successfully in ZWCAD without or just a little modification. If you find some lisp applications can't be used in ZWCAD, please let us know, we can modify them for you. It is a simple work.VBAEven you can use VBA to develop your own programs in ZWCAD, it is nearly the same as you do in AutoCAD®. But the process of compilation is different, so if you want to move your own program from AutoCAD® to ZWCAD, it need a little modification and compile again.SDSIt is the same as ADS, both of them are C language, but some variables may be different between AutoCAD®and ZWCAD, it needs to compile again. If you want to move it from AutoCAD® to ZWCAD, it is really an easy work, you can ask add-on provider to compile a ZWCAD version. If you need any help about that, please contact us. Visual lispZWCAD support 80% visual lisp functions, it means that you can it is easier to develop your application or migrate your application from other CAD platform. (Visual lisp editor is not provided in current version)DRXZWCAD2008 support DRX, which it is similar to ARX, and it support most of the ARX functions except Customize Entities. It means that more and more third-party software company can work with us to develop their program, and more and more third-party software can be migrated to ZWCAD.

What’s New in ZWCAD2009

Greater Stability

Faster Speed

Easier Operations

Better DRX

There a lot of improvement and some new features in ZWCAD 2009, such as greater stability, faster speed, easier operations and better DRX.

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Greater Stability

Optimized arithmetic to assure the stability

Crash report

Autobackup

With the improvement of lots of functions and the strict test using the automatic test system, the stability of ZWCAD has been greatly improved

(1)With the rewrite of many functions, such as Undo, Explode, Insert, PasteClip, Stretch, Refedit, offset, trim, extend and Snap, the higher stability is assured(2) More than 20,000 drawings are used for the stability test.(3) The automatic backup function protects your work from unexpected crashes.

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Faster Speed

Insert\Copyclip\Pasteclip\Trim\Extend\Offset

The speed of a large number of crucial functions has been improved, contributing to a 30% increase in overall performance. Commands such as Insert, Copyclip\Pasteclip\Trim\Extend\Offsetare now twice as fast, while the speed of the Regen command is 30% faster.

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Easier Operations

Tool Palettes

Tool PalettesTool Palettes is used to organize, share, and place commands, blocks, and other tools, and you can manipulate your block library through Design Center.

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Easier Operations

eTransmit

eTransmit eTransmit improves collaboration with clients. It lets you collect all relevant files in a single package, including drawings, images, external references, and fonts.

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Easier Operations

Aerial View Window

Aerial View WindowWith the help of Aerial View Window, In a large drawing, you can pan and zoom quickly in a window that can display the whole drawing.

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Easier Operations

Multiple Grips Editing

Multiple Grips EditingWith the powerful new multiple grips editing function, you can work with more than one grip at a time, using stretch through multiple grips, and can use the system variable to control the grips (grips\gripblock\griptips).

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Easier Operations

Filter

FilterWith the Filter function, you can use TEXT Search or Graphic Search to search for kinds of entities through various filter conditions. It also supports searching from previous filtered result and creating the selection set. In addition, it supports searches of custom objects and their positions.

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Easier Operations

Undo Improvement

Jogged Dimension and Arc Length Dimension

Undo improvementUndo\Redo history list can help you to execute the multiple redo or undo.

Jogged Dimension and Arc Length DimensionWith the highly improvement with Dimension, Jogged dimension and Arc Length dimension are provided, while the setting of them is available from the dimension style manager

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Better DRX

DRX Improvement: Insert\pasteclip\explode\extend\trim\stretch support for custom object

DRX programming interface (similar to ARX in AutoCAD®) is provided, with the improvement of Insert\pasteclip\explode\extend\trim\stretch functions for custom objects, it enables you to develop your application with higher efficiency. In order to provide the better DRX environment, please contact us if you need it for your developing.

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Other improvements

Text

Hatch

Snap

Refedit

Plot

TextEnable to find the alternative font in case the original font is missing, and fixed some aligning problems of text.HatchImproved the association of hatch, and fixed kinds of problems of walked-hatchSnapIncrease the speed of snap, especially snapping to block and xref in the large drawingRefedit Highly increase editing speed under REFEDIT status, and optimized it for the large drawingPlotIncrease the plotting speed, and provide grayscale option for Plot Styles

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R&D Introduction

R&D in Guangzhou More than 70 developers

In charge of the developing of ZWCAD

R&D in Wuhan More than 40 developers

Work for applications based on ZWCAD

Responsible for the migration

Responsible for developing some small tool

R&D staff is increasing

We have a powerful R&D team, there are around 110 staff in our R&D team, and the number is increasing. We commit ourselves to provide a better and better version for you.

We put most of the effort to develop ZWCAD platform, and we also have a special R&D team to help our application partners to migrate their application on ZWCAD.

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Customer service

SupportEmail: tech@zwcad.com

Phone, fax

MSN: tech_zw@hotmail.com

Skype: tech_zw

Contact live support on our website

Forum: http://www.zwcad.org/forum/Patch: Routine patch is providedMore value added service may be provided by our local dealer

Note: You can write you own support service.

Note: About patch: generally speaking there will be at least four big update patch or more for ZWCAD2008.

Besides that, about technical service from ZWCAD, you can get service from following way.

Technical Mailbox: tech@zwcad.com. Please describe your questions in detail and attach your relative file, and we will respond to you in 3 working days after receiving your email.

MSN: tech_zw@hotmail.com Skype: tech_zwThe available time is from 8:30a.m. to 5:30 p.m. GMT+8.

Technical Live SupportGo to www.zwcad.org first, then you will find an icon of Technical Live Support. Please click it to chat with our engineer. And the available time is from 8:30a.m. to 5:30 p.m. GMT+8. If we’re offline, you can leave a message and we would revert back on the next working day.

Support RequestsPlease log in the relative links first: http://www.zwcad.org/Question.asp.Then fill out the table and submitted the questions to us. Our support engineer will reply to you within 2 working days

ForumZWCAD hosts a discussion group in forum. You can visit http://www.zwcad.org/forum/default.asp to ask questions or share your experience of using ZWCAD. Any suggestion is also appreciated.

More informationVisit SUPPORT part of ZWCAD website to get more information, such as Knowledge-Base, FAQ, E-training, etc

Contact local supportTechnical support is also available from ZWCAD Authorized Agents and Resellers. You can contact local support for help.

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