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Friends, ZWDirect is pleased to announce the immediate availability of ZWCAD 2018, the latest version of the high-performance, affordably-priced CAD solution trusted by over 550,000 users worldwide. Please find improvements, additions, and team quotes below. Click for ZWCAD 2018 Release Notes, Sneak Peek Videos, the Product Page, and Download Page. We are very excited about ZWCAD 2018 -- it's our highest-performance and most familiar, innovative, and customizable version ever. Most importantly, we hope to help boost your productivity and quality with ZWCAD 2018 very soon! The ZWDIrect Team ZWCAD 2018 Improvements and Additions
Overall, ZWCAD 2018 Now Boasts
On New Dark Theme UI Daniel Huang, the ZWCAD product manager stated, “Users deserve a fluid and better design experience, so that’s why we provide a brand-new dark theme UI in ZWCAD 2018. The lower brightness and higher contrast of such design can greatly reduce the visual fatigue from long time drafting. We also did lots of modification in the details, for example, the buttons and icons styles and the text height and width, so the whole appearance will present the best visual effect for users.”  On Speed and Improved Stability Improvements Charles Zhao, the director of R&D stated, “ZWCAD 2018 use many technologies to improve the efficiency, users will find that frequently used commands and layout switch speed are much faster than before, because we optimize the reactors and memory to trigger under certain situations instead unconditionally.” On the Integrated Calculator  Hello,
We are very proud to announce... Based on increasing demand for ZWCAD in manufacturing, AMC Bridge has developed, in collaboration with PTC, a Windchill Workgroup Manager (WWGM) Adapter for ZWCAD to enable interoperability between PTC Windchill and ZWCAD products. The WWGM Adapter is now fully functional, tested, and available so that manufacturers standardized on Windchill can freely choose ZWCAD 2017 as a high-powered, lower-cost 2D/3D CAD solution available via perpetual license. AMC Bridge is a global vendor of choice for software development services in CAD, CAE, CAM, PDM, PLM, and other technologies used by manufacturers, engineering firms, automated manufacturing integrators, and construction companies. With over 300 developers and over 16 years, AMC improved engineering process overhead by the development of 3D/2D modeling software products; data, document and community management technologies; CAD data interoperability; 3D printing software; and many other aspects of software development for manufacturing and construction businesses. ZWSoft, from its headquarters in the Pearl River Tower in downtown Guangzhou, now serves over 550,000 users around the world with high-powered, affordable, open 2D/3D CAD/CAM across the design, manufacturing, and infrastructure industries. For more on the WWGM Adapter for ZWCAD, visit www.amcbridge.com. Best, Yatin Suri yatin.suri@zwdirect.com Hello, As his talks are always quite compelling, many US/Canadian customers and prospects have asked to hear from Truman Du, the CEO of ZWSOFT. We'll be sharing 3 short/weekly "CEO Chats" with Truman, taken from his talks at the recent GPC conference to over 200 attendees:
Thanks much, we hope you enjoy, and let us know if you'd like to be included in a personal briefing with Truman over the summer. Best, Yatin Suri yatin.suri@zwdirect.com  1. Company 2017 Update: Making ZWCAD Great Again! The past two years have been very challenging and exciting for our company. We not only globally settled our legal dispute with Autodesk but also made major progress in our business and product lines. From our Global Partnership Conference (GPC) last month, with 107 Partners, 90 Major Accounts, and over 200 attendees from 32 countries in the audience, we were very happy to report:
For all this progress, we thank our customers, partners, and employees -- it was a total team effort and we appreciate your support! And, given this team, our management, and our strategy, we look forward to even greater progress in 2017 and 2018. Looking forward to our next chat on our strategy going forward -- our company is very focused and very enthused to increase the success of our growing customer base around the world! Truman Du CEO, ZWSOFT 2. ZWCAD 2017 Product Update: Welcoming the 3rd Generation We're happy to welcome the successful and inspiring arrival of our 3rd generation CAD platform, available as ZWCAD 2017. In order the make a great product, we started with a great development process:
Specifically, ZWCAD 2017 SP3 now offers:
Truman Du CEO, ZWSOFT 3. A Compelling Future: ZWSoft Strategic Focus and Goals ZWSoft has certainly recovered strongly from a challenging past two years -- we've grown by 20%, now serve over 550,000 global users, and have fully modernized our 2D and 3D platforms to propel us and our customers confidently into an exciting future. Speaking of the future, I'm honored to share our 8 Principles for continuing to grow our company and expand our customer success:
Following these principles, we believe we can reach or exceed our top 2 Goals:
Thanks much for your time, we appreciate your consideration of our products, and I hope we have a chance to meet soon! Truman Du CEO, ZWSOFT  ZWSoft HQ at Pearl River Tower
Then, when it comes time to program a part, rather than creating all the logic from start, you simply choose the template type and it generates the CNC code automatically! And this happens again and again and again -- it's now a optimized, repeatable operation in your business. REUSEABLE CNC CODING TEMPLATES |
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Many 2D-CAD users in mechanical design would like to transition to full 3D-CAD but are concerned about over-complexity and affordability.
Well, ZW3D LITE is built especially for you! Specifically, it:
In fact, I was reading another blog about how there are many users of 2D software that are contemplating the switch to 3D CAD solid modeling so I thought I should show how ZW3D handles this task.
Specifically, I put together a 3-minute video where I import a 2D drawing into 3D space then create the 3D model and verify with an assembly -- we conclude with a design for a computer mouse with its circuit board.
One of the neat features that I show in ZW3D is the "move" command. Every time I show people simple moving with vectors they allows say "Wow, that was easy!" When moving the 3 views together you want to stand up the group in that view, so what was pointing in the Y+ you really want pointing in Z+ -- it's easy to do with vectors.
The other feature I use when modeling is "insert component" so in the example I wanted to see if the 3D shape I was making would allow the circuit board assembly to be inserted and fit correctly.
If you are considering moving from 2D to 3D, check out the below video and let us know if we can help -- email me here for a hands-on demo.
Randy Biebel
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Well, ZW3D LITE is built especially for you! Specifically, it:
- Has all the 3D functionality that you need (ZW3D feature chart)
- Is easy to use for 2D users
- Provides a strong growth curve to high-end 3D if needed
- Is eminently affordable ($1300 list)
In fact, I was reading another blog about how there are many users of 2D software that are contemplating the switch to 3D CAD solid modeling so I thought I should show how ZW3D handles this task.
Specifically, I put together a 3-minute video where I import a 2D drawing into 3D space then create the 3D model and verify with an assembly -- we conclude with a design for a computer mouse with its circuit board.
One of the neat features that I show in ZW3D is the "move" command. Every time I show people simple moving with vectors they allows say "Wow, that was easy!" When moving the 3 views together you want to stand up the group in that view, so what was pointing in the Y+ you really want pointing in Z+ -- it's easy to do with vectors.
The other feature I use when modeling is "insert component" so in the example I wanted to see if the 3D shape I was making would allow the circuit board assembly to be inserted and fit correctly.
If you are considering moving from 2D to 3D, check out the below video and let us know if we can help -- email me here for a hands-on demo.
Randy Biebel
ZW3D Product Page
I enjoy saving time with ZW3D's unified modeling approach to creating parts.
It's fun designing new parts without the worries of which tool do I choose to get the job done. With ZW3D's "Overdrive Kernel" and its best-in-class CAD tools I know I can get the job done quickly and accurately.
While the list of related features is far too long to review here, I thought I'd share my favorite aspects in this design of a car side-mirror:
It's fun designing new parts without the worries of which tool do I choose to get the job done. With ZW3D's "Overdrive Kernel" and its best-in-class CAD tools I know I can get the job done quickly and accurately.
While the list of related features is far too long to review here, I thought I'd share my favorite aspects in this design of a car side-mirror:
- First of all, ZW3D has a powerful set of both surface and solid commands. But what's even more powerful is that the solid tools can operate directly on surfaces and vice versa -- this makes for new possibilities in shapes and productivity.
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- (Although I didn't have time in this demo, I should also mention direct edit modeling and related tools -- they are invaluable, especially when re-engineering a part or healing for manufacturing.)
See all these at work in the below video.
And I encourage you to try ZW3D CAD for your 3D design tool -- you will be pleased with its ease, power, and flexibility for high end work.
-- Randy Biebel, Manufacturing Advisor, ZWDirect
"Before it became widely recognized that holding designs in your hand attracted people to 3D printing like a moth to a flame, a lot of engineers were unaware of its benefits. While you can’t hold running code, today’s Pick of the Week gives you the pleasant surprise of showing what a full-featured CAD/CAM system can do for you."
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| Manufacturing shops, do you often receive 3D part models from customers that need major fixing before you can build the mold or start machining? And are you forced to spend countless man-hours tediously touching-up untrimmed surfaces, missing surfaces, and open edges? If so, I invite you to try ZW3D -- the Overdrive modeler and healing tools inside this CAD/CAM solution make quick work of fixing these faults and giving you a fully useable model. |  "Show Open Edges" Guides Users Through All Faults |
Here are some top features and commands that I've featured in a recent video:
- On importing, you have the options of "Autosew", "Break Trim Edges", and "Delete Duplicate Surfaces" -- a great start to healing and prepping the model.
- Also useful tool is the "Move" command which lets you orient the model by vectors to make it as handy as possible to heal.
- Then you have the centerpiece "Show Open Edges" command which highlights and guides you through all unresolved problems step-by-step -- it's an amazing confidence builder and time saver.
- I often use "Concatenate Edges" to join surface edges by an angle deviation and automatically correct many problems.
- Then you have a powerful freeform editing toolset, highlighted by "Trim to All Curves" -- because you don't need to manually pick each curve, this tool alone saves hours. Also remember, because Overdrive is a unified modeler, you can trim edges to either surfaces or shapes.
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But the best news is that all this healing is simple and fast -- what used to takes hours now takes minutes.
Feel free to have a deeper look at the video below.
-- Randy Biebel, Manufacturing Advisor, ZWDirect
Feel free to have a deeper look at the video below.
-- Randy Biebel, Manufacturing Advisor, ZWDirect