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ZWCAD 2020 Released – Unprecedented Speed, Richness, Stability

6/25/2019

ZWDirect is pleased to announce the availability of ZWCAD 2020.

The new release brings a compelling collection of new features and improvements – adding up to unprecedented speed, richness, and stability for a CAD solution. All while, of course, retaining ZWCAD's leadership in affordability.

The highlights:

UNPRECEDENTED SPEED: 150% faster on most common commands thanks to multicore processing and a small executable footprint – for example, the load time of a 180M drawing is reduced from 50s to 18s.
MANAGE PDF OVERLAYS: from a single dialog box, users can attach, detach, open, or check the attributes of PDF Underlays.
ANNOTATION SCALE LIST RESET: the system will notify users when an excess of annotation scales in a set of drawings is degrading performance and allow for a list reset to remove unused scales and improve performance.
DATA EXTRACTION: users can extract properties and data from objects to a drawing table or export to a spreadsheet.
LISP DEBUGGER: developers can visually and interactively debug their LISP customizations and applications.
IMPROVEMENTS: the release contains dozens of improvements to existing capabilities, including: hatch coloring, easy selection of overlapped objects, toolbar resizing, smoother text explosion, find/replace text, and over 25 additions to the API.
CONTINUED STABILITY: stability remains a top priority for ZWCAD and this release contains dozens of fixes and, was rigorously tested, and achieved a stability rating of over 99.84% on 1270 customer-submitted drawings that previously caused crashes.

Sneak Peek of New Features

DATA EXTRACTION

Users can extract properties and data from objects to a drawing table or export to a spreadsheet

LISP DEBUGGER

Developers can visually and interactively debug their LISP customizations and applications

MANAGE PDF OVERLAYS

From a single dialog box, users can attach, detach, open, or check the attributes of PDF Underlays

ANNOTATION SCALE LIST RESET

The system will notify users when an excess of annotation scales in a set of drawings is degrading performance and allow for a list reset to remove unused scales and improve performance.

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