ZWCAD Advancements Timeline – 2017 to 2021

For customers considering upgrading to ZWCAD 2020, below is a list of ZWCAD advancements since 2017.

It is designed to help you understand the "grand total" of advancements that you will gain from your upgrade – for example, if you are upgrading from 2015 or earlier, you will gain the entire list.

Thanks much.

The ZWDirect Team
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=> ZWCAD 2021 Advancements

1. Unprecedented Speed – 30% from upgraded graphics engine
2. Smoother Operation for 4K displays
3. External Reference Manager
4. Transparency Effects
5. Viewport Layers
6. Formulas in Fields
7. Formulas in Tables
8. Customizable Mouse Actions
9. New API Commands and System Variables
10. Continued Stability

=> ZWCAD 2020 Advancements

1. Unprecedented Speed – 150% faster on most common commands
2. Manage PDF Overlays
3. Annotation Scale List Reset
4. Data Extraction
5. Hatch Coloring
6. Selection of Overlapped Objects
7. Toolbar Resizing
8. Find/Replace Text 
9. LISP Debugger and Expanded API
10. Continued Stability

​=> ZWCAD 2019 Advancements

1. Create and Edit Dynamic Blocks
2. PDF/DWFx Underlays
3. Annotative Object – auto-size annotations for readability
4. Custom Color Scheme
5. Layer Properties Manager Palette
6. Smart Plotting – batch plot multiple frames
7. Z-Axis Polar Tracking
8. Dozens of additional new tools – XREF Change Notice, Block Preview, more
9. Expanded API – over 400 new ZRX and VBA commands
10. Increased stability and performance – over 2000 fixes, 10-50% faster on common commands

=> ZWCAD 2018 Advancements

1. Optimized User Interface – dark theme, 4K resolution, full customization
2. DWG/DXF 2018 Read/Write
3. Dynamic Block Editing
4. Dynamic Input – enter command values at cursor
5. Design Center – dashboard for all design resources
6. Support for 3 New Plotter Types – EPS, SHPGL/LHPGL, SVP
7. Integrated Calculator
8. Dozens of additional new tools – Helix/Pyramid Objects, 3D-to-2D Projection, Hatch Boundry Grips, HighRes Image Management, and more
9. Expanded API – supports LISP (with compiler), VBA, ZRX and .NET interfaces
10. Increased performance and stability – up to 146% faster
    
    

=> ZWCAD 2017 Advancements

1. Modern, Ribbon-based User Interface
2. Support for the DWG and DGN (MicroStation)
3. Publish to DWF
4. File Compare
5. Smart Mouse/Voice
6. Command Previews – for Selection and Undo/Redo
7. 3D Modeling Dynamic Preview
8. Dozens of additional new tools – Align Objects, Advanced Grips Editing, QRcode and Barcode, and more
9. Expanded API – support for VBA and .NET
10. Improved performance and stability – support for 64bit technology boosts speeds by 40% or more