ZwCAD 2008

Performance Improvement

1. Speed is highly improved

Make a great promotion in performance, especially opening or saving a drawing, creating a hatch with complex boundaries, editing in layout with multiple viewports or selecting a huge number of objects, which will make your work more efficient.

Speed of Open function has been increased about 30%. Speed of Save function has been increased about 70%. Speed of Select function has been increased about 10 times. Performance of Multiple Viewports in layout has been increased about 10 times.

2. Bran-new efficient arithmetic for hatch boundary search

A bran-new efficient arithmetic is applied to searching complex hatch boundaries, it means less calculation and faster response even under a great deal of objects. Furthermore, it can also deal the unclose boundaries in some diseased drawings automatically. Now hatch is a more convenient work for you.

• Speed of boundary search is improved about 15 times.

New Features

Improved Design Center 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 more conveniently.

4. Attribute extraction

You can extract the attribute information from attribute block into an external file. Attribute extraction is a practical function to generate list of materials directly from your attribute blocks. There is a wizard for you to extract step by step, when you save the file, there are several formats for you to choose, while .csv, .xls, .mdb, .txt file formats are provided. It is a good way to extract information of the attribute blocks as a list; especially there are a lot of attribute blocks in the drawing.

5. Block Extraction

With this function, you can pick every block in the drawing and export as another drawing directly, at the same time, the attribute information can be export as a list.

6. Dimension Replace

With Dimreplace function, you can have a batch change of dimension’s value easier, especially in the large drawings; it will be finished just after specifying the “value of replace” and “target value”.

Better APIs

1. DRX support

DRX programming interface (similar to ARX in AutoCAD?) is provided, with the new programming interface, you can develop your own application in another way as you like. It makes migration of ARX application possible (Customized entity is not support in current version).

2. Visual lisp Support

ZWCAD 2008 supports 80% of the Visual lisp functions now.

3. Encrypt lisp applications

Encrypt lisp is available to keep author’s program as confidential. In ZWCAD 2008, there are two modes for encryption (AES and 3AES). You can not only encrypt several lisp files at one time, but also create backups or use different extensions for the encrypted files.

Easy To Use

1. Different color towards selection areas

ZWCAD2008 separate the areas selected or unselected obviously, there is different color display, according to different window selection from right to left or from left to right. It can distinguish selection areas easier.

2. Dynamic prompt

Dynamic prompt provide tooltips display information near the cursor which is dynamically updated when you are using different command or item. Besides, when a command is active, the tooltips provide a list of all possible commands near the cursor. It allows you to specify one quickly before you inputting the whole command.