ZWCAD Standard vs Professional
Features
Files support
DWG R14/2000/2004/2007/2010/2013
DXF R12/2000/2004/2007/2010/2013
DWG/DXF 2018
DWT support
Standard
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Professional
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User interaction
Lasso Selection
Adaptive Grid
Classic menu and toolbar
Command auto complete
Customize User Interface (CUI)
Design Center
Drawing tab switching
Dynamic Input
Dynamic UCS
Floating document tab
Multi-thread CPU speed up
Partial CUI
Panel navigation indicator
Properties Palette
Ribbon interfaces
Tool Palettes
Transparent Command in Dynamic Input
Standard
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Professional
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2D drawing and annotation
Enhanced coordinate dimensions
Annotative dimensions
Associative dimensions
Enhanced grip editing menu
Field
Hatch/Gradient Hatch
Leader & Mleader
MleaderAlign
Pline and Hatch Boundary Grips
Revcloud
Super Hatch
Table & Table styles
Text and Mtext
Text in-place editing
Layers
Layer Properties Manager (classic)
Layer Properties Manager (Panel)
Layer States Manager
Layer filter
Layer Walk
Layer Merge
Layer Browser
Viewport Layer
Xref,Block and Attribute
Attribute
Block align
Block editor
Block replace
DGN Underlay
DGN Export
DGN Import
DWF underlay
DWFx underlay
Dynamic Block
External Reference Manager
Multiple block inserting
OLE
PDF underlaly
Rater Images
Xrefs
CTB & STB plot styles
Export
Mvsetup
Shade Plot
Smart Plot (Batch Plot)
Plot to SVG
Plotting
Publish DWF/DWFx
Publish PDF
3D modeling and visulization
3D Orbit
ACIS viewing
3D modeling & editing
Rendering
Solprof
Visual styles (Hide & Shade)
Z axis tracking
STL export
IFC Import
STEP Import
3D Gizmos
Tools
Quick Properties Panel
Point Cloud
Area Table
GIS Module
Sheetset Manager
Cloud Storage
3Dmouse
Associative Array
CAD Standard
Datalink
Dataextraction
DGN Purge
Digital signature for dwfx drawings
Digital signature for dwg drawings
Etransmit
File Compare
Formula apply to table
Group
Lockup & Unlock
Match properties (cross drawings)
Multiple Undo/Redo
Quick Calculator
Quick select
Raster image vectorization
Region
Settings Migration
Smart mouse
Smart select
Smart voice
Undo/Redo Preview
Layout Export
Application Programming Interfaces
ActiveX, including in-place editing
Full LISP with vl-, vlr-, vla- and vlax- support
Lisp Debugger
DCL engine
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA 32/64-bit)
Runtime extension (ZRX/ARX)
.NET
Standard
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Standard
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Standard
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Standard
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Standard
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Standard
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Standard
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Professional
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Professional
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Professional
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(7)
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Professional
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Professional
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Professional
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Professional
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(1) ZWCAD provides a FormatConverter to convert DWG 2018 to lower format.
(2) ZWCAD’s Block Editor is able to modify non-dynamic blocks only.
(3) Version before ZWCAD 2021 also have external reference manager,however each type of reference file will have one manager. In ZWCAD 2021 all managers have been integrated in one panel.
(4) ZWCAD can use dynamic block, but not allow to create or modify dynamic block for now;
(5) ZWCAD 2018/2017/2015+/2014+ are able to publish to DWF but not DWFx file.
(6) Lower ZWCAD version have Array function but without associative property and no able to control array by the grips.
(7) ZWCAD have a function called “Flexiblock” AutoCAD function name “Dynamic Block”, the way to create, edit, use flexiblock is exactly the same as dynamic blcok.
(*) ZWCAD 2019/2018/2017/2015+/2014+ do not support hatch grip edit.