

Today, its line of CAD software is sold by dealers in 80 countries to 320,000 customers. More recently, the company release ZWCAD Mechanical, an add-on for doing 2D mechanical design. ZWSOFT renamed VX "ZW3D," and then put it through an aggressive upgrade schedule. The company made in 2010 the surprising move of purchasing VX of Florida, USA, a firm best known for its CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) software. And so in 2012 they delivered ZWCAD+ 2012- the '+' indicating the new code base.Īll along, ZWSOFT emphasized ZWCAD's compatibility with AutoCAD - the subject of this article.

Like many other reasonably-priced CAD packages, ZWCAD was for a time based on IntelliCAD, but then the company rewrote the code to make it faster. ZWSOFT has been over the last decade working diligently to produce a respectable AutoCAD workalike.
