ZWCAD

[Swarf MakerParticipant @swarfmaker85383]

Seeing as how we seem to be having a CAD heavy time on the forum at the moment, has anybody come across, or had experience of ZWCAD from ZWSoft?

I only came across it as a consequence of a customer requirement.

Seems to have a 2D bias but also has perpetual licenses for a mechanical engineering version. I don't have the time to dedicate to the free trial, but some of you may be tempted – although it may ignite the fuse for further Chinese product discussion!

[Swarf MakerParticipant @swarfmaker85383]

[Gary WoodingParticipant @garywooding25363]

Since nobody has answered (yet), I haven't tried it and have no intension of doing so. I'll give my views based solely on ZWSoft's website.

It seems to have a very cumbersome user interface that provides very little to justify the prices I saw. The sketching environments for all the parametric CAD systems I've tried provide far superior facilities to the non-parametric sketching of ZWCAD. Once you've tried parametric CAD you'll never want anything else.

As I've mentioned in other posts, ALL CAD systems have a steep leaning curve, so don't waste your time on learning a non-parametric CAD system. YMMV

[BazParticipant @baz89810]

Curiosity got the better of me and I had a look at the prices, they are having a laugh.

[Swarf MakerParticipant @swarfmaker85383]

Thanks Gary & Baz, you can see why I didn't waste time on it also! I was more curious as to whether anybody on the forum had been involved with it at any stage. In some ways it is an unusual product in today's market.

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