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The library has an interface that I found easy to understand: on the left side, the explorer view lists all the parts available in the library on the right hand side, the view shows the part dimensions. I was pleased to see that ZWCAD Mechanical comes with an exhaustive library of mechanical parts. To review the functions of ZWCAD Mechanical in greater detail, I decided to concentrate on the following areas: In addition to the ribbon, mechanical CAD related functions can be accessed from tool bars these can be customized to the user’s preference. A variety of 2D views can be generated, according to the job requirements.

Functions on the Mechanical Drawing tab build up mechanical parts and to do additions or modifications, as necessary, including accessing its exhaustive library of mechanical parts.

This tab also provides access to the BOM (bill of materials) function.

The Mechanical Design tab contains functions related to drawing set up and drawing representation entities, such as leaders, annotations, surface textures, weld symbols, and hole markings.

(See figure 1.)įigure 1: A sample project in ZWCAD Mechanical The mechanical CAD-related functions are accessed from two extra ribbon tabs, Mechanical Design and Mechanical Drawing. ZWCAD Mechanical provides a library of commonly used mechanical parts. For instance, the graphical user interface and the function names are similar to those of AutoCAD AutoCAD users would require hardly any training to get used to ZWCAD Mechanical.

The learning curve seems easy for operators already familiar with other CAD environments. (To get 3D objects, users would use ZWCAD’s native 3D commands, or else acquire ZWSOFT’s ZW3D CAM/CAM software.) For simple day-to-day work, these 2D representations should be sufficient, especially when used with the extensive Parts Library included with the software. It is important to point out that none of the parts drawn by ZWCAD Mechanical are drawn in 3D rather, this software produces 2D representations of mechanical parts, just like AutoCAD Mechanical. Note that ZWCAD is a 32-bit application, and so might not take full advantage of 64-bit computers. The suffix (ENU = Europe, in this case) represents the localized environment where ZWCAD Mechanical is installed. In ZWCAD, the mechanical workspace is set up automatically by the installation process, which defaults to the profile named zwcadm_ENU. It installs the vanilla ZWCAD+ version along with the mechanical add-on. Because Ralph Grabowski provided a detailed overview of the ZWCAD+ base application in I’ll jump directly onto the mechanical design aspects of the application. ZWSOFT recently launched a mechanical flavor, naming it ZWCAD Mechanical. As a CAD application developed in China by ZWSOFT, ZWCAD has slowly made its presence noticeable over the past decade.