El motor principal de ZWCAD esta basado en la ultima tecnologia de IntelliCAD (www.intellicad.org), una poderosa plataforma de aplicaciones de diseño que tiene derechos sobre el motor de dibujo de los archivos DWG, ZWCAD usa archivos nativos DWG, por lo tanto ofrece una compatibilidad 100% confiable con AutoCAD® desde la version 2.5 hasta la 2009.
La siguiente tabla compara las principales funciones de ZWCAD y AutoCAD ®.
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ZWCAD 2009 |
AutoCAD®2009 |
AutoCAD®2009 LT |
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Compatibility |
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Native DWG & DXF Support |
2.5~2009 |
2.5~2009 |
2.5~2009 |
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AutoCAD® Command |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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AutoCAD® Menu(.mnu)& Alias Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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TTF & SHX Font Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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AutoCAD® 3D Surface |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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ACIS 3D Solid |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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AutoLisp ( including DCL) |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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AutoCAD® Development System（ADS） |
SDS (similar to ADS) |
Yes |
No |
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VBA Included |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Object ARX |
DRX(similar to ARX) |
Yes |
No |
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Advanced Features |
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Publish |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Entity Snap Tracking |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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True Color System |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Design Center |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Tool Palettes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Quick Calculator |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Hatch-clip |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Gradient Hatch |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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CTB and STB Plot Style |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Explorer（Layers, Blocks, Linetypes） |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Unlimited Undo/Redo |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Right-click Customization |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Menu, Toolbar & Alias Customization |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Polygonal Viewports in Layouts |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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ActiveX In-place Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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External Reference |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Xref, In-place Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Quick Select |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Quick Dimension |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Raster Image |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Multilines & Multiline Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Filter |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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eTransmit |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Unique Features |
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Batch Plot（pltplot） |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Block Extraction |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Image with TFW coordinate file |
Yes |
No |
No |