GUANGZHOU, China, Dec 5, 2017 – ZW3D, one of the world’s leading suppliers of advanced CAD/CAM solutions for the manufacturing industry, today announced the global availability of ZW3D 2018, which is positioned as a CAD&CAM expert with enhanced performance and user-friendliness from design to manufacturing.

Enhanced Layer Manager and Part Attribute

When the product design is getting increasingly complex, classifying the shapes or components by layer and setting the information quickly by intuitional part attribute form are become important in the design process.

In ZW3D 2018, layer manager gets easier to use. It provides a new “Category” attribute to layers so that users can group layers and have more interactions between manager and entities inside the graphics area.

And the upgraded part attribute Form helps designers to manage all part attributes more easily, including standard attributes and user attributes, which can be edited in Excel or shared by Excel file.

PMI Improvements

More tools are provided for 3D annotation, such as chamfer, hole callout and bounding tools. Linear dimension becomes more flexible supporting auto/horizontal/vertical methods. It’s easier for designers to get richer dimensions and annotations on 3D models.

MISUMI Library Integration

Empowered by MISUMI Mold Ex Press, a 3D CAD library for standard components of press die and plastic mold, users can quickly select and locate the parts from more than10, 000 types of part models, reducing mold design time by 50%.

Upgraded CAM Features

5-axis strategies capability is expanded on 5X plane, side and ISO cut operations. End-users now can happily generate multiple layers of tool-path in one shot, particularly 5-axis roughing in specific cases. Also, customized frame function is supported in Flat Finish operation that further simplifies programming.

“ZW3D 2018 is a complete solution that brings your idea to design and manufacturing easier,” said Joh Li, CTO of ZW3D in charge of R&D center. “We keep working on providing streamlined workflows to reduce errors and waste, which helps our customers to output products faster with higher quality and lower cost.”

About ZW3D CAD/CAM

ZW3D, an integrated CAD/CAM solution designed for the complete product development process, features the fastest kernel for solid-surface hybrid modeling, non-solid mold parting and smart CNC machining tactics from 2-axis to 5-axis. It brings customers endless benefits such as reduced costs, optimized design workflow and improved efficiency.

For more information, visit http://www.zwsoft.com.