ZWCAD2008 Worldwide Release January 22, 2008

After an extensive and elaborate development period, ZWCAD is pleased to announce that ZWCAD2008 will be available worldwide on January 22, 2008. Its debut delivers the highest levels of customer satisfaction, productivity, and the ability to bring your creative ideas to life. We hope that you really enjoy our latest achievements, where we have focused on updating features for improved flexibility, efficiency, increased speed, and seamless DWG compatibility.

The 2008 version delivers a host of improved functionality, which includes:

Increased Speed
-Speed of boundary search has been increased about 15 times.
-Speeds of Select and Performance of Multiple Viewports in layout have been increased at least 10 times.

Easy to Use
-ZWCAD provides seamless DWG compatibility with AutoCAD. You can easily transfer custom AutoCAD environments into ZWCAD and continue to work in your favorite drafting environment.

Better APIs
-With more powerful APIs, ZWCAD2008 supports 80 percent of the Visual Lisp functions and provides a new programming interface – DRX. With increased APIs, you can easily develop your own applications more efficiently.

Other new enhancements include:
-Updated Design Center
-Quick Calculator
-Merge Print
-Attribute Extraction
-Block Extraction
-Dimension Replace

We strongly recommend that you upgrade to ZWCAD2008, to share the intelligence and efficiency of the top-ranked technology.

A free trial of the application will be available online at www.zwcad.org .
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us:

Business: sales@zwcad.com
Technical Support: tech@zwcad.com
or contact your local dealer.

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Tutorial 18 Quick Calculator
The QuickCalc includes basic features similar to most standard mathematical calculators. In addition, QuickCalc has features specific to ZWCAD, such as geometric functions, scientific functions, a Variables area, a Units Conversion area and a Text Calculate area.

Comparing to general calculators, QuickCalc is an expression builder. For greater flexibility, it does not immediately calculate an answer when you click a function. Instead, you compose an expression that you can easily edit it, when you are finished, you click the equal sign (=) or press ENTER. Later, you can retrieve the expression from the History area, modify it, and recalculate the results.

• Open ZWCAD and select the calculator button on the standard toolbar.
• Command: QUICKCALC

The calculator dialog will be opened up.

The History Window

• In the history window, history is stored. You can check all your records easily. And not only you can see the result of the expression, but also you can also how you arrived at that result.
• Point to the expression in the history window, the whole expression appears
• Select the expression in the history window, and double-click. It is allowed to modify the expression and recalculate.

Use Calculator in the work

1. Text Calculate
Text calculate is the best function for me, I can save a lot of operation, I only need to pick the text value, then I can do kinds of simple calculation.

Text Calculate	Offset and calculation by Variable expression

2. Offset and calculation by Variable expression
With the calculator built in ZWCAD, I can make my work easier, for example, if I want to offset a rectangle, and the length of the existing line in the drawing = the value I should offset. This is an easy work for me now.

• Use dee to calculate the distance of the line
• Command: offset
• Enter
• Press the button ‘Paste value to command line
• Enter
• Then you can offset the rectangle as you want.

It is only a small example, try it, you can find more tips about the Calculator built in ZWCAD.

The demonstration of the basic operation of Calculator,please press the link as below.

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