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Integrated 3D CAD/CAM Solution Powered by

Self-Developed 3D Geometric Modeling Kernel

Designed for the whole process of product development

Featuring the fastest kernel for Solid-Surface Hybrid Modeling, non-solid mold parting, and smart CNC machining strategies from 2-axis to 5-axis

Powerful Translator to Maximize Data Reuse

ZW3D supports translating non-native CAD data of different 3D modeling systems
CAD data exchange with multiple suppliers becomes so easy

Innovative Solid-Surface Hybrid Modeling to Maximize Design Flexibility

Based on innovational Solid-Surface Hybrid Modeling technology,
users can make Boolean operations for surface parts directly with solid geometries

Advanced Assembly Functions to Boost Productivity

• Abundant tools can help handle your complex assemblies via both top-down and bottom-up design. You can flexibly assemble, manage, and edit the components, view different status, update associated models, etc.
• Reliable verification tools can help ensure the manufacturability of your design

Automatic 2D Drafting and Smart PMI Tools to Optimize Your Workflow

• 2D drawings, with detailed information of dimensions, tolerances and annotations, can be easily created for manufacturing and inspection. Plus, they can be updated automatically as models or assemblies change.
• PMI tools allow you to make dimensions and annotations intuitively on 3D entities, making design collaboration a piece of cake.

Powerful Repairing for Guaranteed Data Quality

Various geometric topological states, such as repeated surfaces and open edges can be accurately analyzed and repaired.
With geometric gaps efficiently filled and missing surfaces rebuilt, a complete solid model is ready to ensure data quality.

Abundant Library of Mold Bases & Components with Different Standards

The built-in library of mold bases and standard parts can be modified and personalized, meeting the requirements of different countries and companies.

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Fast Core-Cavity Parting to Accelerate Mold Design

• Parts can be split directly through parting lines or parting faces, which can be created automatically, saving your time for model healing.
• Multi-cavity design is supported to meet various design demands of different products.

Specialized Tools for Detailed Mold Design

Specialized tools are provided to quickly create runners, cooling systems, slides, and gates, which can also be easily and intuitively modified.

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Efficient Solutions for Complex Electrode Design

• Easy-to-use electrode extract tools allow you to deal with complex electrodes quickly.
• Electrodes and 2D sheets can be correctly created in batches to save your time.

Intelligent 2-Axis Milling

Hole & 2-Axis Tactics can help generate manufacturable toolpaths automatically, cutting programming time by 70%.

ZW3D Features

Piping Design Module

With this newly added module, it is more convenient than ever to design pipes with flexible routing ways, a vivid display of flow direction, rigorous specifications, powerful editing functions, etc. (not available in some countries/regions)

Layer Manager

Quickly sort and organize model features in 3D: easily arrange layers via the Category attribute; control and edit layers with the Filter and Select Object in Layer functions.

Batch Rename

You can modify part names in batches with Rename Assembly without changing the assembly structure to rapidly morph serialized assembly items.

Sketch Block

Turn objects into sketch blocks and create new objects by inserting blocks and quickly changing their sizes.

Customize Features

Create one feature with all features of some geometries so that you can easily reuse features and avoid repetitive work.

Flexible Sub-Assembly

By changing the degrees of freedom of the sub-assembly in the general assembly, you can continue changing the sub-assembly components with DOF in the general assembly.

3D Sketch

Objects in a 3D sketch are three-dimensional, can be captured or constrained, and support the use of Intelligent Point Reference. You can directly use 3D sketches as contours, paths, curves, etc. for modeling.

Intelligent Design Tools

Raster images can be embossed on the surface of your model nice and quick with the Emboss command. Morph and Winding can be used for objects, surfaces, and STL models.

(Dis)assembly of Sub-Assemblies

You can disassemble and drag the sub-assembly components, turn components into a sub-assembly, or save the sub-assembly as a new file or new object.

PMI Annotation

You can add annotations to the 3D model. All the PMI objects can be listed in the view manager and directly exported to 2D engineering drawings.

Manufacturability Analysis

You can check and verify the manufacturability of product structures with tools such as Draft Analysis, Thickness Analysis, and Undercut Analysis. Also, intuitive analysis.

Sheet Metal Design

Complex sheet metal design can be completed with Bend, Loft, Louver, Punch, etc. The imported files can be converted into sheet metal parts for unfolding, bending, or design. The advanced FastBlank functions allow you to generate the unfolded effect.

Fast Parting

The core, cavity, and other areas can be defined through parting lines or parting faces. Various handy tools are available for holes and parting faces creation, making it simple and clear to transform from the product to core and cavity.

Reverse Engineering

Prepare point cloud data for surface generation by deleting, trimming, dividing, simplifying the imported point cloud. A perfect mesh can be created from the processed point cloud and automatically converted into a NURBS surface.

Specialized Tools for Mold Design

Specialized tools are provided to quickly create runners, cooling systems, slide and groove, which can also be easily and intuitively modified.

Geometry Healing

Analyze and quickly repair abnormal conditions (e.g. open edges, gaps, duplicate faces, intersection loops) found in the geometry of imported files.

3D BOM

The attribute information of all parts can be displayed in rows and columns of a 3D BOM, edited, and directly exported to 2D engineering drawings.

Automatic Annotation

Efficiently generate linear/diameter/radius/hole dimensions and so on with all the objects in a view or annotate the selected objects.

Data Repair

Accurately analyze and repair various geometric topological issues, including cracks, open edges, etc. Efficiently process model gaps and reconstruct missing faces to ensure a complete model and data quality.

Mold Standard Parts Library

The built-in library of mainstream mold bases and standard parts (MISUMI/FUTABA/HASCO/DME/LKM, etc.) are provided and user can create and customize their own standard part library.

Auto Mold Drafting

Mold attributes can be automatically recognized. The engineering drawings of all components can be generated effortlessly according to the predefined type template while dimensions can be automatically added according to custom settings.

Sheet Metal Design

Complex sheet metal design can be completed with Bend, Loft, Louver, Punch, etc. The imported files can be converted into sheet metal parts for unfolding, bending, or design. The advanced FastBlank functions allow you to generate the unfolded effect.

Electrode Design

There are multiple ways to create electrodes. Functions such as bills of electrodes, electrode engraving, automatically generating electrode drawings, etc. can facilitate your electrode design.

2-Axis Machining

Features such as holes, grooves, and steps in parts can be automatically recognized so that efficient drilling programs and milling toolpaths can be generated according to user needs, greatly reducing your programming time.

Superior Roughing Strategies

Volumill™ for ZW3D can help generate optimized toolpaths with 50%-80% machining cycle time saved. Plus, the full depth of cutters can be used, sparing costs of cutting tools up to 75%.

3-Axis Milling

Over 40 types of 3X machining operations are available so that you can deal with all kinds of manufacturing work at ease. With QuickMilling, smooth toolpaths can be easily generated to guarantee high-quality surfaces.

5-Axis Milling

A complete solution for indexing and 4 to 5-axis machining that can work with STL files is available. You can make efficient use of functions like Swarf, Drive Curve, Flow Cut, etc. to produce fine components.

Turning

Inside and outside Roughing, Finishing, Grooving, Threading, Facing, and Drilling are easy to use and useful for handling most turned parts. Turning cycles, simulation, and verification expedite the switch from manual programming and machining safely.

Toolpath Editor

Get better toolpaths, improve machining efficiency, and avoid tedious parameter adjustments and toolpath re-calculation. The entire or partial toolpaths can be edited flexibly with tools like Trim, Re-order, Re-link, Extend and Transform.

Simulation and Verification

Wireframe Simulation, Solid Verify, and Full Machine Simulation can realize reliable, efficient, and safe machining by detecting collisions, analyzing residue, etc. to avoid damaged machines, poor quality, and delayed delivery.

Post Processing

ZW3D comes with more than 80 default post-processors that work with all kinds of CNC milling and turning machines. Professional and localized post-processing support is at your service.

Tool Path Editor

Solid Verification

ZW3D Post Processor

3-Axis QuickMill™

2D Sketch

Freeform surface model tools

Library design

Geometry Healing

Shape Morphing, Wrapping and Flex Tools

Direct Editing

Real View and Model Analysis

Hybrid 3D Shape & Feature Modeling

CAD data

Select Your ZW3D Package:

Lite

Standard

Tutorial system

3D model file

3D Wireframe and Sketch

Assembly Design

2D Views, BOM/Hole Tables

Links to KeyShot, FEA, Traceparts and so on

Assembly & Animation

Sheet Metal Design

PMI

Professional

2-Axis Machining

3-Axis Machining

Premium

Weldment Design

Reverse Engineering - Point Cloud

Electrodes Design

Mold Design

2-Axis Turning

SmoothFlow™ Adaptive Feedrate Control

2-Axis Milling

Hole Making

Auto-feature Tactics

CAM Manufacturing

Add-on Module - ECAD (Optional purchase, not available in some countries/regions)

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ZW3D

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Integrated 3D CAD/CAM Solution Powered by

Self-Developed 3D Geometric Modeling Kernel

​

Powerful Translator to Maximize Data Reuse

Innovative Solid-Surface Hybrid Modeling to Maximize Design Flexibility

Advanced Assembly Functions to Boost Productivity

Automatic 2D Drafting and Smart PMI Tools to Optimize Your Workflow

Powerful Repairing for Guaranteed Data Quality

Abundant Library of Mold Bases & Components with Different Standards

Fast Core-Cavity Parting to Accelerate Mold Design

Specialized Tools for Detailed Mold Design

Efficient Solutions for Complex Electrode Design

Intelligent 2-Axis Milling

ZW3D Features

Piping Design Module

With this newly added module, it is more convenient than ever to design pipes with flexible routing ways, a vivid display of flow direction, rigorous specifications, powerful editing functions, etc. (not available in some countries/regions)

Layer Manager

Quickly sort and organize model features in 3D: easily arrange layers via the Category attribute; control and edit layers with the Filter and Select Object in Layer functions.

Batch Rename

You can modify part names in batches with Rename Assembly without changing the assembly structure to rapidly morph serialized assembly items.

Sketch Block

Turn objects into sketch blocks and create new objects by inserting blocks and quickly changing their sizes.

Customize Features

Create one feature with all features of some geometries so that you can easily reuse features and avoid repetitive work.

Flexible Sub-Assembly

By changing the degrees of freedom of the sub-assembly in the general assembly, you can continue changing the sub-assembly components with DOF in the general assembly.

3D Sketch

Objects in a 3D sketch are three-dimensional, can be captured or constrained, and support the use of Intelligent Point Reference. You can directly use 3D sketches as contours, paths, curves, etc. for modeling.

Intelligent Design Tools

Raster images can be embossed on the surface of your model nice and quick with the Emboss command. Morph and Winding can be used for objects, surfaces, and STL models.

(Dis)assembly of Sub-Assemblies

You can disassemble and drag the sub-assembly components, turn components into a sub-assembly, or save the sub-assembly as a new file or new object.

PMI Annotation

You can add annotations to the 3D model. All the PMI objects can be listed in the view manager and directly exported to 2D engineering drawings.

Manufacturability Analysis

You can check and verify the manufacturability of product structures with tools such as Draft Analysis, Thickness Analysis, and Undercut Analysis. Also, intuitive analysis.

Sheet Metal Design

Complex sheet metal design can be completed with Bend, Loft, Louver, Punch, etc. The imported files can be converted into sheet metal parts for unfolding, bending, or design. The advanced FastBlank functions allow you to generate the unfolded effect.

Fast Parting

The core, cavity, and other areas can be defined through parting lines or parting faces. Various handy tools are available for holes and parting faces creation, making it simple and clear to transform from the product to core and cavity.

Reverse Engineering

Prepare point cloud data for surface generation by deleting, trimming, dividing, simplifying the imported point cloud. A perfect mesh can be created from the processed point cloud and automatically converted into a NURBS surface.

Specialized Tools for Mold Design

Specialized tools are provided to quickly create runners, cooling systems, slide and groove, which can also be easily and intuitively modified.

Geometry Healing

Analyze and quickly repair abnormal conditions (e.g. open edges, gaps, duplicate faces, intersection loops) found in the geometry of imported files.

3D BOM

The attribute information of all parts can be displayed in rows and columns of a 3D BOM, edited, and directly exported to 2D engineering drawings.

Automatic Annotation

Efficiently generate linear/diameter/radius/hole dimensions and so on with all the objects in a view or annotate the selected objects.

Data Repair

Accurately analyze and repair various geometric topological issues, including cracks, open edges, etc. Efficiently process model gaps and reconstruct missing faces to ensure a complete model and data quality.

Mold Standard Parts Library

The built-in library of mainstream mold bases and standard parts (MISUMI/FUTABA/HASCO/DME/LKM, etc.) are provided and user can create and customize their own standard part library.

Auto Mold Drafting

Mold attributes can be automatically recognized. The engineering drawings of all components can be generated effortlessly according to the predefined type template while dimensions can be automatically added according to custom settings.

Sheet Metal Design

Complex sheet metal design can be completed with Bend, Loft, Louver, Punch, etc. The imported files can be converted into sheet metal parts for unfolding, bending, or design. The advanced FastBlank functions allow you to generate the unfolded effect.

Electrode Design

There are multiple ways to create electrodes. Functions such as bills of electrodes, electrode engraving, automatically generating electrode drawings, etc. can facilitate your electrode design.

2-Axis Machining

Features such as holes, grooves, and steps in parts can be automatically recognized so that efficient drilling programs and milling toolpaths can be generated according to user needs, greatly reducing your programming time.

Superior Roughing Strategies

Volumill™ for ZW3D can help generate optimized toolpaths with 50%-80% machining cycle time saved. Plus, the full depth of cutters can be used, sparing costs of cutting tools up to 75%.

3-Axis Milling

Over 40 types of 3X machining operations are available so that you can deal with all kinds of manufacturing work at ease. With QuickMilling, smooth toolpaths can be easily generated to guarantee high-quality surfaces.

5-Axis Milling

A complete solution for indexing and 4 to 5-axis machining that can work with STL files is available. You can make efficient use of functions like Swarf, Drive Curve, Flow Cut, etc. to produce fine components.

Turning

Inside and outside Roughing, Finishing, Grooving, Threading, Facing, and Drilling are easy to use and useful for handling most turned parts. Turning cycles, simulation, and verification expedite the switch from manual programming and machining safely.

Toolpath Editor

Get better toolpaths, improve machining efficiency, and avoid tedious parameter adjustments and toolpath re-calculation. The entire or partial toolpaths can be edited flexibly with tools like Trim, Re-order, Re-link, Extend and Transform.

Simulation and Verification

Wireframe Simulation, Solid Verify, and Full Machine Simulation can realize reliable, efficient, and safe machining by detecting collisions, analyzing residue, etc. to avoid damaged machines, poor quality, and delayed delivery.

Post Processing

ZW3D comes with more than 80 default post-processors that work with all kinds of CNC milling and turning machines. Professional and localized post-processing support is at your service.

Tool Path Editor