ZWSOFT | 2017/1/5

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Contents Main Features .............................................................................................................................................. 2

1. Supported OS .............................................................................................................................. 2

2. Supported File Format ............................................................................................................ 3

3. Display CAD Entities & Objects ........................................................................................... 3

4. Create CAD Entities .................................................................................................................. 3

5. Create CAD Objects ................................................................................................................... 4

6. Supported Commands ............................................................................................................. 4

Bug Fixed: ...................................................................................................................................................... 5

Known issues: .............................................................................................................................................. 5

Appendix ........................................................................................................................................................ 6

A-1. Create CAD Entities .............................................................................................................. 6

A-2. Create CAD Objects ............................................................................................................... 8

A-3. Command List ......................................................................................................................... 8

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ZWCAD for Mac & Linux Preview5 Release Note

Linux: VERNUM=2016.12.23(2217)_Linux_64_V10.1

Mac: VERNUM=2016.12.23(2217)_Mac_V10.1

It’s been almost seven months since the last time we released ZWCAD for Mac & Linux

Preview4 versions, here I am very glad to inform you that the Preview5 versions are finally

available today.

ZWCAD for Mac & Linux preview5 versions become much more stable and they provide

many more commands and features compared with previous versions. 165 commands are

newly added and now the new ZWCAD supports 343 commands in Mac version and 340

commands in Linux version.

For more details, please check the chapters below:

Main Features

1. Supported OS

Verified Operating Systems are listed as below:

Mac OSX Linux

Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite

Mac OS X 10.11 EI Capitan

Deepin 2014.3

CentOS 7

Fedora 21

Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon

Ubuntu 14.04

NeoKylin 6.0

Note: 1. ZWCAD for Linux supports 64 bite operating system only. 2. Do not install ZWCAD for Linux under “SUDO” permission.

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2. Supported File Format

OPEN: DWG files form version R14 to 2013 DXF files from version 2000 to 2013 DWT files form version 2000 to 2013 SAVE: DWG files form version R14 to 2013 DXF files form version R14 to 2013

3. Display CAD Entities & Objects

Most of the plain CAD entities can be displayed correctly in this version, the supported CAD entities are listed as below:

Basic Geometry Entities POINT, RAY, XLINE, LINE, ARC, CIRCLE, 2DPOLYLINE, LWPOLYLINE, 3DPOLYLINE, ELLIPSE, SHAPE, SOLID, SPLINE, TRACE

Annotative Entities TEXT, MTEXT, ARCTEXT, ATTDEF, ATTRIBUTE, FIELD, TOLERANCE, HATCH, GRADIENT, MLEADER, TABLE, LEADER, 2LINEANGULARDIMENSION, 3POINTANGULARDIMENSION, ALIGNEDDIMENSION, ARCDIMENSION, DIAMETRICDIMENSION, ORDINATEDIMENSION, RADIALDIMENSION, RADIALDIMENSIONLARGE, ROTATEDDIMENSION, WIPEOUT, VIEWPORT

Complex Entities INSERT, MINSERT, MLINE, XREF, IMAGE, DGNUNDERLAY, DWFUNDERLAY, PDFUNDERLAY

3D Solid/Mesh/Surface HELIX, REGION, 3DFACE, BODY, 3DSOLID, SURFACE, EXTRUDEDSURFACE, LOFTEDSURFACE, PLANESURFACE, REVOLVEDSURFACE, SWEPTSURFACE, SURFBLEND, SURFFILLET, SURFNETWORK, SURFOFFSET, SURFPATCH, MESH, PFACEMESH, POLYGONMESH, SECTION

Note: There are 5 kinds of entities which can’t display correctly so far: OLE, CAMERA, LIGHT, SUN, DGNUNDERLAY, DWFUNDERLAY and PDFUNDERLAY

4. Create CAD Entities

There are 66 kinds of CAD entities, now ZWCAD can create 44 kinds of them, including the most frequently used CAD entities such as LINE, ARC, POLYLINE, SPLINE, TEXT, MTEXT, BOX, CONE and so on. For more details, please check appendix: A-1. Create CAD Entities.

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5. Create CAD Objects

There are 16 kinks of CAD objects, and now ZWCAD can create 12 kinks of them, including the most frequently used CAD objects such as BLOCK, LAYER, UCS and so on. For more details, please check appendix: A-2. Create CAD Objects

6. Supported Commands

There are 343 commands in MAC version, and 340 commands in the Linux version. 165 commands are newly added compared with the previous version. If you want to know the detailed supported command list, please check appendix: A-3. Command list

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Bug Fixed: Since the release of ZWCAD for Mac & Linux preview4 versions, there are more than 300 bugs have been fixed, some of which are listed as below:

NO. Description

1 NEW: The default template path is not right while creating new drawing.

2 ICON; The DWG file icon is much bigger than it should be.

3 OPEN: Can't open drawings which are created by AutoCAD educational edition.

4 TEXT: The text is moved automatically after editing.

5 IMAGE: Can't display image correctly.

6 XREF: Can't display XREF.

7 DIMENSION: Can't edit dimension value by double click.

8 REVCLOUD: The program will crash while running command REVCLOUD.

9 ATTDEF: The program will crash while running command ATTDEF.

10 REINIT: Command REINIT doesn't work.

11 EXTEND: Command EXTEND doesn't work as expect.

12 EXTURDE: Can't to extrude closed polyline.

13 INSERT: Can't insert block.

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Known issues: Some of the important known issues are listed as below:

NO. Description

1 PROPERTIES; Can't display properties panel.

2 PLOT: The LINUX version does not support physical printer currently.

3 IMAGE\ROTATE\MIRROR: The result is wrong after rotating or mirroring the

images.

4 TEXT: The font of single line text is changed to TTF even it is specified as SHX at

the beginning.

5 TRACE: The deployment is wrong after selecting the trace.

6 PLOT: Can't remember "last time" setting.

7 PLOT/IMAGE: Can't plot image.

8 PLOT/PAGESETUP: Paper Size setting is invalid.

9 COMMANDLINE: Do not support command dynamic input prompt.

10 MVIEW\-VPORTS: The view port can still zoom in and out even it is being

locked.

11 PLAN\UCS: Can't switch to saved UCS.

12 PLOT/PAGESETUP: Paper Size setting is invalid.

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Appendix

A-1. Create CAD Entities

NO. Entity Command Support

1 POINT POINT、MEASURE、DIVIDE √

2 XLINE XLINE √

3 RAY RAY √

4 LINE LINE √

5 CIRCLE CIRCLE √

6 ARC ARC √

7 2DPOLYLINE PLINE 、 RECTANG 、 POLYGON 、 DONUT 、

REVCLOUD、PLINETYPE

√

8 LWPOLYLINE PLINE 、 RECTANG 、 POLYGON 、 DONUT 、

REVCLOUD、PLINETYPE

√

9 3DPOLYLINE 3DPOLY √

10 ELLIPSE ELLIPSE √

11 WIPEOUT WIPEOUT √

12 SPLINE SPLINE √

13 TEXT TEXT、-TEXT √

14 MTEXT MTEXT √

15 ATTRIBUTE

DEFINITION ATTDEF、-ATTDEF √

16 BLOCK REFERENCE INSERT、-INSERT、DDINSERT √

17 MINSERT MINSERT √

18 EXTERNAL

REFERENCE XREF 、- XREF √

19 ROTATED

DIMENSION DIMROTATED 、 DIMLINEAR 、 DIMBASELINE 、

DIMCONTINUE、QDIM

√

20 ALIGNED

DIMENSION DIMALIGNED 、 DIMBASELINE 、 DIMCONTINUE 、QDIM

√

21 ANGULAR

DIMENSION DIMANGULAR、DIMBASELINE、DIMCONTINUE、QDIM

√

22 3 POINT ANGULAR

DIMENSION DIMANGULAR、DIMBASELINE、DIMCONTINUE、QDIM

√

23 ARC LENGTH

DIMENSION DIMARC、DIMBASELINE、DIMCONTINUE、QDIM √

24 RADIAL DIMENSION DIMRADIUS、DIMRAD、QDIM √

25 DIAMETRIC

DIMENSION DIMDIAMETER、DIMDIA、QDIM √

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26 JOGGED DIMENSION DIMJOGGED √

27 ORDINATE

DIMENSION

DIMORDINATE √

28 LEADER LEADER、QLEADER √

29 MLINE MLINE √

30 TRACE TRACE √

31 SOLID SOLID √

32 SHAPE SHAPE √

33 MLEADER MLEADER √

34 REGION REGION √

35 BODY SPHERE/EXPLODE √

36 3DSOLID BOX 、 WEDGE 、 CONE 、 SPHERE 、 CYLINDER 、

TORUS、EXTRUDE、REVOLVE、SWEEP、LOFT

√

37 SURFACE SPHERE/EXPLODE √

38 EXTRUDEDSURFACE EXTRUDE √

39 REVOLVEDSURFACE REVOLVE √

40 SWEPTSURFACE SWEEP √

41 LOFTEDSURFACE LOFT √

42 MESH EDGESURF √

43 POLYGONMESH 3DMESH √

44 VIEWPORT -VPORTS、MVIEW √

45 ARCTEXT ARCTEXT ×

46 RASTER IMAGE IMAGE、-IMAGE ×

47 OLE INSERTOBJ ×

48 HATCH HATCH、GRADIENT ×

49 TOLERANCE TOLERANCE ×

50 TABLE TABLE、-TABLE ×

51 HELIX NO ×

52 3DFACE 3DFACE ×

53 PLANESURFACE NO ×

54 SURFBLEND NO ×

55 SURFFILLET NO ×

56 SURFNETWORK NO ×

57 SURFOFFSET NO ×

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58 SURFPATCH NO ×

59 PFACEMESH PFACE ×

60 SECTION SECTION ×

61 CAMERA NO ×

62 LIGHT NO ×

63 SUN NO ×

64 DGNUNDERLAY NO ×

65 DWFUNDERLAY NO ×

66 PDFUNDERLAY NO ×

A-2. Create CAD Objects

NO. Object Command Support

1 BLOCK BLOCK、-BLOCK √

2 LAYER LAYER、-LAYER √

3 TEXTSTYLE STYLE、-STYLE √

4 LINETYPE LTYPE、LINETYPE、-LTYPE、-LINETYPE √

5 VIEW VIEW、-VIEW √

6 UCS UCS、UCSMAN、 √

7 VIEWPORT VPORTS、VIEWPORTS、-VPORTS √

8 DIMSTYLE DDIM、DIMSTYLE、-DIMSTYLE √

9 GROUP GROUP、-GROUP √

10 LAYOUT LAYOUT、-LAYOUT、LAYOUTWIZARD √

11 PLOTSETTINGS PAGESETUP、PSETUPIN √

12 COLOR COLOR、-COLOR √

13 REGAPP NO ×

14 MLINESTYLE MLSTYLE ×

15 PLOTSTYLENAME CONVERTPSTYLES、CONVERTCTB、PLOTSTYLE ×

16 TABLESTYLE TABLESTYLE ×

A-3. Command List

NO. Command Mac Linux

1 NEW √ √

2 QNEW √ √

3 OPEN √ √

4 SAVE √ √

5 QSAVE √ √

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6 SAVEAS √ √

7 EXIT √ √

8 QUIT √ √

9 CLOSE √ √

10 CLOSEALL √ √

11 PLOT √ √

12 PRINT √ √

13 U √ √

14 UNDO √ √

15 REDO √ √

16 MREDO √ √

17 AI_SELALL √ √

18 COPYCLIP √ √

19 CUTCLIP √ √

20 PASTECLIP √ √

21 COPYBASE √ √

22 PASTEBLOCK √ √

23 PASTEORIG √ √

24 OPTIONS √ √

25 CONFIG √ √

26 SYSWINDOWS √ √

27 REGENAUTO √ √

28 REDRAW √ √

29 REDRAWALL √ √

30 REGEN √ √

31 REGENALL √ √

32 POINT √ √

33 DDPTYPE √ √

34 DIVIDE √ √

35 MEASURE √ √

36 XLINE √ √

37 RAY √ √

38 LINE √ √

39 CIRCLE √ √

40 ARC √ √

41 PLINE √ √

42 RECTANG √ √

43 REVCLOUD √ √

44 DONUT √ √

45 DOUGHNUT √ √

46 SKETCH √ √

47 3DPOLY √ √

48 POLYGON √ √

49 ELLIPSE √ √

50 SPLINE √ √

51 SPLINEDIT √ √

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52 BLOCK √ √

53 -BLOCK √ √

54 INSERT √ √

55 DDINSERT √ √

56 -INSERT √ √

57 MINSERT √ √

58 XREF √ √

59 -XREF √ √

60 XATTACH √ √

61 REFEDIT √ √

62 -REFEDIT √ √

63 REFSET √ √

64 REFCLOSE √ √

65 XBIND √ √

66 -XBIND √ √

67 -STYLE √ √

68 TEXT √ √

69 DTEXT √ √

70 -TEXT √ √

71 MTEXT √ √

72 -MTEXT √ √

73 ATTDEF √ √

74 DDATTDEF √ √

75 -ATTDEF √ √

76 MTEDIT √ √

77 MTPROP √ √

78 REGION √ √

79 WIPEOUT √ √

80 DIMSTYLE √ √

81 DDIM √ √

82 -DIMSTYLE √ √

83 DIMLINEAR √ √

84 DIMROTATED √ √

85 DIMALIGNED √ √

86 DIMANGULAR √ √

87 DIMARC √ √

88 DIMRADIUS √ √

89 DIMDIAMETER √ √

90 DIMORDINATE √ √

91 DIMJOGGED √ √

92 LEADER √ √

93 QLEADER √ √

94 IMAGECLIP √ √

95 IMAGEFRAME √ √

96 LAYOUT √ √

97 -LAYOUT √ √

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98 MLINE √ √

99 MLEDIT √ √

100 -MLEDIT √ √

101 TRACE √ √

102 SOLID √ √

103 LOAD √ √

104 SHAPE √ √

105 UCS √ √

106 UCSICON √ √

107 UCSMAN √ √

108 DDUCSP √ √

109 LAYER √ √

110 -LAYER √ √

111 VPLAYER √ √

112 LINETYPE √ √

113 LTSCALE √ √

114 -VIEW √ √

115 VPOINT √ √

116 -VPORTS √ √

117 ZOOM √ √

118 RTZOOM √ √

119 PAN √ √

120 -PAN √ √

121 RTPAN √ √

122 PLAN √ √

123 ERASE √ √

124 MOVE √ √

125 COPY √ √

126 MIRROR √ √

127 STRETCH √ √

128 ROTATE √ √

129 SCALE √ √

130 ARRAY √ √

131 -ARRAY √ √

132 OFFSET √ √

133 TRIM √ √

134 EXTEND √ √

135 CHAMFER √ √

136 FILLET √ √

137 LENGTHEN √ √

138 BREAK √ √

139 JOIN √ √

140 EXPLODE √ √

141 X √ √

142 PURGE √ √

143 -PURGE √ √

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144 CHSPACE √ √

145 PSPACE √ √

146 MSPACE √ √

147 PEDIT √ √

148 MLEADER √ √

149 MLEADERSTYLE √ √

150 MLEADEREDIT √ √

151 NCOPY √ √

152 DRAWORDER √ √

153 3D √ √

154 ACISIN √ √

155 ACISOUT √ √

156 BOX √ √

157 CONE √ √

158 CYLINDER √ √

159 TORUS √ √

160 SPHERE √ √

161 3DMESH √ √

162 WEDGE √ √

163 SECTION √ √

164 EDGESURF √ √

165 REVSURF √ √

166 RULESURF √ √

167 TABSURF √ √

168 EXTRUDE √ √

169 REVOLVE √ √

170 SWEEP √ √

171 SLICE √ √

172 AI_CONE √ √

173 AI_WEDGE √ √

174 AI_PYRAMID √ √

175 AI_DOME √ √

176 AI_BOX √ √

177 AI_DISH √ √

178 AI_SPHERE √ √

179 AI_TORUS √ √

180 AI_CYLINDER √ √

181 UNION √ √

182 INTERSECT √ √

183 SUBTRACT √ √

184 INTERFERE √ √

185 3DARRAY √ √

186 LAYMCUR √ √

187 LAYMCH √ √

188 -LAYMCH √ √

189 LAYISO √ √

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190 LAYOFF √ √

191 LAYON √ √

192 LAYTHW √ √

193 LAYLCK √ √

194 LAYULK √ √

195 LAYCUR √ √

196 LAYCUR1 √ √

197 -LAYDEL √ √

198 LAYDEL √ √

199 EATTEDIT √ √

200 -ATTEDIT √ √

201 ATTDISP √ √

202 BASE √ √

203 COLOR √ √

204 DDCOLOR √ √

205 -COLOR √ √

206 LINEWEIGHT √ √

207 LWEIGHT √ √

208 -LWEIGHT √ √

209 RENAME √ √

210 -RENAME √ √

211 -GROUP √ √

212 UNGROUP √ √

213 GROUPUNNAME √ √

214 SELECT √ √

215 PSELECT √ √

216 QSELECT √ √

217 DESELECT √ √

218 EXC √ √

219 EXCP √ √

220 EXF √ √

221 EXP1 √ √

222 EXW √ √

223 EXWP √ √

224 MATCHPROP √ √

225 PAINTER √ √

226 CHANGE √ √

227 WBLOCK √ √

228 -WBLOCK √ √

229 XCLIP √ √

230 DDEDIT √ √

231 DIMBREAK √ √

232 DIMSPACE √ √

233 QDIM √ √

234 DIMBASELINE √ √

235 DIMCONTINUE √ √

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236 -DIMINSPECT √ √

237 DIMJOGLINE √ √

238 DIMREASSOCIATE √ √

239 DIMDISASSOCIATE √ √

240 DIMCENTER √ √

241 DIM √ √

242 DIM1 √ √

243 DIMENSION √ √

244 DIMEDIT √ √

245 DIMOVERRIDE √ √

246 AI_DIM_TEXTABOVE √ √

247 AI_DIM_TEXTCENTER √ √

248 AI_DIM_TEXTHOME √ √

249 VPCLIP √ √

250 3DORBIT √ √

251 MVIEW √ √

252 VIEWRES √ √

253 COMMANDLINE √ √

254 COMMANDLINEHIDE √ √

255 ALIASEDIT √ √

256 REINIT √ √

257 ZRX √ √

258 LIMITS √ √

259 UNITS √ √

260 DDUNITS √ √

261 -UNITS √ √

262 OSNAP √ √

263 SNAP √ √

264 -OSNAP √ √

265 GRID √ √

266 ORTHO √ √

267 ISOPLANE √ √

268 APERTURE √ √

269 DSETTINGS √ √

270 +DSETTINGS √ √

271 ID √ √

272 LIST √ √

273 DIST √ √

274 AREA √ √

275 MASSPROP √ √

276 STATUS √ √

277 SETVAR √ √

278 MULTIPLE √ √

279 DELAY √ √

280 ELEV √ √

281 FILL √ √

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282 AUDIT √ √

283 RECOVER √ √

284 BURST √ √

285 CHGBCOL √ √

286 CHGBWID √ √

287 CHGBANG √ √

288 CHGBHEI √ √

289 CHGBLAY √ √

290 TEXTMASK √ √

291 TEXTUNMASK √ √

292 TXT2MTXT √ √

293 TJUST √ √

294 TORIENT √ √

295 TCIRCLE √ √

296 TCOUNT √ √

297 TCASE √ √

298 CURSTYLE √ √

299 CHGTHEI √ √

300 TXTALIGN √ √

301 MTEXP √ √

302 TXTULINE √ √

303 DELULINE √ √

304 DIMREASSOC √ √

305 DELDIM √ √

306 GETSEL √ √

307 COPYM √ √

308 EXOFFSET √ √

309 DELDUPL √ √

310 EXTRIM √ √

311 BREAKLINE √ √

312 JOINL √ √

313 ANGDIV √ √

314 ARCCMP √ √

315 CHGLTSCA √ √

316 SYSVDLG √ √

317 EXPLAN √ √

318 DELHATCH √ √

319 LINESUM √ √

320 ARCSUM √ √

321 AREASUM √ √

322 BLOCKSUM √ √

323 ZVALTO0 √ √

324 BCOUNT √ √

325 BLOCK? √ √

326 BSCALE √ √

327 CHPROP √ √

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328 DDRMODES √ √

329 DRAGMODE √ √

330 HIDEOBJECTS √ √

331 ISOLATEOBJECTS √ √

332 MODEL √ √

333 MPEDIT √ √

334 UNISOLATEOBJECTS √ √

335 DWFOUT √ √

336 DXFIN √ √

337 DXFOUT √ √

338 VPMAX √ √

339 VPMIN √ √

340 DVIEW √ √

341 -LAYMRG √ X

342 LAYMRG √ X

343 DGNIMPORT √ X