The high end packages are totally out of anyone's price range and the mid-ranged product are all priced at the same arbitrary price as AutoCAD was when released. They are nickel and diming you to death. You know the annual maintenance contracts and upgrades are a rip off,  $1600 to $2000 per year! What are you crazy? What do you owe those folks? Just because you have some experience and legacy?

The CAD world is changing and becoming more compatible. We are dedicated to bringing the price of CAD down to a reasonable level. Heck, we can sell you two new ZW3D Lites  for the price of your annual maintenance!!

When you find that you need sheet metal or advanced surfacing or the variety of other features. You can upgrade for just the difference in price. In fact you can mix products. Most of your staff can be using ZW3D Lite and those that need the add functions can use ZW3D standard or above. Take a look at the product matrix below. 

Compatibility worry you? No problem!

We can read Creo (Pro/e), Siemens NX, Catia 4/5,Solidworks, Inventor and Solid Edge

Plus read/write all of the standard formats plus write Catia 4/5

Stuck with a non-current Solidworks?? Heck we can read the current version for a lousy $795.00!

What does Solidwork want to get you current.. well over $2000.00 that's for sure!!

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Who needs ZW3D?

The Individual

The Engineering Professional

Whether you are a budding or current engineer or designer ready to create the product of the century or a retired engineer or designer who just wants to keep their finger in the industry, this is the product for you.

So you work for a large company that uses Catia, Pro/E or NX, $20,000.00. No way are you going to afford a seat of your own to start a design business, and your company doesn't like you that much to give you a seat. To even think of justifying a purchase like that, you would have to have a huge contract.

Okay, how about the mid range products?? Hmm, Solidworks $6,000.00, Inventor $5,000.00. Oh yes, I can hear it now. Honey, I want to start my own design business. Can we spend $6,000.00, is the answer laughter, "We need new carpeting", or "whatever".

So how do you start a business doing professional side CAD work for a company or designing your own products or inventions. We do have the solution.

The Inventor or Hobbyist

With the entry of 3D printing the world of 3D design is now open to those that are not engineers or designers but want to create 3D parts. You don't want to end up with a toy, you need a substantial professional CAD system to create the next widget everyone may need.

The Company

Design Houses

Now most companies are small. The big boys, like Catia, Pro/E and NX are really only for PLM (Multiyear projects, many engineers working concurrently with thousands of parts and many outside suppliers). So you need a couple of seats, towards $50,000. Maintenance, Support and if you don't hire it, the unthinkable Training costs!!!

No problem, we will buy Solidworks or Inventor!

A startup needs a staff of 5 engineers. Gulp. $30,000 for Solidworks, $25,000 for Inventor.. plus maintenance? A minimum of another $6,000.00. Yes, there are many users of these CAD packages, but at what price?

Suppliers

So you have a couple of CAD packages. The initial cost were high now they want you to keep the maintenances up and you only use them to read the native files. The cost just aren't worth it.

Now you can keep current with the latest standard translators like ACIS .sat, Parasolid .xmt, IGES, STEP, DXF/DWG or import the latest native files of Creo (Pro/E), NX (UG), Solidworks, Inventor and both Catia 4 and 5 for the low upgrade cost of 250.00 after the initial investment, you only need one because you can continue to use your existing software just by bringing in the parts or assemblies into ZW3D and exporting in a format your system can read or just leave them in ZW3D Lite to edit with the direct edit capabilities.

This package also offers more Advanced CAD, Integrated Mold and Die Design and Reverse Engineering options!
Need Integrated CNC! Pricing starts at $1,495.00. See below for special pricing.

How about 5 full CAD systems for the price of one Solidworks?

It all comes down to Dollars and Sense.

What we offer is an inexpensive complete professional CAD system.

Most solid modeling system work about the same. Besides the high end complex systems, the mid range systems are relatively easy to pick up. Yes there are a few idiosyncrasies, but most go away in a short time.

If you are a company, we can supply a system so your employee can work remotely. But at this price most can afford their own system.

Compatibility?

All products come with the ability to read/write all the standard formats, ACIS, Parasolids, STEP, IGES, dxf/dwg, etc. Plus read all the popular CAD packages, Pro/E, Catia 4/5, NX, Solidworks and Inventor.

Don't worry we can Directly Edit Non-Native Parts. So you can use your existing data.