ZWCAD Software Licenses Parasolid and Additional D-Cubed Components from Siemens PLM Software

By DE Editors

ZWCAD Software Co. Ltd., is using Siemens PLM Software's D-Cubed software, Parasolid Communicator, and Parasolid STEP translator software in ZW3D software for CAD/CAM.

ZW3D is ZWCAD Software’s new 3D CAD/CAM system based on technology acquired from VX Corporation. It extends ZWCAD Software’s product line—predominantly led by the 2D ZWCAD system—into new 3D CAD/CAM markets.

The 2D DCM typically supports 2D sketching, and the 3D DCM typically supports 3D sketching, assembly part positioning, motion simulation, and direct part modeling.

Parasolid 3D geometric modeling component software enables applications to seamlessly share geometric models through the native Parasolid XT file format. Parasolid Communicator enables the import/export of XT files without translation, as well as the interrogation and visualization of the imported files. The Parasolid STEP translator, part of the Parasolid family of translators, enables the exchange of data between the XT and industry standard STEP file formats.

“Having decided to acquire the VX CAD/CAM product line as the foundation for our move into 3D CAD/CAM with ZW3D, the decision to license these four components from Siemens PLM Software followed on naturally from our prior decision to license the D-Cubed 2D DCM for our ZWCAD Professional product,” says Kingdom Lin, vice director of the overseas department at ZWCAD Software. “We evaluated the D-Cubed 2D DCM software intensively. As a result, we discovered the qualities that underpin its market-leading position, and in the process became convinced of Siemens PLM Software’s status as a dependable long-term provider of core CAD/CAM technologies backed by high quality support services.”

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.