GSTARCAD VS ZWCAD | COMPARISON
COMPARE THE GSTARCAD 2023 WITH ZWCAD.
REMARKS
- This table is for reference only
- Empty space means functionally not supported
- The package that contains LT version does not support BEDIT
- Table comparison updated at Sep 1st 2022
| GstarCAD 2023 | ZWCAD 2023 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Files | PROFESSIONAL | STANDARD | PROFESSIONAL | STANDARD |
| 64-bit Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| .dwg and .dxf for AutoCAD version 2.5 to 2018 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| .pat,.shx,.lin and etc | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Password PROFESSIONAL tection | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| File Recover and Audit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Purge | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Etransmit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sheet Set manager | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CAD Standard .dws | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Xrefs in-place Editing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DWF Underlay | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PDF Underlay | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DGN Underlay | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| DWG Convert | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Import to WMF, SAT, 3DS, DWF, DGN | ✓ | ✓ | Partially | Partially |
| Export to DWG, DWF, DWFX, WMF, EMF, SAT, STL, EPS, DXX, BMP | ✓ | ✓ | Partially | Partially |
| Plot and Publish to PDF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Publish to DWF 2D & 3D | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Collaboration | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| IFC format | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ACAD Tool Palettes Import Tool | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Single-document Mode | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Digital Signature | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reset Settings to Default. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DWF Import | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Interface | GstarCAD PROFESSIONAL |
GstarCAD STANDARD |
ZwCAD PROFESSIONAL |
ZwCAD STANDARD |
| Quick PROFESSIONAL perties | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Hidden Message Settings | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| WorkSpace command | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Color Scheme | More | More | Less | Less |
| CUI Menus and Toolbars | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CUI Import & Export | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Drag and Drop Customization | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Visual Menu Customization | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ribbon / Classic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PROFESSIONAL perties Palettes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Design Center / Tool Palettes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Xref Palette | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Command Line | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Clean Screen | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| New Dynamic Input | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Menu bar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| File Tab | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Selection, Snap & Track | GstarCAD PROFESSIONAL |
GstarCAD STANDARD |
ZwCAD PROFESSIONAL |
ZwCAD STANDARD |
| Navigation Cube | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| SELECTIONCYCLING | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Right-Click + Drag Method | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Selection Preview | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quick Select | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Select Similar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Xtra Grips for Pline & Hatch Objects | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Osnap | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Grid and Snap | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polar Track | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Distance from Endpoint and Divide Segments options | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Multifunctional Grips | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Group | ✓ | ✓ | Different Method | Different Method |
| ADDSELECTED command | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Multiple command | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customizable Mouse Actions in CUI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dimensions | GstarCAD PROFESSIONAL |
GstarCAD STANDARD |
ZwCAD PROFESSIONAL |
ZwCAD STANDARD |
| DIMCENTER Command | ✓ | ✓ | Partially | Partially |
| Reassociate Dimension | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DIMTOFFSET | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Rapid Distance | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Standard Dimensions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Associative Dimension | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quick Dimension | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qleader | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dimension Break | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multileaders | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Text | GstarCAD PROFESSIONAL |
GstarCAD STANDARD |
ZwCAD PROFESSIONAL |
ZwCAD STANDARD |
| Mtext supports Numbering, Superscript, Subscrip…… | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Text Align / Text Match | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Change Text | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Mtext | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Text | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-language Character Set | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| In-place Text Editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mtext Editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support .shx and .ttf font | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Spelling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Check spelling in Mtext | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Fields | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Revcloud | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Wipeout circle option | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rtext / Arc Text | ✓ | ✓ | ArcText | ArcText |
| Text Incremental Copy | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Text on line | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Statistics Summation | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Layers | GstarCAD PROFESSIONAL |
GstarCAD STANDARD |
ZwCAD PROFESSIONAL |
ZwCAD STANDARD |
| Auto Layer | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Change to ByLayer (SETBYLAYER) | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Layer properties Manager | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer States Manager | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Translator | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Walk | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Previous | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Isolate | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Unisolate | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Lock | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Unlock | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Unlock All | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Lock Other Layers | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Layer Freeze | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Freeze Other Layer | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Thaw All Layers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Off | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Off Other Layer | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Turn All Layers On | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Merge | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Delete | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Match | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Viewport Layer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hatch | GstarCAD PROFESSIONAL |
GstarCAD STANDARD |
ZwCAD PROFESSIONAL |
ZwCAD STANDARD |
| Hatch objects from Tool Palettes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gradient Hatches | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom Patterns | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Background and Color for Hatch Patterns | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Trim/Extend of/to Hatch Pattern Entities | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Superhatch | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Transparency for Hatch | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Trim/Extend/Hatch preview | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Raster images | GstarCAD PROFESSIONAL |
GstarCAD STANDARD |
ZwCAD PROFESSIONAL |
ZwCAD STANDARD |
| Raster Image Support (Clipping, Transparency, ...) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support Kinds of Image Files (bmp\jpg\png\tga\tif\gif\pcx\...) | Not support ECW | Not support ECW | Support ECW | Support ECW |
| Express Tools | GstarCAD PROFESSIONAL |
GstarCAD STANDARD |
ZwCAD PROFESSIONAL |
ZwCAD STANDARD |
| Lockup (with password) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layout Merge | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Synchronize Viewports | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Breakpoint Check (CLOSELINE) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fast Select (FASTSEL) | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Change Base | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Layer Draw Order | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Area Table | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Break Object | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Graphic Compare | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Text Align / Text Match | ✓ | ✓ | Align Text | Align Text |
| Batpurge | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Layout by Path | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Line2pl | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Sptpl | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| GstarCAD Tools | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Plot tools | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Drawing Compare | ✓ | ✓ | File Compare | File Compare |
| Delete Duplicate Objects (OVERKILL) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Others | GstarCAD PROFESSIONAL |
GstarCAD STANDARD |
ZwCAD PROFESSIONAL |
ZwCAD STANDARD |
| CLIPIT Command | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Quick Edit Block Attribute Text | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| System Variable Monitor | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Region | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Dataextraction | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Datalink | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Make Shape | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Import Layout as Sheet in Layout Context Menu | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Viewport Scale | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Attribute Increment (ATTINC) | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Define Layout Viewport from ModelSpace (M2LVPORT) | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Security | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Free Scale | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Hatch to Back | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reverse | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Synchronize Attributes (ATTSYNC) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Clip | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ARRAY (Dynamic) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Align Tool / Arrange Tool | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Areasum | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Table | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Symmetric Draw | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Outline Objects | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Invert Fillet | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Draw and Modify Commands | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Offset Multiple | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Helix | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real Time Pan & Zoom | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Annotative Objects | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Object Scales | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Redraw and Regeneration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layout and Paper Space | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layout Viewport settings (Visual Styles) | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Magnifier | ✓ | |||
| Barcode & QR Code | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Non-rectangular Viewports | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shortcut Customization (CUSTACC) | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Match PROFESSIONAL perties Across Drawings | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multilines and Multiline Styles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Block Create and Insert | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Block Attribute Definition | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Redefine Block | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Refedit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hyperlink | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scale List | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dynamic Block Create/Insert/View/Edit | ✓ | Partially | Partially | Partially |
| Table Tools | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| AutoXLSTable | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Pline Boolean | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| SmartMouse | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| SmartVoice | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Undo/Redo Preview | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Invert Xclip | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Table Formula | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 3D | GstarCAD PROFESSIONAL |
GstarCAD STANDARD |
ZwCAD PROFESSIONAL |
ZwCAD STANDARD |
| POLYSOLID | ✓ | |||
| PLANESURF | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| SURFOFFSET | ✓ | |||
| CONVTOMESH | ✓ | |||
| CONVTOSOLID | ✓ | |||
| CONVTOSURFACE | ✓ | |||
| CONVTONURBS | ✓ | |||
| Point Cloud | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| 3D Edition Grips | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Section Plane | ✓ | |||
| Flatshot | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 3D Surfaces | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ACIS Modeling & Editing | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| 3D Orbit options | ✓ | ✓ | Partially | Partially |
| Render | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Visual Styles Manager | ✓ | |||
| Solid editing | ✓ | Partially | ||
| Sol PROFESSIONAL f / Solview / Soldraw | ✓ | Only Sol PROFESSIONAL f | ||
| Printing | GstarCAD PROFESSIONAL |
GstarCAD STANDARD |
ZwCAD PROFESSIONAL |
ZwCAD STANDARD |
| CTB & STB Plot Style Files | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Plot Styles Table Editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in Print Driver | ✓ | ✓ | Partially | Partially |
| Import & Editing of Page Setups | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Publish | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hide and Shade Plot | ✓ | ✓ | Partially | Partially |
| Batch Print | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Arrange Frame | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| PROFESSIONAL gramming | GstarCAD PROFESSIONAL |
GstarCAD STANDARD |
ZwCAD PROFESSIONAL |
ZwCAD STANDARD |
| LISP Debugger | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ActiveX, Including In-place Editing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Entity Data Editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| LISP Support with vl-, vlr-, vla- and vlax- support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| LISP Encryption | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Solutions Development System (SDS/ADS) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DCL / DCL engine / COM API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Visual Basic for Applications | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| VBA VBI PROFESSIONAL jects Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| .Net | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| GRX (GstarCAD Runtime eXtension) | ✓ | ✓ | ZRX | |
| CUI Menu Support and Diesel Expressions | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| MNU and MNS File Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| API for Toolbar and Menu Customization | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Licensing Options | GstarCAD PROFESSIONAL |
GstarCAD STANDARD |
ZwCAD PROFESSIONAL |
ZwCAD STANDARD |
| Perpetual / Stand-alone / Online Activate | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Perpetual / Network / Online Activate | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Perpetual / Stand-alone / USB Dongle | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Perpetual / Network / USB Dongle | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Subscription / Stand-alone / Online Activate | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Subscription / Network / Online Activate | ✓ | ✓ | ||
GSTARCAD OFFERS THE LT VERSION AT THE LOWEST UPFRONT COST, IS EASY TO GET STARTED, AND IS EQUIVALENT TO AUTOCAD LT.
*LT are not available in all countries, check with your local reseller.
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