Differences between ZWCAD 2025 Standard and Professional
| Features | ZWCAD 2025 | |
| Std | Pro | |
| Files support | ||
| DWG R14/2000/2004/2007/2010/2013 | ✓ | ✓ |
| DXF R12/2000/2004/2007/2010/2013 | ✓ | ✓ |
| DWG/DXF 2018 | ✓ | ✓ |
| DWT support | ✓ | ✓ |
| User interaction | ||
| Lasso Selection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Adaptive Grid | ✓ | ✓ |
| Classic menu and toolbar | ✓ | ✓ |
| Command auto complete | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customize User Interface (CUI) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Design Center | ✓ | ✓ |
| Drawing tab switching | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dynamic Input | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dynamic UCS | ✓ | ✓ |
| Floating document tab | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-thread CPU speed up | ✓ | ✓ |
| Partial CUI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Panel navigation indicator | ✓ | ✓ |
| Properties Palette | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ribbon interfaces | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tool Palettes | ✓ | ✓ |
| Transparent Command in Dynamic Input | ✓ | ✓ |
| 2D drawing and annotation | ||
| Enhanced coordinate dimensions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Annotative dimensions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Associative dimensions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Enhanced grip editing menu | ✓ | ✓ |
| Field | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hatch/Gradient Hatch | ✓ | ✓ |
| Leader & Mleader | ✓ | ✓ |
| MleaderAlign | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pline and Hatch Boundary Grips | ✓ | ✓ |
| Revcloud | ✓ | ✓ |
| Super Hatch | ✓ | ✓ |
| Table & Table styles | ✓ | ✓ |
| Text and Mtext | ✓ | ✓ |
| Text in-place editing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layers | ||
| Layer Properties Manager (classic) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Properties Manager (Panel) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer States Manager | ✓ | ✓ |
| layer filter | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Walk | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Merge | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Browser | ✓ | ✓ |
| Viewport Layer | ✓ | ✓ |
| Xref,Block and Attribute | ||
| Attribute | ✓ | ✓ |
| Block align | ✓ | ✓ |
| Block editor | ✓ | ✓ |
| Block replace | ✓ | ✓ |
| DGN Underlay | ✓ | ✓ |
| DGN Export | ✓ | ✓ |
| DGN Import | ✓ | ✓ |
| DWF underlay | ✓ | ✓ |
| DWFx underlay | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dynamic Block | ✓ | ✓ |
| External Reference Manager | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiple block inserting | ✓ | ✓ |
| OLE | ✓ | ✓ |
| PDF underlaly | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rater Images | ✓ | ✓ |
| Xrefs | ✓ | ✓ |
| CTB & STB plot styles | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mvsetup | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shade Plot | ✓ | ✓ |
| Smart Plot (Batch Plot) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Plot to SVG | ✓ | ✓ |
| Plotting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Publish DWF/DWFx | ✓ | ✓ |
| Publish PDF | ✓ | ✓ |
| 3D modeling and visulization | ||
| 3D Orbit | ✓ | ✓ |
| ACIS viewing | ✓ | ✓ |
| 3D modeling & editing(including 3DFace, Pyramid & Meshes) (Not support from ZWCAD 2025) |
× | ✓ |
| Rendering× | × | ✓ |
| Solprof | × | ✓ |
| Visual styles (Hide & Shade) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Z axis tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| STL export | × | ✓ |
| IFC Import | ✓ | ✓ |
| STEP Import （ZWCAD 2025 new feature) | × | ✓ |
| 3D Gizmos（ZWCAD 2025 new feature) | × | ✓ |
| Tools | ||
| Quick Properties Panel | ✓ | ✓ |
| Point Cloud | × | ✓ |
| Area Table | ✓ | ✓ |
| GIS Module× | × | ✓ |
| Sheetset Manager | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cloud Storage | ✓ | ✓ |
| 3Dmouse | ✓ | ✓ |
| Associative Array | ✓ | ✓ |
| CAD Standard | ✓ | ✓ |
| Datalink | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dataextraction | ✓ | ✓ |
| DGN Purge | ✓ | ✓ |
| Digital signature for dwfx drawings | ✓ | ✓ |
| Digital signature for dwg drawings | ✓ | ✓ |
| Etransmit | ✓ | ✓ |
| File Compare | ✓ | ✓ |
| Formula apply to table | ✓ | ✓ |
| Group | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lockup & Unlock | ✓ | ✓ |
| Match properties (cross drawings) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiple Undo/Redo | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quick Calculator | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quick select | ✓ | ✓ |
| Raster image vectorization（ZWCAD 2025 new feature) | × | ✓ |
| Region | ✓ | ✓ |
| Settings Migration | ✓ | ✓ |
| Smart mouse | ✓ | ✓ |
| Smart select | ✓ | ✓ |
| Smart voice | ✓ | ✓ |
| Undo/Redo Preview | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layout Export | ✓ | ✓ |
| Application Programming Interfaces | ||
| ActiveX, including in-place editing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full LISP with vl-, vlr-, vla- and vlax- support | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lisp Debugger | ✓ | ✓ |
| DCL engine | ✓ | ✓ |
| Visual Basic for Applications (VBA 32/64-bit) | × | ✓ |
| Runtime extension (ZRX/ARX) | × | ✓ |
| .NET | × | ✓ |
