


and ZWSOFT geared up in the domestic market through the promotion of multifunctional and low-price products.

In recent years, CAXA Technology Co., Ltd. Nevertheless, it offers up juicy gossip on the CAD world in China:Īutodesk's price-cutting aims to push out ZWSOFT and snatch market share from its Chinese peers, pointed out Liu Yufeng.Īctually, Autodesk has been leading China's CAD field with a 50% market share. I don't know if Trading Markets is presenting the "ZWCAD Software Kicks Off Price War with Autodesk" as an article or a press release. In reaction, ZWSoft is halving the price of their IntelliCAD-based ZWCAD. The way this article reads, it sounds as if Autodesk lowered the price of AutoCAD to match that of ZWCAD's. ZWSoft is taking advantage of Autodesk's massive 80% price cut in China to artfully respond. Offer ends 15 January, two weeks before Autodesk's fiscal year-end. Details here.Īutodesk has the same offer: download AutoCAD LT free and then after 30 days pay for a license at a 46% discount, after two rebates are included. Offer ends 30 November (but I would expect to see it extended "due to popular demand" or some similar reason). Now the discount stands at a somewhat less thrifty 64%. You pay $875 for the software (there's the 75% discount), but also have to purchase the one-year software support and maintenance contract for another $585. Once you get past the large print, you learn from the small print it's not quite 75%. In Germany, CAD Schroer is wooing those who downloaded the free version of their STHENO/PRO drafting software for Pro/ENGINEER users: download it free, and then get a 75% discount.
