HighDesign 1.7 review
DownloadHighDesign is a professional CAD program that features powerful and intuitive drawing tools, a clean and easy-to-use interface and special tools designed to increase your personal productivity and creativity.
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HighDesign is a professional CAD program that features powerful and intuitive drawing tools, a clean and easy-to-use interface and special tools designed to increase your personal productivity and creativity. From the first sketches to drafting, HighDesign lets you quickly achieve the results you want by providing an easy to use Digital Design environment you can actually enjoy using.
HighDesign extensive range of features include: project merging, customisable symbol library, multiple undos and redos, custom page layouts, Views palette, Photogrammetry, image editing, walls and parametric windows.
Here are some key features of "HighDesign":
Powerful drawing and editing tools.
Automatic snap to grid, objects, intersections, right-angles, tangents and alignments.
High quality printing capabilities
Multiple undos and redos
Compatibility with DXF 12, 14, 2/2002, 2004.
Customizable symbol library
Ability to insert, edit and display bitmap images with adjustable transparency
Support for metric and imperial systems
Support for ISO, ASME and custom page layouts
Advanced project organization through unlimited groups and layers
Unique Sheet technology to organize the project
Customizable line-types and hatch patterns
Named views
Walls with automatic intersections and parametric doors and windows
Photogrammetry tool to get scaled elevations from digital images
Associative radial dimensions
Tools to calculate area of polygons, hatch irregular regions, convert segments to polygons, etc.
Limitations:
The Trial version of HighDesign lets you explore all of the features of the Professional version, included Save, Export and Print, for 12 hours of actual, non-continued use.
During the trial period, you can save, export and print your projects, but printouts are limited to 14''x14'' pages (35x35 cm).
Upon expiration, save, copy, export and print features are disabled.
Requirements:
Macintosh computer with 500MHz or faster PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 (G4 for PowerBook); G4 or G5 recommended
128MB of RAM (512MB recommended)
QuickTime 6.5 or later.
What's New:
Universal Binary
Precisely edit objects and get numerical info in the new Object Info inspector
Create reference lines in your project with the new Construction Lines tool
Measure any linear distance or path with the new Measure tool
You can now edit any symbol easily and quickly via the new Edit Symbol tool
Enrich your drawings with the dozens of new, high-quality symbols
Create architectural plans using the enhanced Walls tool, which now supports multiple node intersections, better hatching and easier construction
New door types like pocket and bi-folding, and new options like opaque sill. Save your window/door settings as re-usable presets
Use Project Views to take a snapshot of the current status of zoom, position, layer and sheet visibility. You can now use Project Views as print presets in the Print Preview dialog
Increase your productivity thanks to the improvements to layers management, DXF compatibility, preferences and interface
HighDesign 1.7 keywords