5 Features of HighDesign R6.5 that will improve your design experience. HighDesign R6.5 has been released earlier this June and it includes over 40 new features and improvements and dozens of fixes. Here we’ll highlight some of the features of this release. Improved Windows Support This release offers a much better support and performance on …
Hello everybody, HighDesign was just updated with cool new features that greatly expand its graphics capabilities! R6.1 also adds macOS Monterey support, improved performance, new hatch patterns and symbols, and much more. macOS Monterey HighDesign R6.1 is fully compatible with Apple’s latest and greatest version of macOS! In addition to that, as a Universal app …
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A typical project is usually made of many different drawings that range from site studies to structural grids, from floor plans to sections and elevations. All these drawings must then be presented in a conventional form through layouts that will be printed or published as PDF. HighDesign Pro provides an easy way of managing the …
Once in a while a technological innovation changes the game in the software industry. That is case with the new Apple Silicon M1 chip. Having worked every day on a new M1 Mac for some months, we can say that the press hype is well justified: the machine is really fast, even compared to a …
This year has certainly been unique, and given the expectations everybody in the world was having about 2020 exactly one year ago, one would be excused for being a bit hesitant about openly showing optimism for 2021. Yet we think we should, for many reasons, so let’s take a look at what’s coming next month. …
In its November 10th 2020 event, Apple unveiled the first machines using their own ARM-based M1 chip. While the exterior design was overall left unchanged – and that is a good thing, why change something that is good just for the sake of change? – the machines internal components are impressive. A week after the …
The third update to the HighDesign R5 line is now available for download, either from the Downloads page or from the Update directly in HighDesign. Quality of projects and workflow are extremely important to us. As all CAD and architecture design professionals know very well, those two key factors influence each other for the eventual …
In the previous article, we familiarised with the concept of Style in a HighDesign project and learnt how to create a new style. Now, it is time to see the differences between a style and a type, and learn to manage styles. Styles vs Types A Style is a named, predefined set of properties and …
Learn how to use styles effectively in your projects. A typical CAD project contains a very large number of objects, which can often reach the thousands. With the increase of graphic objects, parametric elements, groups and symbols, the complexity of the project also increases exponentially, and so does the time needed to find and modify …
One of the most used features in CAD are undoubtedly symbols and blocks: you design a component once and re-use it many times in different projects, saving time and resources. HighDesign includes a default library of pre-made symbols ready to use in your project, but you can easily make your own library of custom symbols …
