HighDesign Professional

HighDesign comes in two versions to best suit your needs: a Standard and a Professional edition. While the Standard Edition is intended for home users, HighDesign Professional adds many powerful tools for more demanding users such as architects, engineers, designers, etc.

The additional features of the Professional edition have been designed specifically to save time, increase personal productivity and provide functionalities that ease the production and organization of large projects and allow interoperability with other platforms.

When the time spent on a project is critical, HighDesign Professional is what professionals choose.

	Professional Features
1	Sheets Most of the times, a project is composed of several drawings, each with its own layers and at a specific scale. When they are finished, they have to be arranged together to create print layouts. HighDesign Professional offers a unique solution by integrating the various drawings into one project as sheets. By overlaying sheets, you can easily organize even the most complex projects. Each sheet has it own drawing scale, visibility, protection status and page size. Sheets can be renamed and reordered for greater flexibility. Learn more about the Sheets tool.
2	Project Views Unlimited project views let you quickly jump to distant areas and zoom factors of your project. A view stores the current drawing position, visible sheets and layers. You can also use project views to create print layouts: hide all unwanted layers and sheets, and click to take a snapshot of the current status. Then, in the Print Preview window you select the view you want to print. Voila.
3	Presets Save collections of settings of tools such as Texts, Dimensions, Hatches, Walls, Columns, Windows. By saving a preset you store the current settings and reuse them every time you need, in any project. You can save presets of your favorite text style, dimensions that must comply with your company standards, or doors and windows that match a manufacturer's dimensions.
4	Styles Styles let you do even more: you can now organize your project items by their properties and activate any tool with any set of properties with one click. What's more, you can now change the properties of entire classes of objects by modifying their style or by applying a new style. With one click.
5	DWG™ R9-2008 Import & Export HighDesign 1.8 Professional saves you time and effort by communicating with almost every CAD application, on your Mac or on your collaborator's PC. HighDesign Professional provides support for the AutoCAD® DWG™ file format from version 9 up to 2008, both in import and export, and adds support for DXB files too.
6	Batch Import DWG™/DXF Files You can use this command to import a folder of DWG™ or DXF drawings and convert them into HighDesign sheets, one per drawing.
7	All The Symbols You Need The Import Library tool lets you import any existing library of DWG™/DXF blocks or symbols with a simple two-step process: import a folder, review and convert to HighDesign-native symbols. There are hundreds of free or paid collections of symbols available, each with thousands of symbols in DWG™ or DXF format, for a total of millions of symbols. You can access those libraries and have a seamless integration with HighDesign.
8	Export As PDF Publish your project to the PDF format, for maximum compatibility whether you want to print outside your office, show your work to clients or further edit the layout in an illustration program. Export to PDF supports single or multi-page documents, RGB or CMYK colors, adjustable image compression and document information.
9	Advanced Export as TIFF Image The TIFF image format is used in the publishing departments because of the high-quality of the images and the fine-tuning options that ensure the best results. In the TIFF export window, you can save your project as a high quality image and adjust its compression method, resolution, platform compatibility and meta data.
10	Walls and Columns Unlike other walls you may have seen in other CAD applications, which are usually just double lines, walls in HighDesign are actual objects with automatic intersections and customizable graphic properties. New walls automatically join to existing walls and update the intersections when you edit them. You can create complex nodes, edit, resize, add and delete as your project evolves. Also, walls can be filled and hatched and have different leading sides. Similarly, you can create round columns and square pillars.
11	Doors and Windows Just two clicks to insert a door or a window into a wall. Since doors and windows in HighDesign are parametric objects, and not just grouped lines, you can choose the type from plain opening to sliding door, and set their dimensions, number of sashes, sill, and graphical properties. Openings fit automatically to the style and size of the wall and can be moved and edited at anytime. Thanks to the Presets feature, you can save your favorite doors and windows to re-use in all your projects.
12	Customizable Shortcuts You can create your own custom keyboard shortcuts for menu commands and drawing tools. Whether you are used to the key combinations of other programs or you think an item would be quicker to use by pressing different keys, you can just open the Shortcuts panel and start customizing your workspace.
13	Photogrammetry A scientific yet easy-to-use tool for surveying architectural façades and planar surfaces from a single image. Learn more about photogrammetry.
14	Create Image Creates high impact, anti-aliased pictures of the project for use in your favorite presentation tool. You can set the image size, both on-screen and print, and choose from an extensive list of preset sizes; image resolution; image scaling factor; backgrounds as solid colors, gradients and images; frame size and color; spacing; drawing color, use and save custom themes of color and effect combinations.
15	Adjust Image An image editing program within HighDesign: flip, trim, grayscale, sharpen, blur, invert, change brightness, contrast and saturation. Learn more about the Adjust Image tool.
16	Delete Duplicates Command A tool to easily remove all duplicate entities from a drawing. This tool is especially useful with drawings imported from 3D programs as hidden-line views of a model.
17	Correct Orientation Tool Rotate objects and photos to 90°. It is also very helpful when used in association with the Photogrammetry tool.
18	Symbol Data Add text data to any symbol of your library and object of your drawing. With an object-oriented design, you can associate information such as price, availability, material, etc. to any symbol, any of its views and any of the instances you inserted into the project.