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Technical Specifications for HighDesign |
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HighDesign is designed for Apple Intel-based machines. Some features may require a higher amount of system resources and software performance depends on processor speed, amount of installed RAM, and the graphic sub-system.
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Recommended Configuration
- Mac computer with a 1.6GHz or faster Intel Core Duo processor
- 1GB of RAM or higher
- Mac OS X v10.10 'Yosemite'.
- Ati Radeon 9200 video card or better
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Minimum System Requirements
- Mac computer with a Intel Core Duo processor
- 512MB RAM
- Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'
- QuickTime 6.0 or later
- 1024 x 768 pixels capable display
- NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
- 150 MB of disk space for application, examples and tutorials
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User Interface
- Fully compliant to the Apple Aqua user interface guidelines
- Drawing, Editing and Info tools in one window
- Maximum space for your project
- Dynamic interface: shows only the properties and options available to the current tool
- A contextual menu lets you quickly activate only the functions compatible with the selected item
- Integrated inline help (Quick Reference)
- (Pro) Customizable keyboard shortcuts to drawing and editing tools
- Automatic snap to grid, point, object body, midpoint, intersection, perpendicular, tangent and alignment
- Adjustable snap tolerance
- Ability to constrain directions, angles, lengths and intersections
- Automatic scrolling
- Dynamic zoom via numeric keys
- Support for multi-button pointing devices for zooming and panning via the scroll wheel.
- Support for pen tablets
- Multi-language interface
- Ability to open the most recent document at launch
- Automatic save and backup copy
- Up to 150 levels of Undo/Redo
- Support for Click-Drag and Click-Click drawing modes
- Ability to display items with their actual weight or as hairlines
- Background color and pattern
- Option to associate sounds to drawing actions.
- Transparent palettes
- Customizable and printable grid with height and width of the cell, color, style and ability to redraw behind or in front of the drawing
- Support for metric, imperial and pixel units
- Support for decimal accuracy up to 8 digits
- Fractional accuracy up to 1/64
- Support for decimal angles; degrees; degrees and minutes; degrees, minutes and seconds; bearings; geographic north.
- Integrated calculator
- All drawing tools can be activated with a single keystroke
- The Object Info palette displays the coordinates and other numerical values of the selected object
- The Views palettes shows a 3x zoomed view of the current pointer location; it also shows an overview of the project when the cursor enters its window.
- Support for standard Mac OS shortcuts: Option+Arrow duplicates, Space Bar activates the panning tool, Shift+Click adds and subtracts selections.
- Zoom tool with factors ranging from 0.01% to 102,400%
- Rulers with display of the selection bounds
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Drawing Tools
- Arrow tool to select and modify drawing items. Ability to make the selection inclusive (all items partially contained by the selection rectangle) or exclusive (fully contained items only)
- Construction objects: datum points and construction lines.
- Single line by endpoint and by center, and Double line with leading side on the middle or the sides
- Polygon, polyline and double polyline with automatic intersections
- Rectangle, rotated rectangle and regular polygon
- Freehand line, single bézier curve and multiple bézier curve
- Arc by center and radius, by diameter, by three points
- Ellipse by bounding box, rotated ellipse by radii, arc of ellipse
- Text (label and paragraph) with support for TrueType™ fonts and Unicode encoding, size setting in any unit, styles, alignment and rotation angle
- Paragraphs can have shape, fill color and transparency
- Single and multiple linear dimensions, radial, elevation and angular dimensions; leader lines and annotations.
- Dimensions have attributes such as text style, prefix, custom text, tolerances, linetype and arrow style
- Ability to create standard-compliant dimensions and line types
- (Pro) Walls with automatic intersections, Columns and pillars; walls can have vector hatches and solid fill
- (Pro) Doors and windows with one-click insertion; choice from several types
- Symbols with multiple views and associated information
- Adjustable transparency of rectangles, fills, text graphics and pictures
- Print Areas let you define any number of areas of your project to be printed.
- Measure tool, with Line and Path methods
Editing Tools
- Move
- Duplicate
- Linear Multiply
- Polar Multiply
- Rotate
- Rotate by Angle
- Mirror
- Mirror a Copy
- Stretch
- Extrude (creates isometrical projections)
- Find Intersection
- Join
- Extend
- Split
- Trim
- Divide into N parts by points or segments
- Break
- Change length
- Copy and Set Properties
- Numerical editing of position, size and orientation via the Object Info window
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Advanced Tools
- (Pro) Single-image Photogrammetry to get scaled projections of architectural façades, floors, mosaics and wall paintings.
- (Pro) Create Image tool to make high-quality images of the project
- (Pro) Image Editing tools; includes horizontal and vertical mirror, Trim, Grayscale, Sharpen, Blur, Invert colors, Brightness, Contrast, Saturation.
- (Pro) Delete Duplicates tool deletes all overlaid duplicate items
- Explode tools converts an object into its components
- Convert to Polygon
- Apply Hatch to the selected regions
- Calculate Area
- Find Center of Mass of the polygon
- Find tangent points between two circles
- Fillet
- Chamfer
- (Pro) Special tools for walls
- (Pro) Convert to wall
- Correct orientation
- Scale tool to resize the drawing by proportions or by dimensions
- Offset tool
- Ability to edit symbols with automatic update of all instances
Project Organization
- Draw at a scale with dimensions in real scale
- Unlimited layers
- Layers support million of colors
- Objects can have their own color or get the color of their layers
- Layers can be global or specific to the current document
- Rename, sort, lock and hide layers
- Bind layers to drawing tools, so that each tool activates its layer
- More than 50 built-in line-types
- Customizable line-types starting from dashed and special lines like zigzag, sketch, freehand, bitmap, etc.
- Vector hatches can be customized with the ability to overlay up to 6 patterns
- Link colors to pens
- The Views palette shows a real-time 3x zoom and an overview of the project
- (Pro) Sheets: overlay multiple drawings within one project
- Each sheet has its own drawing scale, write-protection and visibility; sheets can be moved, renamed and merged
- Ability to move and duplicate items between sheets
- (Pro) Named Views: a View includes position, zoom factor and sheet visibility
- Ability to create groups of objects
- Search tool lets you quickly find and select drawing items by criteria based on their properties. Options include searching texts inside text blocks and annotations.
- (Pro) Presets store the settings of tool inspectors such as Texts, Dimensions, Hatches, Walls, Columns, Doors and Windows.
- (Pro) Styles define graphical properties and behaviors of any tool
- Apply a style to any number of objects with one click
- Automatic update of all the objects with a style after its modification
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Printing
- Supports any printer equipped with a system-compatible driver
- High quality printing at 180, 300, 360, 600, 1200 DPI
- Print Preview window
- Number of required pages
- Print Areas let you print details of the project
- Option to print selected items only
- Fit to one page
- Prints penweights or hairlines
- Scale penweights
- Prints margin references
- Print All Colors To Black option
- Option to print construction objects
- Ability to select a Project View to activate presets of layers and sheets (Pro)
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Compatibility
- (Pro) Imports and exports drawings in AutoCAD® DWG™ file format, versions 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 2000, 2002, 2004/2006, 2007/2008, 2010/2011/2012
- Imports and exports drawings in AutoCAD® DXF file format, versions 12, 14, 2000/2002, 2004/2006
- Imports and Exports images as TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PICT, BMP, JPEG 2000, MacPaint, Maya IFF, Photoshop, QuickTime Image, SGI Image, TGA
- (Pro) Advanced TIFF export options
- Exports to HPGL (plt)
- (Pro) Exports to vector PDF with RGB or CMYK colors, single or multiple page documents
- Imports and exports legacy vector PICT files
- (Pro) Import Symbol Library tool to convert any existing library of DWG™/DXF symbols or blocks to HighDesign-native symbols.
- (Pro) Batch DXF/DWG import
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Document Organization
- Merge command to add external documents to the current project
- Save Selection command to save the currently selected items as a new document
- Ability to save the current sheet as a single project
- Info about the project window calculates the number of items per type and shows actually used layers
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