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Technical Specifications for HighDesign

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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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