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HighDesign 1.8.4


HighDesign A professional CAD application with powerful and intuitive drawing tools

System Requirememts
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
Download Details
Company ilexsoft
Version 1.8.4
Post Date May 09, 2009
License Trial
File Size 41.9 MB
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HighDesign 1.8.4


A professional CAD application with powerful and intuitive drawing tools
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.


Main 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, 2000/2002, 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.


    Requirements of HighDesign:

  • Minimum: Mac computer with a PowerPC G4 1 GHz or a Intel Core Duo processor; Recommended: Mac computer with a 1.6GHz or faster Intel Core Duo processor or 2.0GHz or faster PowerPC G5 processors.
  • Minimum: 512MB RAM; Recommended: 1GB of RAM or higher.
  • Minimum: QuickTime 6.0 or later.
  • Minimum: 1024 x 768 pixels capable display.
  • Minimum: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200.
  • Minimum: 150 MB of disk space for application, examples and tutorials.
  • Recommended: Ati Radeon 9200 video card or better.


    Limitations of HighDesign:

  • 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.

    What's New in This Release:

    New Features and Improvements:
  • New Cloud method in the Curves tool.
  • Annotations now provide four new label symbols: delta, diamond, hexagon and circle.
  • Added two new angular units: radians and centesimal grads.

    Fixes, Changes & Optimizations:
  • Dividing a line into segments no longer places the new segments onto the first sheet.
  • The Parallel, Perpendicular buttons are now enabled with the Polygon tool.
  • The Organize > Layers menu now works correctly.
  • DXF/DWG output: two-vertex polygons are now exported correctly.
  • DXF/DWG input: non-styled texts are now imported with a monospaced font.
  • DXF/DWG input: blocks with negative scaling factors are imported correctly.
  • DXF/DWG Input: elliptical arcs now have their correct handles.
  • Edit Symbol: now retains the original creation scale of the edited symbol.
  • Snap now handles intersections between objects and quick alignment guides.
  • Fit Text Box tool no longer moves right-aligned texts.
  • Rotated elliptical arcs with pen > 1 did not display correctly.
  • App no longer fails to load some symbols in saved documents.
  • Stability improvements.
  • Fixed cosmetic glitches in two dialogues in the Standard edition.
  • Arcs created by exploded doors now have their correct handles.
  • Doors and windows now honor their pen weight settings.
  • Fixed a minor refresh issue when holding down the Shift key with the 'Set Start Point' (L) function.