HighDesign 1.8.5

HighDesign Professional now provides compatibility with AutoCAD® and many other CAD applications thanks to the support of the DWG™ file format up to version 2008.And there's even more: dimensions, arrowheads, presets, styles, printing resolution, more speed for an unprecedented user experience.

Major Features:

1. Clean interface
   • The interface is the very first thing you evaluate in a software. Not just the icons and buttons, but the whole approach to functions, sequences of clicks, size and position of toolbars have been designed to make the user experience in HighDesign as streamlined as possible.
2. Advanced Drawing Tools and Editing functions
   • Most of the times, having the right tool will make the difference. HighDesign provides you an extensive drawing tool set and editing functions designed to speed up the drawing process. Every action, from drawing a line to editing a bézier curve, has been developed to require as less clicks as possible, resulting in a quicker and smoother workflow.
3. Real-time Antialiasing
   • QuartzAnti-aliasing is a technique used to smooth objects on the screen and make them more pleasing to the eye, just as if they had been printed with a high-resolution printer. HighDesign provides real-time antialiasing using the Quartz™ technology in Mac OS X. In addition to smooth objects, HighDesign provides adjustable transparency of fills and paragraph backgrounds.
4. High Quality Output
   • Print preview HighDesign's output capabilities include high quality printing and exporting to digital image formats.
   • The Print Preview window provides you with many options to fine-tune the final results: you can choose to print the whole project with the currently visible layers and sheets, to print the selected items only, or to print the selected print area.
5. Powerful drawing and editing tools.
   
6. Automatic snap to grid, objects, intersections, right-angles, tangents and alignments.
   
7. High quality printing capabilities
   
8. Multiple undos and redos
   
9. Compatibility with most CAD and graphics software
   
10. Support for AutoCAD® DWG™ from version R9 to 2008 
    
11. Customizable symbol library
    
12. Ability to insert, edit and display bitmap images with adjustable transparency
    
13. Support for metric and imperial systems
    
14. Support for ISO, ASME and custom page layouts
    
15. Advanced project organization through unlimited groups and layers
    
16. Customizable line-types and hatch patterns
17. Walls with automatic intersections and parametric doors and windows 
    
18. Photogrammetry tool to get scaled elevations from digital images 
    
19. Associative radial dimensions
    
20. Tools to calculate area of polygons, hatch irregular regions, convert segments to polygons, etc.
    

•  New Features and Improvements
• • Colors popup menu: improved the appearance and functionality.
  •  Colors that are not available in the standard palette, typically belonging to objects imported from drawings in other formats, are now added to the document palette and indexed. The index for these colors begins at 256.
  •  Improved the 'By Layer' option, which applies to an object the color of its layer. Now the color of the object is inherited from the layer and changes when the color of the layers is changed.
  •  Drawing Manager, Layers pane: the color box on a layer's row now opens the standard indexed color picker, with an option to open the System color picker and select a non-indexed color.
  •  Drawing Manager, Colors pane: the palette now shows imported colors, if present; the properties of the selected color now include index, RGB, HSV and CMY values, associated pen weight.
• Fixes, Changes & Optimizations
• •  Objects inside groups did not honor the Scale Pen weights options when printing.
  •  Enhanced the internal procedure that checks the integrity of files. When a damaged file is opened, the broken objects are discarded, so to open and display the project correctly.
  •  Walls saved inside symbols were not displayed correctly.
  •  Pro: Export as DXF/DWG to multiple files now works correctly.
  •  Calculate Area now works on circles and ellipses.
  •  Fixed an error in walls with one window extending for the full available length.
  •  Groups again can be selected with Shift-click.
  •  Apply Hatch to open polygons no longer skips the first segment.
  •  Fixed several internal errors.
  •  Saving a JPEG with the Create Image tool no longer shows the Save As dialog twice.
  •  Trim did not work correctly with multiple objects selected.
  •  Find window: style names were not displayed correctly in the caption of the Styles pop-up menu.
  •  Walls, columns and windows now support by Layer colors correctly.
  •  Wall and Hatch edges can be set to By Layer colors.
  •  Layers can now be sorted alphabetically in the Drawing Manager by pressing the 'Layer name' header.
  •  Fill colors can now be chosen from either the HighDesign palette or the System palette.
  •  DXF/DWG input: improved the conversion of styled texts.
  •  DXF/DWG input: fixed the conversion of SOLID entities.
  •  Opening a project now retains visibility and accessibility of the document layers.

Requirements:

1. Minimum Requirements
   
   • Mac computer with a PowerPC G4 1 GHz or a Intel Core Duo processor
   • 512MB RAM
   • Mac OS X v10.3.9 Panther
   • 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
2. Recommended Configuration
   
   • Mac computer with a 1.6GHz or faster Intel Core Duo processor or 2.0GHz or faster PowerPC G5 processors
   • 1GB of RAM or higher
   • Mac OS X v10.4.11 Tiger
   • Mac OS X v10.5.2 Leopard.
   • Ati Radeon 9200 video card or better