HiCAD neXt is a professional 2D/3D CAD solution designed for end‑to‑end product and plant design. It combines parametric and direct modeling in a single environment, letting you move seamlessly from concept to detailed engineering across disciplines such as mechanical design, sheet metal, structural steelwork, and piping.
Key capabilities include robust part and assembly modeling with constraints, variant and rules-based design, automatic drawing creation, and accurate bills of materials. Industry-specific toolsets accelerate common tasks: sheet‑metal unfolding with NC export; steelwork with standard profiles, joints, and automated detailing; and piping/tubing routing with fittings and collision checks. Powerful libraries, configurable standards, and measurement and analysis tools help maintain consistency and quality.
HiCAD neXt supports common data exchange formats (e.g., DWG/DXF, STEP, IGES) for smooth collaboration, and offers rendering and visualization for clear communication with stakeholders. Customization and automation options enable teams to tailor workflows, integrate with downstream processes, and scale the system to project needs. Overall, HiCAD neXt provides an adaptable, production-ready CAD platform for companies that need one toolset to handle diverse design tasks efficiently.
HiCAD neXt is developed by ISD Software und Systeme. The most popular version of this product among our users is 3.1. The names of program executable files are hicad.exe, HiCAD2010.exe and HiCAD_Viewer.exe.
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