3D CAD software for metalworking shops

Measurement as a basis for your 3D designs

Your time and that of your customers is precious. That's why everything in HiCAD is interlinked and readily available: In combination with the latest 3D scanning technology, you can precisely capture composite edges, planar surfaces and any shape in no time at all and generate them as 3D data at the push of a button.

Use HiCAD to create drawings for
metalworking shops in HiSPEED

The following functions help you achieve a time-saving workflow:

Configurator for stairs and railings

With its staircase and railing configurator, HiCAD is a real support: stairs and railings can be easily configured and loaded into HiCAD. You can also react promptly to subsequent change requests and vary the shape, model and type of mounting of your staris or railings.

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Automated steel engineering connections

Improve your joints and connections and make use of the standards catalogue and the steel engineering libraries of HiCAD. Whether DAST connections or your own connections created as required - you will have everything you need for a load-bearing structure at your disposal. Welded and special beams and profiles can be automatically adapted to changing installation situations - according to the motto: "No connection, no neat finish".

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Sheet Metal: from 3D model to finished development

Starting with the creation of the basic geometry and the generation of chamfers to the developed DXF contour: thanks to HiCAD, you can develop your sheet metal construction with just a few clicks. Intelligent functions enable a fast and easy, practical corner processing, e.g. applying of mitre cuts and drainage areas as well as company-specific layer definitions.

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Create workshop drawings and BOMs automatically

Create your drawings rapidly and easily: Get your workshop drawing at the push of a button, with development, blank and 3D view - of course, complete with designations and dimensions. Other production documents such as BOMs or overbend tables are also generated automatically in HiCAD.

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Planning and overview drawings

Create detail and approval drawings rapidly and easily: In HiCAD you can conveniently create detail views, sectional views and cut-outs from the 3D model drawing. You can also take advantage of the benefits of 3D planning: Not only do you create more clarity for those who use the drawing, you also create fewer drawings in total.

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Interfaces for customers and suppliers

A large number of interfaces enable you to quickly import and export your data. Whether DXF, DWG, STEP or IFC - with HiCAD you can exchange data without any problems. This guarantees you error-free production without data loss from receipt of the order to the final product.

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Metallbau Kuhn GmbH

„The training courses of the ISD are targetoriented, so that the change from 2-D to 3-D was easier than expected. We bought another licence last year, added the HiCAD Steel Engineering suite to the HiCAD Steel Engineering Package and took another step forward with the HiCAD Point Cloud module.“

Sandra Polzin, System planner Metallbau Kuhn GmbH

Metallbau Müller GmbH

„Changes that occur during the manufacturing process often mean that collisions are not detected in the 2D world, but they immediately are in 3D.“

Martin Müller, Technical Director Metallbau Müller GmbH

Vettiger Metallbau AG

„When projects are planned in 3D, it is almost mandatory to take measurements via the point cloud.“

Tobias Balsiger, Project Manager

Stundner Stahl- und Metallbau GmbH

„Thanks to HiCAD's steel engineering connection libraries and the integrated automatism to create welded and special profiles, we were able to display details very clearly and make spontaneous changes on the spot – in direct dialogue with the architect and with the customer.“

Markus Stundner, design engineer

Rood Metallbauplanung AG

„Without the possibility of 3D we would not have accepted the project. This would have been too complex.“

Marcel Suter, Project Leader 3D

NILU Stahlbau GmbH

„Automatically created BOMs and drawing derivations are pricelessly valuable and save a lot of time.“

Anton Ilic, General Manager

Highlights of our 3D CAD solution for metal engineering

Video "Sheet Metal: from the 3D model to the finished development"
Video "Workshop drawing and BOM available at the push of a button"
Video "Automatic connections"
More videos
Video "Planning"
Video "Data exchange made easy"
Video "Configurator for stairs and railings"

3D planning for greater potential

Ernst Schweizer AG | Reference report

“Our success lies in being on the move,” is the credo of the Ernst Schweizer AG, whose history goes back to 1920. It is quite possible that thanks to this attitude it has ventured the step from 2D to 3D planning. Fortunately, the changeover was successful, so that in future the many complex projects of the traditional Swiss company can be planned even more precisely and implemented more efficiently than before.

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„With the option of a purchase licence rather than a rental licence, as well as a bi-directional interface to LogiKal, this combined 2D/3D CAD solution was exactly what we needed.“

Patrick Frei, Technical Manager
Ernst Schweizer AG

Time savings thanks to clear and accurate 3D drawings

PLAN A Zeichenbüro | Reference report

Speed and accuracy are essential skills - all the more so in competitive industries like steel and metal engineering. Jennifer Thumberger, managing director of the drawing office Plan A , has so far been able to hold her own quite well. Just the other day, she transformed the planes of a Viennese educational institution into extremely appealing multifunctional zones - with pergolas, play areas and seating structures made of powder-coated, partly galvanized steel.

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„When I create a detailed design, I generate as many 3D views as possible and thus save myself the trouble of exact detailing and dimensioning in 2D.“

Jennifer Thumberg, Managing Director
PLAN A Zeichenbüro

Metallbau Kuhn GmbH: How HiCAD makes daily work much easier

Metallbau Kuhn GmbH | Reference report

Founded in 2008, Metallbau Kuhn GmbH manufactures balconies, stairs, railings, canopies and welded structures - especially for public developers and clients. Since March 2021, the specialist company has been using HiCAD for its portfolio. In fact, the fully associative 2-D/3-D CAD solution of the ISD Group should have been implemented much earlier, as both companies had already met in 2018 - at the “Metallbaukongress” event in Würzburg.

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3D-CAD for metal construction: Metallbau Kuhn GmbH

„The training courses of the ISD are targetoriented, so that the change from 2-D to 3-D was easier than expected. We bought another licence last year, added the HiCAD Steel Engineering suite to the HiCAD Steel Engineering Package and took another step forward with the HiCAD Point Cloud module.“

Sandra Polzin, System planner Metallbau Kuhn GmbH
Metallbau Kuhn GmbH

From scan to machine with HiCAD

Vettiger Metallbau AG | Reference report

“Glass is our passion,” could be the motto of the Swiss company Vettiger Metallbau AG, which has been manufacturing facade elements made from steel, metal or glass for over 50 years. Their homepage offers attractive images of various building styles that seem to have one thing in common: transparency that unites with state-of-the-art technology and at the same time promises stability.

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„Wenn Projekte im 3D geplant werden, ist die Maßaufnahme mit Punktwolke fast zwingend.“

Tobias Balsiger, Projektleiter
Vettiger Metallbau AG

Special designs as a welcome challenge

Stundner Stahl- und Metallbau GmbH | Reference report

Examples of buildings limited to purely structural and functional aspects abound," says Markus Stundner, design engineer at Stundner Stahl- und Metallbau GmbH. "The challenge is to meet certain requirements in order to achieve the desired harmony of supporting structures and architecture."

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The special design of a steel pavilion with convex-concave pillars that run wave-like to the ground and a dome was a challenge for Stundner Stahl- und Metallbau GmbH that they were able to overcome with the help of HiCAD.

„Durch die Stahlbau-Anschlussbibliotheken von HiCAD und den integrierten Automatismus, Schweiß- und Sonderprofile an verschiedene Einbausituationen anzupassen, konnten wir an Ort und Stelle - im direkten Dialog mit dem Architekten und mit dem Kunden - übersichtlich Details darstellen und spontane Änderungen durchführen.“

Markus Stundner, Konstrukteur
Stundner Stahl- und Metallbau GmbH

Skywards with HiCAD

Stahlbau Nägele GmbH | Reference report

For more than 70 years, the Stahlbau Nägele GmbH has relied on a building material that is modern, flexible, quick to assemble and recyclable: steel. The 210-employee company from Eislingen an der Fils installs around 8,000 tons of this formable, environmentally friendly material every year and is on hand, for example, when it comes to new hall construction and extensions, terrace roofing, carports, staircases and railings, carports, stairs and railings.

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Stahlbau Nägele GmbH used HiCAD to construct Germany's highest observation tower in Baden-Würtemberg, a steel and larch scaffold with three visitor platforms.

„To change a standard part, all it took was a click of the mouse, and all editing options were directly available, as well as all technological data such as weight, length and surface area.“

Matthias Greiner, Technical Director
Stahlbau Nägele GmbH

Planning precision throughout thanks to HiCAD

Rood Metallbauplanung AG | Reference report

Rood Metallbauplanung AG is a planning office for modern steel, metal and glass constructions and various building shells. It was founded in 2013 by Rochus Odermatt in Stans, Switzerland. Services such as submission planning, expertise and implementation planning are part of the range of tasks of the Swiss company, which has been using HiCAD - the CAD software of the ISD Group in Dortmund - for three years now.

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The project was also managed by Rood Metallbauplanung AG. Post transoms, glass with various angles of inclination, around 3000 sheets, stairs and also fire protection elements were successfully planned with HiCAD.

„Without the possibility of 3D we would not have accepted the project. This would have been too complex.“

Marcel Suter, Project Leader 3D
Rood Metallbauplanung AG

With HiCAD you even have the rainforest on your radar

Metallbau Linder | Reference report

HiCAD can be used in so many ways that even the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has already been able to benefit from it: In 2015, Georg Linder designed a radar reflector with the 2D/3D integrated CAD software of the ISD Group based in Dortmund. On numerous measurement flights within the Afri-SAR campaign the DLR determined the condition of the rain forest with the F-SAR sensor in the long wavelength radar range

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Georg Linder designed a radar reflector with HiCAD so that DLR could determine the condition of the rainforest. The radar reflector, weighing 1000 kg, consists of three smooth, metallic conductive aluminium plates standing vertically on top of each other.

Upgraded statics with top tools from HiCAD

NILU Stahlbau GmbH | Reference report

NILU Stahlbau GmbH, founded in 2005, offers a diversified scope of steel construction expertise, including stairways and staircases, railings, hall constructions, balconies and lift shafts. One of the company‘s main focuses is on architectural steel and supporting structures under the roofs of Vienna.

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A vivid reference for structural challenges is the Palais Schottenring. To ensure appropriate load-bearing capacity, the listed building was statically reinforced from the foundation to the roof with steel structures.

„Automatically created BOMs and drawing derivations are pricelessly valuable and save a lot of time.“

Anton Ilic, General Manager
NILU Stahlbau GmbH

From planning to production with 3D CAD for metal construction - check yourself!

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