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:
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's that easy to evaluate
point clouds in HiCAD.
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
BURRI public elements AG
„HiCAD impresses by its top performance and is a very useful tool for steel and metal engineering tasks“
Bernhard Gasser, Chief Designer
Ankli Metallbau | Reference report
The answer to this question is quite simple: the industry-specific solutions have given us the certainty that we can cover the entire business area, steel construction, metal engineering, sheet metal fabrication and glass construction with HiCAD. HiCAD is the right solution and the right tool for our industry. We see HiCAD as an extremely powerful tool for the metalconstruction industry.
„Wir können uns vollständig auf die technische Lösung konzentrieren und haben jederzeit die richtigen Maße zur Verfügung, ohne mehrmals zur Baustelle fahren und Messungen mit mehreren Mitarbeitern durchführen zu müssen.“
Kilian Ankli, Ingenieur & Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung
Ankli Metallbau
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.
„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
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.
„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
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.
„Wenn Projekte im 3D geplant werden, ist die Maßaufnahme mit Punktwolke fast zwingend.“
Tobias Balsiger, Projektleiter
Vettiger Metallbau AG
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."
„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
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.
„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
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.
„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
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
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.
„Automatically created BOMs and drawing derivations are pricelessly valuable and save a lot of time.“
Anton Ilic, General Manager
NILU Stahlbau GmbH
