HiCAD 2026

Last change: 19.10.2025

Say goodbye to dull, poorly detailed point clouds! The new HiCAD point cloud settings now offer full control over the visual quality. With the function "Improved presentation" and the brightness control to liven up your scans: Intelligent filters emphasise Automatically emphasise contours and edgeseven bring shadowed areas to light and give your 3D data the necessary Depth and realism. Once customised, all models in your design benefit immediately.

We have optimised your 3D workflow: The way in which you select surfaces and layers in 3D Standard and 3D FFF has been completely standardised. The biggest relief: You can now select hidden surfaces without having to tediously rotate the view! Simply press the ALT keyto "switch through" the layers and capture the desired concealed surface in a flash. This is intuitive, fast design that you will love straight away.

More order in your everyday CAD work! HiCAD Start Center has been tidied up and offers with the new tabs "Course" and “Favorites” an intelligent document manager. Mark your most important designs easily with Star symbol as favorites to save them for the Instant access No matter when you last opened a file, your top projects are now just a click away. No more tedious searching!

Now you also have the option to easily copy a finished layout using the RMT.

HiCAD breaks through the boundaries of the standard grid! From now on you can freie Linien als Achsen in your Steel construction grid define. This new flexibility allows you to adapt the grid precisely to complex architectural designs and the specific requirements of the construction site. Now you can effortlessly create customised grids to suit any project, no matter how unconventional.

The Ribbon bar presents itself in a modernised design and is now fully adapted to the requirements of high-resolution 4K screens optimised. Scaling effects and pixelated icons are a thing of the past. This upgrade not only ensures visual quality, but also enables a huge leap in performance: you can now Up to 96 constructions simultaneously without having to compromise on stability.

Create a parts list outside the main assembly

Search for identical parts outside the main assembly

With the function Set the current parts list of the view as the target parts list You can create a target parts list from the currently visible parts. If you have added parts to the view or hidden parts, you can use the Load the view's target parts list Recall the created target parts list. If the target parts list is no longer required, it can be deleted using the function Delete the view's target parts list to remove

We've sped up the tidying up process! When closing several projects at the same time, the tedious, individual confirmation of each individual file is no longer necessary. The query dialogue of the function "Close all constructions" now offers the option "Use for all constructions". Once ticked, all unsaved changes are processed consistently - for a fast, fluid workflow.

The HiCAD-Katalog now enables a significantly more precise article search. The introduction of semicolon separation (;) you can now Several search conditions simultaneously as criteria. Please note: The search results displayed always fulfil alle defined conditions. This allows you to achieve maximum filtering with one search process.