The Higharc Knowledge Center is designed to walk new users through basic processes and commands for using all tools located within the Higharc Platform. This guide is designed to be a Product Overview and can be a reference for:

Higharc is an Intelligent Homebuilding Platform that enables the designing, building and selling of homes that can adapt to any design changes required by local and state jurisdictions or customer wants and needs. Higharc utilizes Generative Building Modeling to allow the design to adapt to any input changes throughout the home design. These changes can include:

Most computers that can run chromium browsers such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge can use Higharc, regardless of the operating system. Our sales experience and model viewer also have mobile device support.

There is less drawing with Higharc than with traditional design systems. Keeping building data as drawings is a poor practice for a number of reasons. Drawings are only interactive for trained professionals who use complex tools. Updating drawings is time consuming and often requires input from architects or building professionals. Expertise is required to ensure the building plans are accurate, to code and usable by the trades who will perform the construction.

So what do we do if we are not drawing? We model data. When compared ‘head-to-head’ with drawing with CAD, Higharc’s data modeling is more than 100X faster. Many changes that would require days or weeks of work with traditional design can be completed by a non-expert in minutes using Higharc.

The biggest difference you will find between Higharc and traditional CAD or BIM systems is the level of drawing vs. programming to represent buildings.

One of the biggest shifts you will find migrating from CAD or BIM to Higharc is the way we define the dimensions of rooms. We represent the spaces by their centerlines. This is to ensure that the spaces and their layouts can be reusable throughout your business.

We don’t draw walls, we define spaces and their relationships.

When generating buildings from data, we can make changes across many plans at once.

Anyone can use Higharc

Simple but powerful, Higharc extends the capabilities of CAD and building design experts directly to the decision makers throughout the business.

Higharc generates everything you need to design, sell, purchase materials for and construct homes.

The team at Higharc is made up of experts from production homebuilding, commercial and high-end residential architecture, manufacturing, software and video games.