HiCAD for Cladding & Façade Engineering
Powerful tools for ventilated façades, panel systems, substructures, and manufacturing-ready output.
Challenges & Solutions
Reworking façade layouts after geometry or design changes.
HiCAD’s dynamic parametric design automatically updates substructures, panel divisions, brackets, and details when building geometry changes.
Ensuring precision across large, multi-material façades.
HiCAD delivers unparalleled precision, supporting exact profile positions, offsets, tolerances, drilling locations, and bracket connections.
Producing fabrication-ready documentation.
HiCAD automatically generates drawings, BOMs, part numbers, cutting lists, and production metadata directly from the 3D model.
Ventilated Façades
HiCAD provides specialized tools for ventilated façades, enabling precise modeling of substructures, brackets, rails, profiles, and panels in a fully parametric environment.
- Model complete ventilated façade assemblies with substructures
- Automatic bracket placement based on panel layout and load rules
- Vertical and horizontal rails adapt to building geometry changes
- Supports ALUCOBOND®, ACM panels, fiber cement, and metal sheets
- Integrates insulation layers, panel gaps, joints & fixing methods
Dynamic Parametric Design
Modify building geometry and HiCAD instantly updates panel divisions, rails, brackets, and cutouts across the entire façade—no manual rework required.
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Parametric grids for panel layout and substructure alignment
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Automatic updates when dimensions, offsets, or building surfaces change
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Full associativity between panel geometry and supporting members
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Efficient handling of sloped, curved, or angled façade surfaces
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Intelligent control of tolerances, expansion gaps & panel joints
Unparalleled Precision
HiCAD ensures maximum accuracy for façade design, offering precise model-to-manufacturing control over every detail—from profile positioning to drilling coordinates.
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Exact positioning of brackets, rails, and panel edges
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Accurate drilling points & hole patterns for fabrication
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Automated collision checks for panel & substructure systems
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Precise control over offsets, material thickness & alignments
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Consistency across large, multi-story façades
Custom Panel Design
Design any panel you need—from standard rectangular sheets to complex, perforated, freeform, or multi-layer architectural panels.
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Create panels with any geometry, angle, or curvature
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Supports composite, perforated, metal, and ACM panel types
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Automatic numbering, nesting logic & panel metadata
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Panel geometry updates with façade grids and reference surfaces
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Perfect for architectural features and signature building envelopes
Documentation & Manufacturing
Turn your façade model into precise fabrication packages, complete with drawings, BOMs, cut lists, and metadata required for production.
- Automatic creation of fabrication drawings for panels & substructures
- Generate BOMs, cut lists, drilling coordinates & installation data
- Full part numbering for brackets, rails, profiles & panels
- Export DXF, STEP, IFC & CNC formats directly
- Aligns with manufacturing standards for ACM & metal panels