When you draw a plan using Punch!, the horizontal aspects of the plan are obvious and easily described on the plans for each floor. To create a 3D effect from a plan, however, requires control in the vertical dimension, not just the horizontal. HighRise is a tool for visualizing the vertical design of a structure; it inputs quantities which are readily recognizeable to a non-professional designer, displays a vertical cross-section to verify the inputs, and outputs both the default values which make the design accurate in the vertical dimension, and settings which place new objects at the correct elevations as they are created. It gives the user the correct measurements that they need to supply to Punch! to properly execute your design without resorting to the guess work or cut-and-try methods.

The latest version of HighRise has several planning capabilities:

* Allows for roofs on more then one floor, such as those in designs where an upper story is recessed in from the walls of the lower floor, and have their own roofing system.

* Allows for selection of a better looking design over a functionally correct design, or vice versa.

* HighRise, like its predecessor 'From the Ground Up', will search the plan for existing walls, floors, ceilings and roofs that should be modified, suggests the modification, and if okayed by the user, does the work automatically, and leaves a log of the modifications.

In addition, it does this for up to six full floors of plans. These six floors are all fully editable as separate floor plans in Punch!, and are fully available for 3D renderings in a single file.

For more information about the HighRise, visit the HighRise page, where you can find more examples, description and the entire text of the help documentation.

This powertool is compatible with the following product series:

• Architectural Series 5000, 12.0.0
• Architectural Series 5000, 12.0.1
• Architectural Series 5000, 12.0.2
• Architectural Series 5000, 12.0.3
• Architectural Series 4000, 8.0.0
• Architectural Series 4000, 10.0.0
• Architectural Series 3000, 7.0.0
• Architectural Series 3000, 8.0.0
• Architectural Series 3000, 10.0.0
• Architectural Series 3000, 12.0.0
• Architectural Series 18, 6.0.0
• Architectural Series 18, 6.0.1
• Architectural Series 18, 8.0.0
• Professional Home Design Platinum, 8.0.0
• Professional Home Design Platinum, 10.0.0
• Professional Home Design Platinum, 10.5.0
• Professional Home Design Platinum, 12.0.0
• Master Landscape Pro, 7.5.0
• Master Landscape Pro, 8.0.0
• Master Landscape Pro, 10.5.0
• LDP, 12.0.0
• Interior Design Suite, 10.0.0
• Interior Design Suite, 10.5.0

This powertool is included with the following product series:

System Requirements for ThistleKeep HighRise

• Intel®, Pentium®, Celeron®, or Athlon® Processor
• Windows95, 98, NT, 2000, Me, XP or higher
• 64 MB of RAM
• 900.5 Mb of hard disk space
• VGA video card set at 800 x 600 resolution & 16 bit color depth
• CD-ROM Drive
• Mouse or other pointing device
• 32 MB minimum video card memory
• FOR WIN 2000/XP USERS: 16 mb minimum video card memory