Polygon

Draw rectangle

Sketch > Draw > Rectangle

With this function you draw a rectangle by selecting two opposite corner points. The Sketching Tool is started for this purpose.

Unlike polyline sketching, only the XY-grid and Free modes are available. Also, only distance grids are supported.

Select a corner point of the rectangle.
Select the opposite corner point. Instead of the point, you can also enter the X and Y distance to the first point after pressing the space bar (see also Value input).

For 3-D sketches, you can change the drawing plane before the point / line selection.

The rectangle is immediately inserted into your drawing. The dialogue window remains open for the construction of further rectangles (of the same sketch).

Clicking opens a pull-down menu with further functions for N-gons.

Draw rectangle, via 3 points/width/height

Sketch > Draw > Rectangle > Via 3 points/width/height

With this function you draw a rectangle by selecting three points. The Sketching Tool is started for this purpose.

Select the start point of the baseline.
Select the end point of the baseline or press the space bar to enter the distance.
Select another rectangle point. Instead of selecting a point, you can also enter the height of the rectangle after pressing the space bar.

Please note:

In contrast to the Rectangle function, distance and angle grids are supported.
For 3-D sketches, you can change the drawing plane before the point / line selection.

Rectangle with centre point

Sketch > Draw > Rectangle > With centre point

With this function you draw a rectangle by selecting the centre point and dragging the rectangle. The Sketching Tool is started for this purpose.

Select the centre point.
Select a corner point of the rectangle. Instead of selecting a point, you can also enter the width and height of the rectangle after pressing the space bar.

Draw parallelogram

Sketch > Draw > Rectangle > Parallelogram

With this function you draw a parallelogram by selecting 3 points. The Sketching Tool is started for this purpose.

Select the starting point of the baseline.
Select the end point of the baseline or press the space bar to enter the distance.
Select the third point of the parallelogram. Instead of selecting a point, you can also enter the height of the rectangle after pressing the space bar.

For 3-D sketches, you can change the drawing plane before the point / line selection.

Draw N-gon

Sketch > Draw > Rectangle > N-gon

With this function you draw an N-gon. The Sketching Tool is started for this purpose.

Unlike polyline sketching, only the XY-grid and Free modes are available

Select the N-gon centre point.
Enter the quantity of corners and the width across flats (1) or the quantity of corners and the corner dimension (2).
Drag the rectangle by determining the width across flats or the corner dimension.

Pentagon by determining width across flats

Pentagon by determining the corner dimension

Please note:

If the automatic assignment of HCM constraints is set in the HCM settings, the positional constraint Group will be assigned to the N-gon. This means that all lines of the N-gon will be moved only together as a unit by the HCM.

Former functions

With HiCAD 2021 SP1 the Sketching Tools for planar sketches and 3-D sketches have been combined. In this context, functions that are now covered by the sketcher as well as rarely needed functions are no longer available.

Former		New
Rectangle, Free		Draw rectangle, Mode: Free

Sketch Functions (3-D) • Sketch Technology (3-D)