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Product Updates

2.1.2026

Autor:

Jiri Podval

What’s New in HiStruct 2026

What’s New in the HiStruct Building Configurator: A practical overview of recent improvements.

Building Configurator

Experience

Tips

11.12.2025

Autor:

Lenka Václavíková

HiStruct Easy Guide: How to Model a Roof by Outline

Whether you're a roofing materials manufacturer, estimator, or construction planner, this tool helps you model complex roof structures with just a few clicks. Learn how to quickly create a roof model from an outline using the HiStruct Roofs 3D Roof Configurator.

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HiStruct Roofs: How to Save Material with a Smartly Designed Roof

The installation drawing for the roof plane is a crucial part of any building design. Balancing technical requirements, precise execution, and efficient material distribution isn’t always easy — unless you have the HiStruct Roofs 3D roof configurator at hand. Here’s how it works.

HiStruct Roofs

Roof Configurator

Tips

HiStruct Easy Guide: How to Use Roof Planes Modeling for Maximum Flexibility in Roof Design

Roof modeling doesn’t have to be complicated or time-consuming. Whether you are a roofing manufacturer, distributor, or designer, with the HiStruct Roofs 3D configurator you can create even highly complex roofs within minutes.

HiStruct Roofs

Roof Configurator

Tips

Invisible Roof Drawings Errors: Catch Them Before They Cost You

On paper, a roof design can look flawless. In reality, construction often reveals hidden mistakes in project plans—mistakes that only become apparent too late: during fabrication, on-site assembly, or installation. Every correction costs money, delays schedules, and adds stress to the team. Why does this happen? And is there a way to prevent it?

Roof Configurator

HiStruct Roofs

Tips

Clear Collaboration in Construction: How 3D Models Improve Teamwork

One of the biggest pain points in construction projects? Coordination and collaboration. Endless email threads, outdated PDFs, different file versions floating around… The result is usually confusion, delays, and extra costs. We know how to turn this collaboration chaos into clarity.

Business

Roof Configurator

Silo

Steel

Tips

29.9.2025

Autor:

Lenka Václavíková

HiStruct User Management: Smarter Access Control with Custom Role Editing

Managing users in HiStruct has become more flexible and intuitive. While this capability has been available for some time, we’ve recently refined it with Custom Role Editing, making it easier than ever to tailor access rights to your team’s real needs.

Business

Tips

HiStruct Memory Optimization: Faster Start, Smoother Workflows

At HiStruct, we constantly invest in improvements that make your daily work faster, safer, and more reliable. Some of these changes happen “under the hood” — you don’t always see them, but you can feel the difference, just like when a car gets a stronger engine or better safety features.

Business

4.9.2025

Autor:

Lenka Václavíková

HiStruct Easy Guide: From PDF to 3D Roof in Minutes

HiStruct isn’t just a manual modelling tool — it’s your time-saving sidekick. In HiStruct, you can draw your roof from scratch or start from available templates. But if you’ve got a PDF drawing or a 3D model in any format, you’re in luck — these are the real productivity boosters. Whether you're starting from a technical drawing or a scanned 3D model, HiStruct helps you turn it into a complete roof design with just a few clicks. It’s not magic — it’s HiStruct!

Tips

How to Impress Your Clients with a Perfect 3D Roof Model in Minutes

Your next sale could be just one roof model away. Imagine sending your client a detailed 3D view of their future roof within minutes of their request. No waiting for external calculations. No messy back-and-forth. Just instant, accurate visuals that make decisions easy. Faster quotes mean faster decisions, and faster decisions mean more jobs won.

Tips

Business

8.8.2025

Autor:

Lenka Václavíková

HiStruct Buildings: 3D Building Configurator to Design, Visualise and Quote Steel Buildings in Minutes

Designing a steel building doesn’t have to take hours – or require multiple tools and departments. HiStruct Buildings helps you quickly create price quotes. With HiStruct you can go from first idea to perfect 3D model and complete price quote in just a few minutes. No CAD tools, no waiting, no back-and-forth.

Roof Configurator

Business

HiStruct Roofs: 3D Roof Configurator to Design, Visualise and Quote Roofs in Minutes

Imagine designing a roof from just a floor plan and instantly seeing everything from tiles to costs. HiStruct Roofs brings a fresh approach: no lengthy blueprints, just the results you need, right when you need them. Let’s make roof design and quoting simple!

Business

Roof Configurator

Tips

HiStruct in Action: From First Click to Final Quote

HiStruct gives you one unified tool to generate leads, create 3D models, and send out perfect price quotes – whether you're working with roofs, steel buildings, silos, modular constructions, or any other structure.

Business

Building Configurator

Roof Configurator

Grain Storage

Modular

HiStruct Easy Guide: How to Start a New Project and Jump Right Into Design

Here are some quick tips to get you going!

Building Configurator

Grain Storage

Roof Configurator

Silo

Tips

Project management improvements

Users of HiStruct can use the automatic naming of projects and components. When the name of Project or Component is kept blank it is generated automatically. Automatically generated name can be...

Sheds

Business

Parametric

Structural design automation

There is a big demand on quality and speed which sometimes goes in an opposite direction to customisation which isrequired by clients, in the construction industry. Involving strucural engineer ...

Building Configurator

Steel

Parametric

Product Updates

18.7.2024

Autor:

Hana Sanitrnik Minarikova

Optimizing Sales Workflow For Metal Buildings

Christmas is coming and with it our regular update of the HiStruct web configurator. This year we have a few handy improvements...

Building Configurator

Streamline PEB Design

Designing a steel building is often a complex and time-consuming task. Builders and sales engineers dedicate many hours to drafting plans, making revisions, and calculating quotes. But what if ...

Building Configurator

Steel

Parametric

New login to the HiStruct

The key improvement is that user can connect with Microsoft, Google or even GitHub account which brings great advantage in the sign-in process. Any user having an account with these companies does ...

Experience

Tips

How to share a 3D model

There is a very simple way to share your 3D model created in the configurator with anybody you communicate or cooperate with. Built-in features enable to automatically generate URLs ...

Client Stories

Sheds

Tips

HiStruct usability improvements

Improved speed of the application (not the engine behind) was achieved thanks to implementation of ASP.NET Core.Usability improvements resulted from the user experience and our intention of close...

Parametric

Business

Tips

Model view improvements

One of the key aspects of the HiStruct configurator is the interactive 3D model. The object, which is always in front of the eyes and reflects the creativity of the user. The viewer has...

Steel

Experience

Camera and performance update

Our latest version features new camera controls that allow for greater flexibility and precision when viewing and manipulating 3D models. In addition, we have made ...

Tips

Building Configurator

Grain Storage

Grain storage 3D design and quick quoting

In a grain storage industry, customers demand for quality and speed that sometimes goes in the opposite direction to customisation required by them. Sales teams need to be armed with...

Towers

Grain Storage

Silo

Easy configuration and design of silos

The steel silo market is always moving to higher technical specification, bigger dimensions and shorter delivery time. From professionals in the silo construction business, we know that ...

Grain Storage

Silo

Tips

Graphical improvements

The graphical interface and graphical representation of the designed object are two interconnected aspects of HiStruct. Such aspects are the major identifications and strongest values that HiStruct..

Business

Experience

Product Updates

3.6.2023

Autor:

Hana Sanitrnik Minarikova

3D Configurator upgrade is here

The announced upgrade of the HiStruct 3D configurator to the latest version is here. It brings several improvements that will make ...

Building Configurator

Configurator Software for Roofing Industry

‍Modern configurator software, like the HiStruct Roofs, is transforming how roofing manufacturers handle design and cost estimation. These tools ...

Business

Experience

Parametric

Easy configuration of steel buildings

HiStruct saves your salespeople time because customers are much further along in the design process before ever speaking with a sales person. Customers also have ...

Building Configurator

Tips

News

20.10.2022

Autor:

Hana Sanitrnik Minarikova

digitalBau 2023: HiStruct will be there

The digitalBau conference in Munich is just a few days away and we are looking forward to it. And we definitely have a reason to be excited. The conference will showcase...

Experience

Autor:

Collaboration in Construction Sales

From our experience to your success: Transforming collaboration in construction. Ineffective collaboration can not only cause financial losses, but also...

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What’s New in HiStruct 2026

HiStruct Easy Guide: How to Model a Roof by Outline

HiStruct Roofs: How to Save Material with a Smartly Designed Roof

HiStruct Easy Guide: How to Use Roof Planes Modeling for Maximum Flexibility in Roof Design

Invisible Roof Drawings Errors: Catch Them Before They Cost You

Clear Collaboration in Construction: How 3D Models Improve Teamwork

HiStruct User Management: Smarter Access Control with Custom Role Editing

HiStruct Memory Optimization: Faster Start, Smoother Workflows

HiStruct Easy Guide: From PDF to 3D Roof in Minutes

How to Impress Your Clients with a Perfect 3D Roof Model in Minutes

HiStruct Buildings: 3D Building Configurator to Design, Visualise and Quote Steel Buildings in Minutes

HiStruct Roofs: 3D Roof Configurator to Design, Visualise and Quote Roofs in Minutes

HiStruct in Action: From First Click to Final Quote

HiStruct Easy Guide: How to Start a New Project and Jump Right Into Design

Project management improvements

Structural design automation

Optimizing Sales Workflow For Metal Buildings

Streamline PEB Design

New login to the HiStruct

How to share a 3D model

HiStruct usability improvements

Model view improvements

Camera and performance update

Grain storage 3D design and quick quoting

Easy configuration and design of silos

Graphical improvements

3D Configurator upgrade is here

Configurator Software for Roofing Industry

Easy configuration of steel buildings

digitalBau 2023: HiStruct will be there

Collaboration in Construction Sales

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