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Step 1: Login

Visit higharc.com and login.

You should have an account with your company email account.
If you have trouble logging in please contact support@higharc.com

Step 2: Set up a Community

Create a new Community

Communities are collections of homes in Higharc, here you can configure your master plans and create lot-specific construction sets, bills of materials and CAD packages for consultants.

Create a new Community > Fill out Community Details

Create a new Community > Add Master Plans

Edit Community Standards (optional)

With Higharc, you have the power to easily change common architectural standards for plans in your community. Once you have created a new community, click the utility menu [···] in the header and select Edit Community Standards.

Browse the list of architectural standards, choose which default settings to override for the community. From the right side of the header, click Save & Exit once you’re done making changes.

Step 3: Use Master Plans in your Community

Select Add Community Plan to use a Master Plan from your library in this community. Then, you can customize availability of its elevations and options, and set pricing and base conditions specifically for this community.

Use Master Plans in your Community > Add Community Plan

Use Master Plans in your Community > Choose a Master Plan

Use Master Plans in your Community > Name your Community Plan

Community Plan added to your Community!

Now that you’ve added a Community Plan (an editable instance of a Master Plan) to your Community, you can make sweeping changes to things like elevations, options, and architectural standards. Changes like this to the community plan can have downstream affects on associated home plans (instances of a community plan that are lot-specific relative to a specific community).

Customize your Elevations

You can enable or disable elevations for a community, change the price or descriptions associated with an elevation, or change the base elevation.

Manage Options

Scroll through the list of available options and deselect any option to remove it from the plan in this community. For any lot with this plan in the community, your customers may choose from any enabled option.

Adjust Pricing and Base Conditions

Set what is included in the base price and set a price for any option for the home specific to this community.

Edit Architectural Standards

Browse the list of architectural standards, choose which default settings to override for the community plan.

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Review and save changes to your Community Plan

Review changes to settings, select home plans (if they already exist) to inherit said changes, and save your Community Plan.

Step 4: Create a Home Plan for a spec or customer

The home plan is where you can set up a lot-specific home with all of its options and walk through the process of customizing the home with customers.

Add a new home plan by selecting ‘Create a Home Plan’. You’ll provide some basic information about the lot and/or customer and then configure the home with the Higharc Viewer.

Create a Home Plan for a spec or customer > Create a Home Plan

Create a Home Plan for a spec or customer > Enter builder plan info

Create a Home Plan for a spec or customer > Select a Community Plan

While it’s being created, time to configure your Home Plan...

Configure the Home Plan: Select an Elevation and Options

Customers can select the elevation of their choice and choose options. They can even choose to do so in 3D. Every configuration made is represented on the lot-specific plan set.

Your Home Plan has been created!

Step 5: Download CDs, BOM, and CAD files

Every home plan in Higharc has its own set of option-specific CDs, take-offs, and CAD files. Simply choose a community and click to the “Home Plans” section to find the plan you’re looking for. Here are some things to do on the Home Plan page generally speaking and for each life cycle phase...

General Purpose

View the Plan Summary
Leave a comment
Assign a different Plan Owner

Phase 1: Plan Preparation

Invite a Customer to view and edit the home plan (optional)
Download and view the Plan Brochure (PDF) — coming soon...
Configure it (also in 3D)
Move the Home Plan to Phase 2: Pre-Construction

Phase 2: Plan Preparation

Invite a Purchasing Manager to view and approve the home plan (optional)
Download and review Construction documents: Plan Set (PDF), Bill of Materials (XLSX) — also known as BOM, and the DXF (CAD)
Move the Home Plan to Phase 3: Construction

Phase 3: Construction

Feed your BOM into your favorite estimating tool and/or ERP and build your option specific floor plan.

Start here!