What's New in EngView Package & Display Designer 2023.1

3D

Enhanced functionality of the Folding Angle Slider

In the contextual edit bar, the slider, with which you set the folding angle for an action, has been made more prominent. It now presents the folding angle information in greater detail and lets you set the angle of folding in a much more straightforward manner.

Folding panels into cones and cylinders

You can now fold panels along arcs and straight lines, and thus design conic and cylindrical surfaces. You prepare the design in 2D, and set the actual folding in the 3D drawing. For conic shapes, you apply the functionality on arcs; for cylindrical shapes on straight lines. You can use this type of folding for both designing single-piece products (bottleneck labels, coffee cups, party hats) and elements of multi-part structures.

As-you-go indication of the 3D model's user-facing side

On the 3D toolbar, the View Side icon — which you can use to position a panel to face its front, back, left, right, top or bottom side — has been given a second role: it now dynamically follows your rotating the model and indicates the view side that is facing you at each moment. This indication serves only visual purposes and does not change the set base panel.

Expanded View Options UI

You can now set the entire viewing environment of 3D scenes in a single dialog box. In the box, you set a scene's general view options, the colors for selected and highlighted panels, and how you want the dimension lines to appear. In earlier versions, you had to use different commands to access these groups of settings, but now they have been brought together to let you adjust your viewing environment in one go.

View 3D models in a combined Solid & Wireframe view

You can now view 3D models in a mode that combines the views Solid and Wireframe. This mode, called Solid Wired, lets you observe a model's edges in greater relief.

View 3D models without the perspective effect

You can now view 3D models in isometric view, which is a viewing mode with a field of view of 0. It removes the perspective effect and displays 3D models in a flat, simpler state. (You set the mode in the Projection area of the View Options dialog box.)

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Libraries

New designs and structures

The libraries have been expanded by:

• 6 designs in the Folding Carton Library.
• 48 FEFCO 0800 designs in the Corrugated Board Library.

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Drafting

Achieve precise drafting by using construction grids

You can now improve your drafting by constructing perpendicular and parallel helper grids on objects. A grid's key benefit is that it lets you use its lines as distance markers that help you draw objects at exact distances.

Assisted breaking and trimming of overlapping objects

When breaking and trimming overlapping objects, EngView now offers you a hint that helps you make the right decision about which object to break or trim. The hint gives you information about the overlapping objects (their IDs, styles, and lengths), making it an easy choice.

Use whole numbers for the Dx and Dy coordinates offsets during drafting and dragging

When drawing and dragging objects, you can use a functionality that snaps the Dx and Dy offsets to a system grid defined by the current zoom factor. When starting a new drawing, the default zoom factor causes the grid to produce whole numbers for the Dx and Dy offset values (in the contextual edit bar) — for example, 12.00; 45.0; 33.000. As you zoom in or out, the grid becomes denser or rarer, respectively, and EngView switches to decimals to display the exact values of the Dx and Dy offsets.

Automatic display of decimal values when working with imprecise formats

When drawing and moving objects, you can set EngView to automatically switch to a decimal format of displaying values if the format you use use currently falls short. This is especially helpful when working with fractions, which do not always display distances accurately. To resolve this, EngView can now be set to automatically switch to decimals when displaying such values.

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Design frame and print presentations

Customizing the black-and-white view for snapshots

You can now set your way of displaying the black-and-white snapshot that you can use in print drawings. The settings are adjusted in the 3D module but apply solely in the 3D area in print drawings.

Scale print parts by applying a specific fixed ratio

You can now scale print parts by applying an individual scale ratio to each part. Alongside the existing scaling method, which lets you group parts and scale them in relation to the largest one, you can now use a specific scale ratio — for example, 1:10, 1:5, or other — which you apply to each print part that you want to scale.

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Other new functionalities

More global settings for the export to PDF

You can now set an expanded array of settings for exporting projects to the PDF file format. The new settings are set globally and work in tandem with the general settings for export to PDF.

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