What's New in EngView Package & Display
Designer 2024.1
Integrations
Build 2024.1.12
- Integration with
PACKZ, Hybrid Software's packaging and labels editor
- EngView is now partner
in an integration solution for packaging design with PACKZ, the
software for editing of labels and packaging of the Ghent-based
graphic arts software developer Hybrid Software. The integration
divides the process of packaging creation into two stages:
- In EngView, structural designers create projects and upload
them to a jobs queue on the cloud. Learn more about how EngView
manages this stage.
- In PACKZ, users access the queue, take jobs, and start
working on them.
The integration takes
effect as of EngView 2024.1.12 and PACKZ 10.
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3D
Build 2024.1.15
- More features in the display of distance dimensions
- You now have greater control over the display of dimensions
for distances in 3D models. New
controls let you choose whether you want to see:
- The symbols of the chosen units of measurement — mm, in,
cm, and so on.
- Alternative units of measurement. These appear below the
dimension line.
Additionally, you can now select multiple
dimension lines in 3D models. You then can set properties
for them that will apply to all the lines you have selected.
Build 2024.1.12
- Overall dimensions follow point of view
- When you rotate the 3D model, the overall
dimensions you have added to the model move, too, positioning
themselves so as to always appear in front of the panels and visible
to you. You set this setting whle setting
the general conditions for viewing dimensions in 3D models.
- Spatial positioning of overall dimensions
- You now have three options for positioning 3D models' overall
dimensions so as to make them visible all the time while you rotate
and move the model in the 3D area. You set this setting whle setting
the general conditions for viewing dimensions in 3D models.
Build 2024.1.5
- Export 3D models as AR-friendly content to Shared Space
- When exporting 3D models to Shared Space, you can now set them
up for environments that support Augmented Reality (AR) on mobile
devices. Using a new control (the Enable Augmented Reality View
check box) in the Upload to Shared Space dialog
optimizes the model content to be viewable in AR apps. (For best
results set 'Start At: ---End---'.) On the Shared Space navigation
bar, there is a new AR button, which opens your AR app. With the
app open, point the device to a flat serface, and move your device
until a round indicator appears. Then double-click it to view
the 3D design against your surroundings.
- Export 3D models to the .mp4 file format
- You can now export 3D models to the .mp4 file
format and experience the animated folding sequence.
- Add public 3D models on Shared Space to your Shared With Me
collection
- On Shared Space, you can now add publicly shared 3D models
to the collection of models others have shared specifically with
you. After you add a model, it remains viewable to everyone else.
A Shared Space registration is required.
- Copying 3D drawings
- You can now copy
3D drawings: right-click the drawing's tab, and then click
Copy drawing on the context menu. You can copy:
- An individual part. The underlying 2D drawing is
not copied.
- An entire 3D model. Here you copy only the assembled
drawing. The rest of the 3D drawings are not copied.
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Library
Index of Parametric Templates
Build 2024.1.15
- New templates
- Five parametric templates have been added to the ECMA section
of the Library of Packaging Templates, as follows:
- ECMA A: A55.20.01.01; A55.20.01.04.35; A60.20.00.04.35
- ECMA B: B20.01.82.53
- ECMA E: E31.20.00.00.A
In earlier builds
- New design and functionalities
- The Index
has been redesigned and comes with a set of new functionalities.
These include:
- Toggable 2D/3D views At any time while browsing
for templates, you can switch between viewing their previews
in 2D or 3D. This gives you a quick glimpse at what the template
looks like in its structural and folded states. Depending
on the choice you make, just pointing to a template's preview
immediately visualizes the alternative view.
- Hints for resizable templates with similar designs
When you open a template, the Index displays also templates
that differ from it by a small feature. For example, if you
are viewing a template that has a V-Cut insert, the same template
appears at its side but designed with a half-cut insert. By
immediately offering such structural options, these hints
shorten the time for searching for a template.
- Improved searchability Searching for templates is
now much more straightforward: Just type a code or a specific
characteristic, and explore the results.
- Open templates from previews When you locate the
template you need, you can open it directly in EngView or
Adobe Illustrator from its preview, without opening its Index
file.
- New templates
- The libraries have been expanded by:
- 182 templates in the Packaging Structures section:
163 for folding carton, 13 for corrugated board, and 6 for
grey board.
- 17 templates in the Displays and Furniture section.
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Drafting
Build 2024.1.15
- Greater control over Master Canvas 1ups
- Two new functionalities now give you greater control over 1ups
in the Master Canvas drawings:
- Disperse ups adds space between 1ups that are too
close to one another.
- Line up 1ups puts all the 1ups in a straight horizontal
line along the Ox.
- Choose between stay or exit a relation mode after setting a
relation in component design
- When setting manually relations while designing parameteric
components, you can tell EngView to stay in the selected relation-setting
mode after setting
a relation or to exit the mode immediately.
- Alternative units of measurement for distances
- For measuring distances, you can now use alternative
units of measurement, which you can add at dimensions lines.
For example, if your global preference for units of measurement
is millimeters, you can choose inches as an alternative units.
In this way, you can follow distances in the two units at the
same time.
- Choose to view measurement symbols at dimension lines
- When displaying units of measurements at dimension lines, you
can choose whether or not to see the measurement symbols — mm,
in, cm, and so on. You can set this display globally
for the program or locally
per dimension line.
- The Use Backgrounds command has been retired and broken down
to two new commands
- The Use Backgrounds command, which used to be on the Format
menu and enforced the use of the background colors set for materials,
has been retired and broken down to two new commands. Both are
now part of the definition
of colors. They share a group called Use Background Colors
Set For. The two commands are:
- Materials-based drawings (1up, layout, CAM). Drawings that
carry their own material use their preset color.
- Material Surfaces.
The check boxes play a role when you define the colors for backgrounds,
including in presets. To use the colors specifically set for materials,
make sure both check boxes are selected. To set your drafting
colors, on the Tools menu, click Preferences, and then click the
Drafting Colors section.
Build 2024.1.12
- Quick access to material name, type, and material
thickness at the Front/Rear Marker
- The Front/Rear side marker, which displays the side you are
working on, now offers a tooltip with quick reference to the following
information: material name and current thickness; material type,
and name and size of the applied sheet. To see the tooltip, position
the mouse pointer over the marker in the upper left corner of
the graphical area.
Build 2024.1.5
- Target icon over control point
- You now get visual indication when reaching a control point.
A small crosshairs icon appears at the mouse pointer when a control
point is detected. This comes in handy especially while drawing
objects or to assist aligning.
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Integration
with Adobe® Illustrator®
Build 2024.1.12
- Capability to merge duplicated objects into a single object
while creating a Step & Repeat layout drawings
- When generating a layout drawing in the Step
& Repeat functionality, you can now choose to merge duplicated
objects into a single object, which is then processed by a single
movement of the tool. The setting is now part of the redesigned
layout generation dialog box (see the following entry).
- All layout generating settings are now in a single dialog
- All the options that you use to generate
Step & Repeat layouts have been brought together into
one dialog box. When you move to generate a layout, all the necessary
settings — side, bleed application, merging die-lines — come to
you as a single set.
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Diemaking
Build 2024.1.15
- New offsets for stripping die offsets and front stripper heights
- In the process of stripping
die generation, new upper limits have been introduced for
the heights of the front strippers and the offsets of the stripping
die. The new limits are:
- 500 mm for the heights of the upper and lower front strippers.
- 250 mm for the offsets of (1) the cutting knife of the
front stripping die and (2) the male and female stripping
dies.
Build 2024.1.12
- Copying bridges drawings
- You can now copy
bridges drawings. A copied drawing is a 1up drawing which
carries all the information as the original drawing but allows
the addition of new objects. This comes in especially handy when
working with the Baysek rotary anvil die-cutting technology, in
which additional vacuum channels are engraved on a die's rear
side. Learn more about bridges
drawings.
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Sheet layout
Build 2024.1.5
- Display Nesting: Layouts of multipart structures on rolled
materials
- When creating layouts, you can now use nesting
on a rolled material. Using rolled materials produces leftover
material, which you can use in subsequent jobs. Under this technique,
EngView keeps track of all the leftover rolled material, which
you can then use for subsequent jobs. Information about the currently
available material is kept in a special store catalog.
- Display Nesting: Keeping track of available materials
- When creating layout
nesting on a rolled material, EngView now keeps track of the
leftover material. EngView stores this information in the Materials
Store Catalog, and updates it automatically after each completed
nesting job to reflect the changed amount of layout material.
- Exclamation mark alerts to different thickness/flute
directions in layout parts
- In layout drawings, tooltips have been added to the exclamation
mark that appears in the upper left to indicate alerts. The sign
now appears each time when the layout array consists of multiple
parts which have different:
- Material thickness.
- Flute/grain directions.
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CAM
Build 2024.1.10
- Enhanced definition of sample counter
- Two new properties have been added to the definition
of sample counters:
- Material thickness: You can now indicate the thickness
of the material that you will use for the production of sample
counters. This information is then sent to the cutting plotter.
- Creasing styles: You can specify styles other than
Creasing that you want EngView to treat as creases when generating
sample counters. You set these additional styles — for example,
CutCrease or Plotting — and as a result EngView creates creasing
channels also for them.
Build 2024.1.5
- Improved CAM output to Zünd Cut Center (ZCC)
- The Zünd CAM driver has been reworked to manage the ZCC material
information accurately. The new driver matches the EngView material
data to that of the ZCC material and outputs the relevant information.
When a material database is changed, the driver is easy to adapt
without programming.
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Cost Estimator
Build 2024.1.14
- Made-Changes warning in cost models UI
- When you have made any changes to a cost model and accidentally
press ESC, EngView now displays a warning that the changes you
have made will be lost if you proceed. This warning prevents accidental
data losses.
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Other new
functionalities
Build 2024.1.15
- The global preferences property sheet now appears in a new
design and name. New settings added.
- The property sheet where you set your preferences
for EngView's default behavior in handling common tasks has
been redesigned, renamed and expanded. New settings have been
added such as (1) the catalog for materials on rolls, (2) the
management of materials and processes, (3) the setting of drafting
colors, (4) the management of parameter templates, and (5) the
settings for CAM-related operations.
The property sheet, which used to be called Options, is now called
Preferences. To access it, on the Tools menu, click Preferences
or, alternatively, press CTRL + GO.
- The Format menu has been retired
- The Format menu has been removed and is no longer part of EngView's
user interface. The commands that it used to hold are now part
of the global
preferences property sheet.
- The commands for zooming and fitting of drawings are now grouped
on the View menu and on context menus
- On the View menu, a new submenu now holds the commands for
positioning the drawing you are working on in the visual area.
The submenu, called Zoom, now holds the commands for:
The Zoom submenu is available also when you right-click in the
graphical area, where it has replaced the earlier View group of
commands. For details, see the next entry.
- On context menus, the View group of commands is now called
Zoom
- Across the program, context menus that used to contain the
View group of commands now offer the same set
of commands of commands (see the previous entry) but under
the group name Zoom.
- Further access to switching between a drawing's front and rear
side
- A new command that lets you switch between the front and the
rear side of the active drawing has been added to the View menu.
The command, Front Side, has the same effect as using the side-related
context menu at the Front/Rear Side Marker. To improve user
experience, this command has been removed from all the context
menus that used to contain it.
- Choose how to access shared settings and libraries during setup
- When installing the program, the Installation Type wizard step,
where you select the type of installation (local or in a network),
has been redesigned to better guide you in your choice of how
to access shared settings and libraries. A special
case here is when your installation is part of a network.
In this case, you can:
- Access the libraries and settings from a location where
they have already been installed.
- Install the libraries and settings (locally or in a network)
to be accessed by other workstations.
Build 2024.1.12
- An Integrations section is now part of EngView's global settings
- An Integrations tab has been added to the property sheet where
you manage the program's global
preferences. In the tab, authorized users log in to enable
integration solutions that EngView has with external software.
- G-code import preset for importing ACM file
- A new G-code preset
now makes possible the import
into EngView of ACM files, which run Kongsberg-manufactured cutting
machines. The preset is named ACM.
Build 2024.1.5
- The Show Hidden Objects icon is now in grey
- In the graphical area's upper left corner, the eye icon that
tells you that the current drawing contains objects that are hidden
from view now appears in grey.
- Copying 2D drawings and their 3D drawings
- When copying a 2D drawing, you can now choose whether to copy
also the 3D drawing created from it. You can copy the 3D drawing
only if it has already been created; EngView will not create a
3D drawing if one does not exist. Learn more about copying 3D drawings.
- Sheet size directly visible on the screen
- You can see the size of a sheet directly in the 1up or layout
drawing, appearing at the sheet's border. A global
viewing setting (Sheet size information) controls this functionality.
- Flute/grain symbols are inserted with their own styles and
names
- When you insert
symbols for the flute or grain into drawings, you can now set
the name and style that EngView will use to indicate these symbols.
This is a global setting, which means that each time you insert
such a symbol, EngView applies the set
style and name.
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