What's New in EngView Package & Display Designer 2025.1

3D Drafting Library Index of Parametric Templates Diemaking Sheet Layout Design frames and print presentations Cost Estimator Other new functionalities Release Notes

3D

Build 2025.1.1

Switch to solid and transparent visualization of models exported to 3D HTML
In files exported to the 3D HTML format, a new button on the control bar switches the model's visualization from solid to transparent, and the other way around.
The control toolbar in 3D HTML exports is identical with the one in Shared Space
In files exported to the 3D HTML format, the control toolbar that you use for working with 3D models has been redesigned to resemble the one in Shared Space.
View points supported in 3D HTML exports
Exports to the 3D HTML format now support the View Point functionality. While playing a model's folding sequence, the program displays all the viewpoints the designer has inserted.
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Drafting

Build 2025.1.5

In Fix Assistant, a new hatching type alerts about noncutting outer panels
A new type of hatching in the Fix Assistant tool for detecting drafting errors in drawings now lets you locate outer panels that are formed by objects that are not meant to be cut. Although such objects may form perfectly closed panel contours, as they are not meant to be cut, they prevent the correct generation of cutting jobs. Learn more about how to read drawings that display this new type of hatching.

Build 2025.1.4

Creating compound components out of multiple single components
A workflow case of how to create a compound component out of multiple idientical single components.
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Library Index of Parametric Templates

Build 2025.1.1

Search the Packaging Templates Library by keywords
You can now use keywords to search the Parametric Library of Packaging Templates for the parametric template that you need. The templates are now tagged with 100 keywords in three categories — by template type, structural element, and product. When browsing the Library, you can type a keyword into the search bar, and then click Search. You then see only the templates tagged with the keyword you have typed. Learn more about how to use keywords to search for templates.
New designs and structures
The libraries have been expanded by a total of 52 templates and structures, as follows:
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Diemaking

Build 2025.1.5

Improved, user-friendly placement of custom components into stripping die drawings
You can now use an improved placement technique for inserting custom components (parametric components) into stripping die drawings. It is identical with how you insert similar features in layouts. Now when you start inserting these components, you can use controls in the contextual edit bar (above the graphical area) to position these components by directly rotating and/or mirroring them before the actual placement. Also available for direct editing are the components' parameters.
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Sheet Layout

Build 2025.1.4

Expanded options for flipped designs
When you flip a design, you have several options to choose the right response as your situation requires.
Sheet suggestions listed by applicability
Suggestions for the applicable sheet now appear at the top of suggested sheets in the Sheet Properties dialog box.
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Design frames and print presentations

Build 2025.1.1

Extract information from object filters into print drawings
When appllying object filters, you can extract the results from the selections they have produced into design frames for the purposes of print presentations. You can extract information about:
Extract information from custom properties to materials
You can use formulas to extract data from custom properties set to materials.
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Cost Estimator

Build 2025.1.1

Extract information from object filters into cost models
When appllying object filters, you can extract the results from the selections they have produced into cost models for the purposes of cost estimation. You can extract information about:
Use the values of custom properties to materials in cost models
You can use formulas to extract the values of custom properties set to materials and use them in cost models.
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Other new functionalities

Build 2025.1.5

Setting a default printing job response
You can now set the default response of the printing job button on the program's main panel. You can choose between (1) previewing a drawing before printing it out and (2) directly printing the drawing without a preview. Learn more about how the two modes work and how to set up the default button.

Build 2025.1.4

Library templates open with enabled different materials for each drawing
When creating projects from Library templates (.evr files), you can now use a different material for each individual drawing right at the start of the new project. A new setting makes this default EngView behavior.
Layer-specific settings add precision to exports to and imports of CFF, DDES and N files
Export and import styles associations or the .cff, .dds and .n file formats now take account of the involved layers' types, sides and names. When defining import/export style associations for these file formats, you can specify the side, name and type of the layers applied to panels. You view these settings also in the dialog boxes that offer general reviews of the associations.
Extended unitconv() function with an option for rounding
The unitconv() function, which automatically switches between metric systems, now has an extension for rounding.
Click-by-click menu path shows what's behind keyboard shortcuts
When you are managing keyboard shortcuts, you can now follow the actual click-by-click sequence that is behind a shortcut. A new column in the dialog box displays the sequence. This is a sort of visual aid to how the command works.

Build 2025.1.1

Object filters
Objects filters, the preset rules for selecting objects, have been modified in two ways:
  • Apart from the earlier in-drawing definition, now you can define a filter in the Tools | Preferences | Objects Filters section.
  • Their role has been expanded. While previously you could uses them only as selection filters, now you can use them to supply data for project presentations and for cost estimation. For this, there are now two types of filters:
    • Local. Used only for selections.
    • Shared. Used for both selections and data extraction.
Enrich materials with custom properties
Apart from the hard-coded properties of materials, such as thickness, type, grammage, you can now define your own, custom properties. These are most often used when EngView is integrated with other software or in automation solutions that require special processing. For example, you can use custom properties to map the materials of your company's catalog of materials to those of EngView. As a result, you can then easily cross-refer between the two catalogs.

When you export or import materials, the custom properties defined for these materials are exported/imported too.

Sheet Size Sort by Applicability
When manipulating the sheet size through the Sheet Properties dialog box, the sheet size listed in the drop down list sorts the sheets by how relevant they are to the job at hand: The higher the sheet position, the most suitable it is for the layout.
While Browsing, Icons Take You to Other Destinations
In File | Open dialog boxes, new icons mark shortcuts to other locations and the user interface is now nearly identical with the one of Windows Explorer.
Natural Sorting of File Names
In File | Open dialog boxes, file names now follow the natural sorting scheme. See an example.
For .evr file-based projects, make the use of different materials the default behavior
For projects based on ready-to-use parametric templates (.evr files), you can make the use of different materials for new projects based on an .evr files (either from the Library or custom-made) to be the default Prinect behavior.
Creating layers and setting them sides now involves fewer steps
The dialog box in which you define a layer has been redesigned and now includes settings for the layer's side and name. This spares you the earlier, and longer, procedure of first creating a layer and then switching its side.
Scale text control has been retired
The Scale text control in the global preferences | View section is no longer available. Its functionality is now part of the general procedure for scaling drawings and text.
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