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Integration of Synergy functionalities as a separate module
Integration with Adobe® Illustrator®
Design frames and print presentations
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HERE ARE OVERVIEWS OF THE NEW FUNCTIONALITIES. LEARN MORE ABOUT EACH FUNCTIONALITY BY FOLLOWING THE LINKS.
You can now apply articles to structures. Articles are sets of graphical designs (artworks) created for the front and rear side of a specific structure. Within an article, you can pair the various artworks for the front and rear side of the structure and thus produce a palette of combinations for the structure's front and rear. Once applied, articles accompany the structure throughout the production process: in the design of layout, in the presentation of projects through print drawings, and the CAM-controlled production process.
You can create and apply artworks in Package Designer and Adobe® Illustrator®, and inspect their effect in the 3D module.
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drawing multi-part structures in a single drawing (master canvas) When drawing a multiple-part structure, you can now draw all the sketches for the parts in a single drawing. After you have decided on the number and structure of the individual parts, you can convert the sketches into 1ups and proceed working with them all the way to the production stage.
Perfa FONTS: use and creation You can now apply perfa fonts to structures, and also create your own perfa fonts.
Vector fonts: use and design You can now create your own vector fonts, and use them in projects. An EngView installation comes with Cyrillic 19, an in-house developed vector font with Cyrillic symbols.
Managing text in free-standing text containers You can now arrange the spatial positioning of the text in free-standing text containers. You can expand the text if it is too short and you need it to fill out the entire available space. Conversely, you can shrink it to fill the available area.
placeholder objects A packGATE functionality. Placeholder objects make possible the change of graphical design through the packGATE UI. Placeholder objects can be images, bar codes and QR codes, and text.
CUSTOM Drafting color sets You can now create your own drafting colors sets, which you can use while working with variously colored backgrounds of the graphical area. The use of color sets does not affect printed out and exported drawings.
Front/rear side markers drawing icon The upper left corner menu that controls the point of view (front or rear) has been expanded with flute direction settings.
Displaying STYLE symbols You can set the way the program displays style symbols in new projects, projects from resizable designs, and projects originating from imported drawings.
ADDING BRAILLE TEXTS and creating braille fonts The Braille text functionality has been expanded by introducing two modes of positioning Braille text: for visualization purposes within the program and for production-related purposes, in which you use a matrix. Further, you can now design your own Braille fonts.
Gap Detection The functionality that detects drafting errors in imported drawings has been expanded with an option that puts the unconnected ends designated as gaps in a separate group.
ignoring near-zero-length unconnected ends The functionality that detects drafting errors in imported drawings has been expanded with an option that lets you set the program to ignore tangential gaps and unconnected ends whose distances are of near-zero lengths.
Automatic extraction of transformation distances in scaling and rotation The distances needed for scaling and rotating with reference can now be extracted automatically from the drawing.
Four transformation modes automatically enter "Detect Relations with Pointed-To Objects Only" mode When you are in the transformation modes translation, rotation, mirroring or scaling, the program automatically indicates the relations available to the objects you touch with the mouse pointer. Relations with other objects are ignored.
releasing on-relations during dragging When dragging groups of selected objects, you can now choose to move only some of them and leave others in place based on the types of on-relations between the objects. Once dragging has started, use three new modes that let you make a decision based on how the objects are connected at their control points.
visual ANGLE VALUE hints in THE Beginning-end-center arc-drawing mode. Drawing an arc in the Beginning-End-Center mode is now easier more intuitive. After your second click, which sets the end point of the arc and thus forms the sector that holds the arc, as you are moving the mouse, the program starts following the angle between the sector's radii. Each time an angle divisible by 45 degrees (45, 90, 135, 180, 225, 270, and so on) is formed between the two radii, a visual hint appears at the center of the sector. This alerts you about the available angle, and you can click to fix the sector's center without paying specific attention on the exact angle value.
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The functionalities of Synergy, the former standalone application for creating parametric components and resizable templates, are now part of EngView, grouped in a separate module. This means that now you can design your own resizable components and templates (.evr files) directly in EngView, and then use them in projects. The functionality behind this is a variational and parametric design technology that helps you draw and modify objects by means of parameters that are set to dimensions between objects.
As a result of the use of parameterizing functionalities, two new types of drawings have been introduced to the program:
Resizable drawings. Drawings in which you can alter objects' sizes and distances by editing their parameters. This type of drawing originates when you start creating a project from a resizable designs or an external 3D objects, or start creating a resizable template. A blue dot in the drawing's icon tab indicates this type of drawing.
Nonresizable drawings. Drawings in which the objects are not controlled by parameters. That is, you cannot edit a parameter to alter an object's size and object editing is done by manual drawing. This type of drawing originates when you start a blank project, a project from an imported file, or copy a drawing from a resizable drawing. In the graphical area, this type of drawing appears with an unornamented icon in the icon tab.
In the program's environment, you can find the parametric design functionalities in the new Relations tab.
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Folding Along Arcs (Pillow Pack Folding) EngView can now perform folding along arcs. When the drawing contains an arc and its two panels need to be folded, the program automatically folds them at 90 degrees to achieve the needed deformation. What you need to do is just edit the folding angle, if this is necessary. For examples of pillow pack folding, consider the EVF12001 structure in the Library of Resizable Structures or see the Chocolate (articles).evd file in the Samples folder of your installation's EngViewWork7 directory.
External objects in STEP and IGES file formats You can now insert external objects in the STEP and IGES file formats.
3D output export Package can now export 3D output to:
The Web 3D file format. EngView can now export 3D models — as still scenes and as animations — to the Web 3D file format, which makes exported 3D files viewable in web browsers. The export is possible with or without shader-borne features*: in Files of type, select the Web 3D or Web 3D (NOGLSL) options, respectively.
The Collada file format: The export is possible with or without shader-borne features*: in Files of type, select Collada Format Compressed or Collada Format Compressed (NOGLSL)* options, respectively.
* Shader-borne features are effects such as smooth edges along crease lines, imprint effects (embossing and debossing) and varnished surfaces. But if after the file export you want to import the 3D file to computer graphics software — for example, Autodesk 3ds Max (version 16 or later are supported) — select the NOGLSL option.
CODE WORD REFERENCE TO 3D model phaseS When writing formulas, you can now use code words to refer to predefined phases in the 3D model. Used in formulas, code words target the phases ignoring the language in which the phase names are written. This makes it possible to refer to 3D phases in formulas regardless of the language the phase names are written.
Enhanced properties for the 3D model Dimension lines You can now set how you want the dimension lines on the 3D model to appear on the screen and when the 3D model view has been printed out. You can set both default options and one-off appearance (color and font).
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generation of print files from layout The integration generates print-ready .ai file from layout drawings with applied articles.
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ENHANCED Nicks placement The nick placement functionality has been expanded by options for placing single and multiple nicks. Both single and multiple nicks now appear as single-, two- and three-notch objects that you can place onto cutting tools.
SUPPORT TOOLS IN SEPARATE DRAWINGS А new functionality lets die manufacturers to create individual support tools in separate drawings, and then create bridge drawings from each one. The functionality addresses the preference of die manufacturers who use smaller-sized boards made from waste materials to cut support tools.
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Splitting objects at start point A functionality has been introduced that allows the cutting job to begin at the exact point where the tool head is positioned.
1up NICK-related OPTIONS CAM templates have been expanded with options for processing of nicks (gaps or markers) from 1up drawings.
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production run OPTIMIZATION You can now define the production run according to your specific needs. During the placement of layout 1ups (parts) into the graphical area, the program gives you immediate guidance in the tabular area about how many parts you can add or remove from the layout to have your run produced with the fewest number of sheets.
PARTS COLLISION PREVENTION While you are placing layout 1ups (parts) into an array, an automatic detection occurs of the parts' edges. The functionality alerts you about the overlapping of adjacent parts and prevents the part that is being added from overlapping another part. The functionality also detects the borders of the sheet and prevents the part being placed from crossing over the sheet border.
Ignoring structure-irrelevant objects (styles) While generating a layout array, the program ignores all objects that are not related to the definition of the hard tool (die).
Layout parts exported in separate SUBs in CFF files When exporting layout drawings to the CFF file format, you can export layout parts as separate SUBs, in separate drawings. Before exporting, you also can set a naming pattern for the exported layout parts.
FLIPPING layout parts While creating an layout, you can now position layout parts by flipping them. Part-flipping consists in the vertical mirroring a part without altering the position of the original 1up. You can apply flipping both to layout parts that are about to be placed and to parts placed earlier. The part-flipping functionality is accessible both in manual layout and when using a template-based array definition.
PLACING PRINT MARKS You can now position print marks to 1ups and layout drawings. Print marks are production-stage symbols that give producers guidance as to trimming, sheet alignment, proofs calibration, and other production-related operations.
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Perfa fonts formulas A set of formulas has been added for extracting data from perfa fonts for use in cost models.
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Scale GROUPS in print drawings Scale groups are sets of print drawing parts to which a common scale factor is applied. This guarantees that when printed out or seen on the screen the drawings appear in proportion to each other. The functionality comes in handy especially for printing and viewing 1ups or layout drawings of components of displays. Normally in displays, some parts are much larger than others and would appear out of proportion on-screen or on paper if each part uses its own scale factor.
Scaling of style pattern in legends In legends, composite styles can now be scaled by selecting an appropriate scale pattern.
Hiding style symbols in design frame areas You can hide style symbols in the predefined rectangular areas of print drawings.
Decimal point precision in measurement units In legends, you can set how precise you want measurement units to be by choosing the decimal point display.
Perfa fonts formulas A set of formulas has been added for extracting data about the use of texts in perfa fonts.
Tree-like structure for selection of design frameS Design frames can now be grouped by properties in multiple folders in the DESIGN FRAME directory. When you select a design frame for a print drawing, you can browse the tree-like structure.
3d model solid Black-and-white VISUALIZATION In the setting up of the 3D model presentation in both design frames and print drawings, you can now use a solid-panel black-and-white mode. The functionality comes in handy especially for creating assembly instructions (descriptions of a step-by-step process of assembling products).
Code words for referring to 3D model phases Code words have been introduced that refer to the phases of 3D models. The code words can be cited in formulas instead of the actual names of the 3D phases. This frees users that use the program in languages other than English from the need to translate the phase names — they simply cite the code words and the program calculates the result.
Space-separated style names in formulas When style names are cited in formulas, they may now appear in languages other than English and may consist of multiple space-separated words. For the program to process them correctly, they need to be enclosed in question marks.
POINT-AND-TYPE EDITING OF TEXT IN PRINT DRAWINGS Text editing in print drawings is now intuitive — you point to the editable text field and begin typing. The typed text automatically appears in the tabular area (in the field's Data cell), and is fixed in the print drawing when you press ENTER. NOTE: All editable text is highlighted when you point to the frame's borders. The editable text's default color is Magenta.
Bridge drawings into print drawings During the creation of print drawings, you can add bridge drawings. (1) If you choose not to use a design frame, you can insert a bridge drawing directly into the graphical area. (2) When a design frame is used, in the print drawing wizard you associate a bridge drawing to either 1up area or the layout area as the case requires.
Choosing the presentation of composite styles in print drawing legends You can now set how you want composite styles to appear in print drawing legends. While you are setting the properties of a legend, you can choose how you want the program to display composite styles — in simplified visualization or with the exact pattern that will appear on the media upon production. Learn more about a composite style's actual structure and how you can set it to appear on the screen.
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Setting THE help system IN GERMAN OR JAPANESE By default, EngView offers its help system in English, German and Japanese, with English being the default language. If you want to read the help system in German or Japanese, you need to set the respective help system in the System Configuration Utility.
SHARING MATERIALS You can now export materials that you want to share with other designers. For example, if you make changes to a material or define a new material that you want other designers to use, you export it in a separate file, which the others import into other installations. The sharing of materials ensures that a material has the same properties — type, appearance, textures, borders – in each installation that uses it.
Modified SYNTAX OF THE Fn function The syntax of the Fn function, which checks the presence of an argument expression in value intervals, has been modified — you no longer need to assign values for the endmost positions of the function's value range.
OBJECT Length statistics in 1UP AND LAYOUT DRAWINGS (Version 7.1.62 and later) In 1up and layout drawings, you can find information about the total length of the objects by the styles applied to them. In the drawing, open the tabular area (press CTRL+H), and then click the Styles tab. For each style, the Length column displays the total length of the objects in that style in the drawing. The total length displayed there is identical with the values you see in the Statistics functionality (Length).
unit-agnostic parameterization A function has been introduced that converts the units used during the parametrization of a structure into other units. For example, if a structure was parameterized in millimeters and you use it in a project that works in inches, the function ensures that you see the values of parameterized properties in inches.
Use OF Keywords FOR PROJECT DESCRIPTION To describe and classify projects, you can now add keywords.
DEFAULT PREVIEW drawing on project open (Version 7.1.62 and later) You can now set the drawing in a project that you want the program to show in the preview area while you are browsing for a project to open.
Expanded options in CFF/DDS file export The options for exporting drawing to CFF and DDES file formats have been extended with three new options that let you fine-tune the exported output. You can now (1) set a pattern for how the program numbers the parts in the layout array in the exported CFF files; (2) remove spaces from the names of subroutines; and (3) set a maximum length of the names of subroutines.
DISABLING the Export of production thickness in DXF and DWG formats By default, files that EngView exports in the DXF or DWG file formats carry objects' thickness set for production purposes. However, Adobe Illustrator treats the thickness in this file format in a way that creates structural problems. To prevent this, you can now disable the export of the material thickness in DXF/DWG files. This ensures that your work in Illustrator will run as expected.
Mirrored composite style orientation for zipper-carrying structures on view side change The program can now mirror the orientation of composite styles when you switch the view side for files with zippers created with versions prior to version 6.4.35.
Three sets of keyboard shortcuts An EngView installation now comes with three sets of keyboard shortcuts: (1) a set of 98 keyboard shortcuts programmed for working with the program, (2) a CAD-appropriate set of 35 keyboard shortcuts and (3) a standard set of 9 keyboard shortcuts familiar to users of Windows-based applications.
BACKGROUND COLOR IN exportED raster FORMAT fileS You can now set a background color to exported raster format files.
COPY/PASTe KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS The keyboard shortcuts for copying (CTRL+C) and pasting (CTRL+V) work produce different effects depending on the mode you are in: While drawing an object, pressing CTRL+C copies the value that is currently being applied to the object (the value is selected in the contextual edit bar). When you begin drawing another object and you press CTRL+V, the object you are drawing acquires the copied value. When working with drawn objects, selecting an object and then pressing CTRL+C copies the object; then, pressing CTRL+V pastes the copied object into the graphical area.
SHOW UNUSED STYLES IN STATISTICAL LENGTH REPORTS A functionality has been introduced that lets you hide the styles that are not used in the current project. This declutters the dialog box, making it easier to work with.
Shortlist of base material types in new projects When creating new projects, you can now set your own shortlist of preferred material base types and hide the types you know you will not need.
Deleting entire stacks of drawings If you have the habit of arranging drawing tabs in stacks, you can now delete entire stacks with a single click.
pinning drawings' tabs While working with projects that consist of a large number of drawings, you can now make the drawings that you most often go to easily accessible by pinning them to the leftmost part of the taskbar.
Custom UI and style name strings You can use your own text strings for the program's UI and style names. For example, if you want a specific style name or a UI label to appear with a name that is different from the default one, you can replace its default name with one of your own choosing. Each time the program starts, it will display the replaced UI or style name string. Using your own strings overrides the selected UI language. Contact EngView to request the necessary list of strings.
WIDENING THE default style SHORTCUT icons If you can now increase the widths of the style shortcut icons.
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