What's New in Prinect Package Designer 21.10
Drafting
- Creating predefined texts to insert into drawings
- You can create and save
texts that you want to use frequently in drawings. When you
need a text, you select it in a list, and then drag it into where
in the drawing you need it.
- Export of braille matrices (PDF, EPS, AI)
- When exporting braille inscriptions, you can now export also
the braille matrix (an .evb file) along with the braille text.
The matrix is exported in a separate layer or style and in the
automatically generated Braille Matrix style. This functionality
is available for the .eps, .pdf and .ai file
formats.
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3D
- Customizing the field of view for 3D models
- You can set the angle that defines the viewing
field in which you look at the 3D model. The effect changes
the model's scene perspective giving you the viewing environment
you are most comfortable with.
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Integration with Adobe®
Illustrator®
- Directly changing the color in color-carrying layers in Illustrator
- You no longer need to switch to Prinect change the color of
objects processed with the finishing processes Partial Foil Stamping
and Monochrome Print. You can now change
the color directly in Illustrator.
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Diemaking
- Using Repeat Changes to manually place bridges to identically
rotated layout parts
- When placing bridges manually, you can use the Repeat Changes
functionality to distinguish between rotated and nonrotated parts.
In the layout drawing, you set a default mode for how the Repeat
Changes functionality will apply manually placed bridges to rotated
parts. Then, in the bridges drawing, Repeat Changes populates
the bridges you place to
all identically rotated parts.
- Use a single click to apply nicks to all parts in bridges drawings
regardless of their rotation
- When placing nicks in bridges drawings containing rotated and
nonrotated parts, you can now apply
the single-click Repeat Changes functionality to all the parts,
regardless of whether or not they are rotated.
- Export dieboard data in the SVG file format
- You can now export data for a defined dieboard in the SVG
file format.
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CAM
- Setting object processing priority in layout-generated CAM
files
- When you are working with CAM files generated from layout drawings,
you can choose how you want tools to process
their associated objects: (1) before or (2) after all other
objects, or (3) as they move from one part to the next. NOTE:
You can use this functionality only when you have chosen to process
the individual layout parts one by one. with creating another
CAM drawing.
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Cost Estimator
- Digit grouping symbols in displayed formula results
- When displaying formula results, Prinect now uses your system's
digit
grouping format. Adding a t to the formula's
formatting tells Prinect to use the digit grouping symbol
set in your system.
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Design frames and print presentations
- Using digit grouping symbols in displaying formula results
- When displaying formula results, Prinect now uses your system's
digit
grouping format. Adding the letter t to the formula's
formatting tells Prinect to use the digit grouping symbol
set in your system.
- Formulas extracting dieboard-related data
- New formulas let you extract new information
about dieboards. These formulas give you:
- The board's dimensions as measured along and against the flute
direction.
- The rule-to-rule width and height, taking into account the
use of objects outside the Structural layer.
- The rule-to-rule width and height as measured along and against
the flute direction and taking into account (1) the use of stripping
rules and (2) objects outside the Structural layer.
- The rule-to-rule distances as measured along and against the
flute direction and taking into account (1) the use of stripping
rules and (2) objects outside the Structural layer.
- Flute direction-aware formulas for extracting sheet size
- New formulas let you
extract the sheet size, taking into account the flute direction.
- Real-size export of print drawings as PDF
- When exporting print drawings as PDFs, you can export
the drawings in their actual size. When exported, drawings
retain their original dimensions and are not scaled to fit the
predefined size of the media.
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Other new functionalities
- Defining custom colors
- You can define your own colors
to add to the list of available colors and use them wherever
you need to apply a color. An example of this is for backgrounds
of 3D scenes, when you export 3D models in graphical
file formats.
- Projects originating from existing .evr files are named after
the underlying design
- Projects that originate from existing resizable designs (.evr
files) are automatically named after the underlying design and
stay so until you rename them explicitly. This includes projects
created (1) by double-clicking an existing .evr file or (2) by
double-clicking the .evr icon in the Library of Standards. Projects
created (3) by using the project-making wizard also use the name
of the selected resizable design unless you specify a name
for them in the File name field.
- Identical MAIN and SUB names in exports in the CFF file format
- You can now execute exports
in the CFF file format using identical
names for the MAIN and the SUB.
- DD3 line types matching EngView
styles are associated even if style names mismatch
- When DD3 files are being imported, EngView
inspects the properties of the DD3 file objects' line types and
if it finds styles that match those properties, associates
the incoming tine types to those styles under their names.
- Default font for text in imported files
- You can set
the default font in which you want EngView to display the
text in imported files
- Setting a work language for the Library of Standards
- When you are browsing the Library of Standards, you can now
set the language in which
you want to see the names of the components. You can choose
between the language of the user interface that you use to work
with EngView or a translated version of the Library.
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