What's New in Prinect Package Designer 21.10

Drafting 3D Integration with Adobe® Illustrator® Diemaking CAM Cost Estimator Design frames and print presentations Other new functionalities

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:
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 Prinect styles are associated even if style names mismatch
When DD3 files are being imported, Prinect 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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