What's new in Prinect Package Designer 21.10.51

3D Library Index of Parametric Templates Drafting Diemaking Sheet layout CAM Other new functionalities

3D

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.
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.
Learn more about copying 3D drawings.
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Library Index of Parametric Templates

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 Prinect or Adobe Illustrator from its preview, without opening its Index file.
New templates
The libraries of packaging templates has been expanded by:
  • 182 templates in the Packaging Structures section: 163 for folding carton, 13 for corrugated board, and 6 for grey board.
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Drafting

Quick access to material name, type, and material thickness
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.
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 handy especially while drawing objects or to assist aligning.
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Diemaking

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 how to create bridges drawings.
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Sheet layout

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, Prinect 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, Prinect now keeps track of the leftover material. Prinect 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.
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.
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

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 Prinect 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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Other new functionalities

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 Prinect will use to indicate these symbols. This is a global setting, which means that each time you insert such a symbol, Prinect applies the set style and name.
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; Prinect will not create a 3D drawing if one does not exist. Learn more about copying 3D drawings.
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