What's New in Prinect Package Designer CR 61
3D
- 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.
- 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.
- View images on structures' panels as clipped or not
- When in 3D view you choose how to view the images on structures'
panels, you can choose whether to view them in their clipped state
or not. This helps you get a realistic idea of the final product.
Additionally, for projects with layouts, you can choose to view
a particular, artwork-fitted layout part by easily browsing the
entire array of layout parts.
- To do this, right-click in the 3D view area, and then click
Select Viewed Image.
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Drafting
- 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.
- Creating compound components out of multiple single components
- A workflow case of how to create
a compound component out of multiple idientical single components.
- Two new production processes added for print-related areas
- Two new production processes
now serve the generation of bleed:
- Print Area Boundary. This process defines the so-called
shadow of glue flaps. Prinect
considers this style when defining the levels of importance
that are the basis for the resolution of bleed conflicts.
- Print-free Area Contour. This process marks zones
that are not meant to contain any artwork or print matter.
Generally these zones are hidden and contain meta information
about the packaged product.
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Library Index of Parametric Templates
- 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:
- Packaging:
23 Folding Carton; 21 Corrugated Board
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Sheet Layout: Non-Bleed Functionalities
- 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.
- A Recycle Bin-styled button now removes custom layout templates
- When you want to remove a layout template in the layout wizard's
initial
step, the icon for removing the template is now a small stylized
recycle bin.
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Sheet Layout: Bleed-Related Functionalities
- Generating bleed on both sides of panels
- Prinect can now generate bleeds on both
sides of structures' panels to respond to different artwork
and printed matter applied to the panels. Depending on the technological
requirements for the two sides, the two bleeds can be either identical
or different. Applying bleed onto the two sides can take place
right at the bleed definition or later.
- When creating or editing layouts, designers choose the side
whose bleed will be considered for the resolution of overlapping
bleeds, which then affects the final layout array.
- In this version, the dual side generation of bleeds comes with
a set of accompanying functionalities. These are listed in this
section.
- Setting the visualization of objects on the reverse side
- When working on bleeds on both sides, you most often want to
keep track of the bleed applied onto the reverse side. To do this,
you can set how the other side's objects and bleed are visualized.
This gives you greater control over how to accommodate the two
bleeds.
- In Prinect's global preferences View section, a new group of
controls in the View area lets you choose the styles
for visualizing the objects and bleed on the reverse side.
- Controls for switching between the front and rear sides and
bleeds
- In generating and editing bleed, new buttons on the contextual
bar (above the graphical area)
now let you switch between the front and rear sides and bleeds.
- View clipped images and bleeds during layout definition
- When defining layouts, you can now choose whether to view bleeds
and images in their clipped state. In the lower parts of the wizard
steps' preview areas, you can choose whether to see the applied
bleed and also the clipped state of the applied artwork. These
buttons are available in the wizard steps for:
- A new style added
- A new style — Overlapping Area Boundary — has been added to
the list of styles. It
is used for splitting panels and defining areas where layers of
material overlap.
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Design frames and print presentations
- 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
- 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
- Publishing to Business Manager
- You can now publish
to Business Manager.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Prinect 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 Prinect.
As a result, you can then easily cross-refer between the two catalogs.
- 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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