Carton packaging design- innovation drives by software

According to the News of the World Packaging Organization, the global packaging industry turnover has more than $ 500 billion, ranked in the list of the top ten industries, the packaging industry is full of prospects for the development of the industry. Packaging design, however, is a tedious process. Take the most popular carton packaging design as a sample, the workload is heavy. With the conventional CAD software design tools, and a skilled staff can draw 10 to 20 carton packaging structure one day. For design companies, the introduction of a carton packaging design software with graphics technology, database technology and 3D animation technology can undoubtedly reduce a lot of manpower and material resources. The design company has growing requirements for carton box template structure drawing, 3D proofing to improve the packaging design process, shorten the design and production cycle, reduce the cost of waste proofing, the entire packaging prepress industry digitized, urgently need a powerful, easy-to-use carton box template design software.

Packmage CAD - a carton box template design software released in 2009. And the carton box structure design based on a box template library. This software could reduces the flexibility in the carton box structure design, the designer mainly depend on the box template library, which requires Packmage CAD to have a huge "library" for the different needs of users. It has a rich box template structure design, packing box 3D animation shows, CAD drawing tools and other functions. The library has more than 440 carton box templates, which are widely used in food, clothing, and other industries, especially tobacco and alcohol. Besides, the user can also design their own carton box template via the drawing tool, so the box type the number is continually expanding. The box template management including: parameter design, texture, 3D display, and data storage.

Parametric design: Packmage CAD provides standardized carton box structure design program, several key parameters entered by the user to get the carton box structure design done. The main parameter decides the box template structure, the size of the various parts of the main factors (such as the length and breadth, the thickness, the depth etc..). Owing to the complexity of the environment, taking into account the design results to be converted to the format supported by a variety of design software, the files can be saved as a WMF and SCR format, It also can be saved as BMP, JPG, GIF, PDF, DXF format. It can also be on the PC platform publishing software, graphics software, CAD software (such as FreeHand, Illustrator, AutoCAD, CorelDraw, etc.) combined to complete pre-press work.

Texture and 3D display: The texture process is to match the carton box graphic design together with structure design, in this part multiple images can paste into the different faces of the carton box. After texture the carton box 3D display became real, the box 3D effect will be very obvious, users can also check their box template design in 3D animation process, the 3D molding process could also recording into a video. This will be able to significantly improve the efficiency of communication with customers and reduce costs directly to customers via the Internet to view the 3D blank sample, color sample and the molding process of animation reached a high degree with customers instead of repeatedly proofing to waste the cost of funds and time.

Although Packmage CAD has a rich box template library, it could not meet all the requirements of the users. Packmage CAD released a carton box drawing tool, with it users could draw the carton box template according to their requirements, they can also import the carton box template design file into Packmage CAD and modify their design via this tool, then users could define the relationship and folding angles between the faces of the carton box to display on the 3D module, this tool has greatly improved the carton box design and facilitated different carton box design requirements.

There are also other carton box design software available, they subvert the traditional packaging structure design with a digitized form, and in the computer simulation of the design of the packaging structure and 3D folding effect. In short, the carton packaging design innovation will continually drives by the advanced software technology.