ArtiosCAD

Structural Packaging Design

Create 2D and 3D packaging designs, resize designs to fit a product, and create internal fitments.

Produce Powerful Structural Packaging Designs

With ArtiosCAD software packaging professionals can deliver structural design, product development, virtual protoyping, and manufacturing for all corrugated, folding carton and POP, POS, FSDU displays.

Increase productivity

With intelligent drafting tools that create parametrically accurate designs.

Reduce costs

And eliminate mistakes with tools that check folds and creases for physical limitations of the designs.

Save time

Using features that allow designs to be rebuilt with new geometric values.

Essentials
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2D design tools

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Run a standard

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Add graphics

Advanced
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Essentials

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3D folding

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3D animation

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3D animation

Prime
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Essentials

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Advanced

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3D design

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3D import & export

ArtiosCAD Essentials

2D Design Features
  • Geometry is created quickly using a wide range of powerful tools.
  • Multiple tools for copying, moving, trimming, splitting, adjusting and stretching geometry.
  • Construction lines are available for planning complex work or sketching shapes.
  • Expressions can be built using the on-screen keypad. This also supports copying distances and angles.
  • Bridges are automatically created when lines and arcs are being constructed using user-defined bridging formula.
  • Multiple selection tools quickly select elements either using the cursor or by geometry attributes. The Change tool operates on all selected elements.
  • Annotate and dimension designs including a detail function to enlarge and correctly dimension small areas.
  • Quickly define printed and varnish areas in a few keystrokes using specialized tools.
  • Import from DDES, CFF2, DXF, HPGL formats.
  • Import PDF files as vectors to map geometry data to ARD line types.
  • Tracks corrugation/grain direction and inside/outside of designs to prevent errors in communication.
  • Copy and Paste with the Windows clipboard copies geometry between designs as well as copying to other applications.
  • Output to a plotter, report, sample table or any of the ArtiosCAD output formats (DDES, CFF2, DXF, HP-GL or EPS).
  • Export designs to PDF, including the structure as well as any PDF files imported as graphics.
  • Samples produced by ArtiosCAD have numerous configuration options including fine tuning the processing of special rules such as perf or cut/crease and specifying how tight corners of the design are to be cut to avoid tearing. There is especially strong software integration available when driving Kongsberg tables.
  • Unique CloseUp windows allow any area to be enlarged without changing the main view and can be moved around to give you an on-screen magnifying glass.
Rebuildable Design Features
  • Build new designs from any style in the style catalog.
  • Shows documentation diagrams on screen when entering values.
  • Validate the data entered to verify it meets the guidelines expected by the creator of the standard. This prevents styles being accidentally used for inappropriate jobs.
  • Rebuild designs created from the style catalog or custom styles with different sizes, board or other parameters.
  • New designs created will automatically have the fold angles pre-defined if the style being used was previously folded.
  • Display Standards: New POP display standards have been added to the style catalog. Design POP displays in minutes with parametric design templates.
Graphic Features
  • Artwork from any graphics system can be imported into ArtiosCAD. Graphic formats supported are PDF, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP and DIB.
  • The artwork can be accurately registered on the structure with a single click.
  • Open normalized PDF with embedded link to ARD, BAG or Collada: graphics automatically registers to the structure.
  • Correctly registered cutouts and windows can be created by tracing the artwork with the drafting tools.
  • Line-art can be created directly in ArtiosCAD using tools for color fills and strokes.
  • Graphics can be used to automatically carry artwork into 3D, print cards, layouts, etc
Database Access Features
  • Add an unlimited number of user-defined fields to be collected with all designs and tracked in the database.
  • User-defined fields are units-aware – i.e. they correctly convert between inch and metric depending on the type of data.
  • Manually enter data or automatically calculate based on the geometry of the design.
  • DataLink allows user-defined fields to be automatically set each time a design is saved. This allows any information that can be calculated from the geometry to be tracked and searched in the database.
  • The designer, salesperson and owner for designs will also be tracked in the database.
  • Search for designs in the database using any user-defined fields.
  • Information Filter defines outputs for your customers and suppliers to insure they always are sent designs in the file format needed and to control the amount of information received.
  • Directly creates e-mail messages from ArtiosCAD with attached designs.
Reporting Features
  • Construct report templates that can be run by any user with Connect.
  • The view of the designs on the report can be precisely controlled.
  • Any information available to ArtiosCAD can be calculated and displayed on the report.
  • Multiple designs, 3D images and manufacturing layouts can be combined on a report.
  • Logos and other fixed graphics elements can be added to the report.
  • Output reports directly to PDF file format for specification sheets, bill of materials or other business documents.

ArtiosCAD Advanced (Adds)

3D Folding Features
  • Single click access to 3D from 2D design.
  • Designs can be quickly folded in a few clicks.
  • Powerful tools calculate the angles necessary to align panels with slots and other common packaging constructions.
  • Fold angles for designs are remembered allowing rapid switching between flat and folded views.
  • Measure distances in the folded view to check allowances and offsets.
  • Combines multiple designs to create complex assemblies.
  • Creates folded designs directly from DDES or CFF2 format files.
  • Import Collada, VRML and .BAG 3D models.
  • Export Collada and VRML single designs or multi-component designs.
  • Export 3D images to a PDF document, including interactive 3D PDF, to create detailed and accurate renderings of 3D models.

Example of a curved crease design folded in 3D

Example of using the Mate Tool to assemble a display

3D Animation Features
  • Animation steps can be recorded as the design is folded or assembled, creating a 3D view with animations quickly.
  • Fold angles and animations for designs are remembered allowing rapid switching between flat and folded views.
  • Combine multiple designs to create complex animated assemblies.
  • Export 3D files as AVI and QuickTime movies – requires ArtiosCAD V7.4 or higher
  • Export 3D files as VRML models that can be viewed using any VRML browser plugin. VRML models can even be viewed over the Web.
  • Animated VRML models can include a toolbar to play the entire animation, step forward or backward through an animation or display the model with transparency.
  • Export individual frames as PDF PowerPoint or Word documents.
  • Export Animation frames for assembly drawings in PDF format.
  • Using the clipboard, Animation steps can be used to create detailed assembly drawings.

ArtiosCAD Prime (Adds)

3D Design Features
  • Create realistic product models of cans, bottles, containers and bags.
  • Combine these product models with folding cartons and corrugated boxes to create presentations of the product and its packaging.
  • Add graphics such as labels to the models created with to produce realistic product representations.
  • Create cross sections and intersections based on one or more 3D objects
  • Run a standard parametric design to one or more 3D objects
  • Animate the models to create VRML models can include a toolbar to play an entire animation, step forward or backward through an animation or display the model with transparency.
  • Export 3D images to a PDF document, including interactive 3D PDF, to create detailed and accurate renderings of 3D models.

Use the 3D model to design packaging and inserts
2D design files are automatically generated from the 3D

3D Importing Features
  • Import CATIA V4, CATIA V5, IGES, STEP, SAT or ProEngineer format 3D solid files directly into ArtiosCAD 3D.

​ ArtiosCAD Resizable Design Tools (included in all levels)

Basic Features
  • Create fully parametric designs.
  • Add variables to designs to control parametric geometry that can be rebuilt with different sizes.
  • Tools to convert fixed designs to variable geometry.
  • Rebuild Playback examines and adjusts the construction of parametric designs.
  • Access a library of general-purpose geometry tools to quickly add components to designs.
  • Specify lengths and angles based on existing lines using the on-screen keypad to further control how geometry changes when designs are rebuilt.
  • Automatically identify units allowing styles to work in inch or metric values with no additional work.
  • Create a documentation diagram for the design showing how the variables were used.
  • Add parametric designs to the Style Catalog to make them available to all users.
Advanced Features
  • Tools for creating advanced self-documenting standards.
  • Create variables with default expressions based on other variables.
  • Create check conditions to enable user entry validation.
  • Group variables in multiple menus with individual documentation diagrams to simplify use and control relationships between the variables.
  • Style choice variables allow users to pick from a list of options.
  • Documentation diagrams for variables can vary based on prior style selections.
  • Graphical formula editor simplifies complex, conditional and constrained expressions.
  • Functions in the formula editor allow standards to run with meaningful values in either inch or metric units.
  • Library functions allow central management of frequently used expressions.
  • Variables can be hidden to prevent changes by users.

​ ArtiosCAD Enterprise (Adds)

  • An online central database for all your packaging assets, with user login security
  • Save and retrieve all packaging assets (CAD, PDF, Word, Excel, 3D files...)
  • Secure, managed relational database allows for easy and flexible searching
  • Local database caching and auto-synchronization for uninterrupted offline operation
  • Real time, dashboard reporting and exporting to excel for custom reports
Optimize your CAD design process, eliminate waste

ArtiosCAD Enterprise helps design teams in corrugated, folding carton and display converters to optimize the design process and avoid:

  • Searching multiple locations (emails, network folders, online transfers and dropbox folders...) for different types of assets, just to get started on a project
  • Looking for the most recent version of the approved file
  • Handoffs between the structural design and graphics departments and outside suppliers
  • Creating management reports for designs and samples completed per customer, account manager, designer

Hear from our customers

"ArtiosCAD links to CAPE software to determine palletization configurations very quickly. We removed 15-20% of the cost of a project by the reduction of fiber. There were also pallet-handling efficiencies of 10-15%. Overall savings were about 30%."

Rod Goudreau, VP business development, Abbott-Action

"Our previous process made it difficult to get a holistic view of where the job was and what needed to happen next. There was no way to track changes or monitor revisions."

Maïa Barbier, WebCenter Project Manager for the Industrial Global Business Unit, Ansell

"Goodman Fielder needed to more efficiently manage the increasing number of packaging designs, allowing us to streamline any changes or updates to the artwork in an efficient manner via standard web-browsers, both in the office and on mobile devices."

Lorna Thomson, Senior Brand Manager, Goodman Fielder

"Packaging design has become an essential part of product marketing. It has to meet very high standards. After all, it isn’t only the brand name that persuades customers to buy, but also appealing, well-designed packaging."

Titus Helmke, Head of Brand Management International, Kärcher

"With Esko, I always know there will be full integration with other software. It is an example of why Esko is a trusted partner for Loacker. They really understand my job from my perspective, and are able to bring the solutions I need."

Andrea Canale, Graphic Arts Director, Loacker

"We definitely save time and it has brought a significant increase in our productivity. Something that would have taken two, three or four hours of Photoshop® work, only takes about 10 minutes."

Matt Maghan – Global Apparel + EQ Packaging Designer, Nike