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News Release from: EskoArtwork | Subject: Artiscad
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 February 2004
Esko's Free CAD Plug-In For Packaging
Pre-Press
Esko-Graphics announces Artioscad Mac and PC plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator, ensuring the streamlined integration of CAD with graphic design files in the packaging prepress workflow.
Esko-Graphics announces Artioscad Mac and PC plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator, ensuring the streamlined integration of CAD with graphic design files in the packaging prepress workflow Until now, an EPS file had to be exported from Artioscad and opened in Illustrator
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 14 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The free plug-in allows users to open or place native Artioscad files into Illustrator without any file conversion.
After opening an Artioscad design, the system's structure and properties are kept and placed in a separate working layer.
Artioscad provides structural designers a tool for conceptual design, product development, and live prototypes.
It provides users with an extensive library of resizable packaging designs, or they can create their own packaging designs from scratch and the company believes it is the ideal tool for packaging and folding carton designers.
The plug-in ensures that files developed within Illustrator are as productive as possible.
A time stamp is embedded in the file so that Illustrator can automatically update its CAD layer when the original CAD file is edited.
The different CAD line styles (cuts, creases, bleed) are translated to custom colours.
All CAD line styles such as creases, annotations and die board cuts - among many others - are supported, and viewable, within Illustrator.
Along with the plug-in, a dedicated alignment tool assists the user in snapping graphical elements to specific CAD objects and lines.
Because the files generated contain folding angles and animation, the system is able to produce accurately folded and animated 3-D models in conjunction with the design application.
An additional, optional Mac plug-in can be purchased to extract varnish information and automatically create a varnish separation.
Artioscad is said to complement other packaging design tools, such as Deskpack, and Fastlane for packaging components Plato, Packedge, and Backstage.
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