Labels
Label dies laid out to the cylinder's repeat, with the matrix, slits and eye marks the press needs.
Label die-cutting and roll labels: drawing a label die's layout to its cylinder's repeat, kiss-cut through the face material, with the matrix, backing slits, perforations and eye marks a label press needs.
What you can design
4 parametric designs come in the library's Labels folder (File › Run Parametric…): open one, type your sizes and the drawing follows. Open any of them in the viewer to try it.
The trade's tools
For a drawing whose industry is Labels, the toolbar and Edit › Tool offer these tools beside the general drawing, editing and dimensioning tools. Each is parametric: change a size, or move a point it was drawn on, and what it made follows.
Bridge
Bridges in a die's rules: where clicked, spread along a rule, or cleared.
On the toolbar's Bridge or Tab button
Edge Notch
A V or U notch cut into an edge.
On the toolbar's Notch button
Tear Strip
Two perforations side by side between two points, a strip apart.
Contour Cut
A cut round a printed design, a distance out, for print-and-cut.
Label layout
Labels across the web and round the die cylinder's repeat.
Liner (backing) slit
A backing slit through the liner: straight, zigzag or wave.
Exports
File › Export › Export… lists these formats first for a Labels drawing:
And the formats every trade uses:
Machine profiles
File › Send Using Machine Profile sends the drawing to a machine in one click, with the format, options, layer names and pens it needs. These come with the app:
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Emulator: Graphtec cutter (GP-GL)
GP-GL (Graphtec)
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Emulator: laser (LightBurn)
LightBurn Projects
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Emulator: laser (SVG)
SVG for Glowforge and xTool
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Emulator: plotter / cutter (HP-GL)
HP-GL
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Emulator: plotter / cutter (HP-GL/2)
HP-GL
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Emulator: sample-maker (CF2)
CF2
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Emulator: sample-maker (DDES3)
DDES3
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Graphtec cutter (GP-GL)
GP-GL (Graphtec)
Graphtec CE / FC / CE LITE cutting plotters
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Kongsberg table (CF2)
CF2
Esko Kongsberg X / C / XN / XP (i-cut Production Console, iPC)
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Kongsberg table (DXF)
DXF and DWG
Esko Kongsberg (i-cut Production Console, iPC)
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Print and cut (PDF, CutContour)
Dieline PDF (Print-Ready)
Print-and-cut RIPs: Roland VersaWorks, Onyx, Caldera, SAi Flexi
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Printer's dieline (PDF)
Dieline PDF (Print-Ready)
Printers, trade shops and packaging designers (Acrobat, Illustrator, prepress RIPs)
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Rule bender (CF2)
CF2
Automatic rule benders: Lasercomb, Kongsberg/Esko, Serviform, Data Technology, Prima, Suzhou SLD …
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Rule bender (DDES3)
DDES3
Rule benders and die-making systems that read DDES3
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Sample table (HP-GL, a pen a tool)
HP-GL
Aristo, Elitron, Valiani, Data Technology and other tables that read HP-GL
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Vinyl cutter (HP-GL)
HP-GL
Roll and flatbed cutters that read HP-GL: Roland CAMM-1 (CAMM-GL III, HP-GL mode), Summa (HP-GL/DM-PL), Mimaki, GCC
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Vinyl cutter with camera registration (HP-GL)
HP-GL
Roll cutters with a camera or an optical sensor that a registration extension can drive (here the simulated camera, to try it out)
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Zünd Cut Center (DXF)
DXF and DWG
Zünd G3 / S3 / D3 with Zünd Cut Center
Read more
The help's page for the trade describes each tool, design, report and export in full.
Other trades
Get ParametrIQ CAD
Included in every plan. Install it, activate it, and start with File › New or File › Run Parametric…