Packaging
Folding cartons, corrugated cases, rigid boxes and displays, drawn as dielines: cuts, creases and perforations, and the die made from them. A drawing whose industry is Packaging offers these tools in the toolbar and in Edit › Tool.
Tools
| Tool | Does | |
|---|---|---|
| Glue Flap | A glue flap on an edge, its ends cut in at an angle | |
| Tuck Flap | A tuck flap on a lid's edge: shoulders, rounded corners, lock slits | |
| Dust Flap | A dust flap on an edge, its sides leaning in | |
| Window with Patch | A window and the outline of its film patch | |
| Lock Tab and Slot | A locking tab on a flap's edge and the slot it locks into on the panel | |
| Crease Offset | A crease moved by a number of board thicknesses (T), for fold allowances | |
| Curved Bend | A panel bent round along its length (a curved display panel, a tube, a curved lid), scored or smooth, folded as a curve in 3D | |
| Bridge | Bridges (nicks) in a rule: where you click, spread along it, or cleared | |
| Edge Notch | A V or U notch into an edge | |
| Tear Strip | Two perforation lines side by side along a path, a strip apart |
The production tools for every industry, Registration Mark and Drill Hole, are offered too.
Cuts go on the Cut layer, folds on the Crease layer, tear lines on the Perforation layer. The flap tools work on a straight edge you click, which becomes the flap's fold: draw a panel's edges with the Line Segment or Panel tool, then add its glue, tuck and dust flaps. A window's film patch goes on the Window film layer, for the window-patching machine; the Parts library's Features folder has thumb notches, hang holes and slit locks to drop on. Production › Check Dieline finds what would stop the die being made, Production › Make Die lays out the die board with its bridges and nicks (see Make Die), and Production › Bleed and Safe Zone draws the printer's guides (see Bleed and Safe Zone).
The Lock Tab and Slot tool adds a locking tab on a flap's edge and cuts its slot in the panel it locks into, and the Crease Offset tool moves a crease by a number of board thicknesses for the allowance at a fold: both are sized on the board's thickness T, so they follow the material chosen. The Curved Bend tool bends a panel round between two of its lines, with evenly spaced score lines or none, and the 3D page folds it as a curve.
For a window shaped like the artwork, intersect the panel with the artwork's shape using the general Boolean Tool: the window follows both.
Sending it out
| Who for | What | How |
|---|---|---|
| Printers and designers | The print-ready dieline: cut and crease on spot colours, overprinting, bleed and safe-area guides, trim and bleed boxes | File › Export › Export…, Dieline PDF |
| Print-and-cut | The same with the cut on the spot colour CutContour | The Print and cut (PDF, CutContour) machine profile |
| Die makers | The die drawing | CF2 or DDES3; Production › Make Die for the die board (Make Die) |
| Rule benders | The rules, with a bending report to check them first | Rule benders |
| Sample tables | Samples cut and creased on a Zünd, Kongsberg or an HP-GL table | The Zünd Cut Center, Kongsberg table and Sample table (HP-GL) machine profiles |
File › Reports… has the Board cost and wastage quote (the board the nests take with spoilage and make-ready, its wastage and cost, the die, make-ready and running, at each quantity) and Rule bending (each rule's length, bends and bridges for the bender), with Rule lengths and cost and Nests and wastage: see Reports.
Designs in the library
File › Run Parametric… has a Packaging folder (see Run Parametric); a drawing made from one of its designs is for this industry:
| Design | What it is |
|---|---|
| Archive box with lid flap | A file storage box: four panels and a glue flap, slotted bottom flaps and a hinged lid flap |
| Bakery box with tuck lid | A cake box: a tray with glued corner flaps and a lid that tucks in at the front |
| Bin box with hand hole | An open-top picking or storage bin with a hand hole in the front |
| Bottle carrier with handle | A carrier for 4 or 6 bottles in two rows, a crash-lock bottom and a handle |
| Bottle shipper partitions | A slotted divider set: strips slotted half way to cross each other |
| Carry carton with centre handle | A carton with a crash-lock bottom and a handle in the middle of its top |
| Cereal carton with tear strip | A seal end carton opened by a tear strip |
| Corner window carton | A reverse tuck end carton with a die-cut window in the front or round a corner |
| Counter display tray with header | A display tray with a low front, sloping sides and a header card |
| Crash-lock bottom box | A box with an automatic bottom and slotted top flaps |
| Crash-lock bottom carton | A carton with an automatic bottom and a tuck top |
| Dispenser carton with tear-off front | A reverse tuck end carton whose front tears off to dispense |
| Display tray with front window | A shelf-ready tray with glued corners and a window in its front wall |
| ECMA Reverse tuck end carton | The reverse tuck end carton (ECMA A20.20) |
| ECMA Seal end carton | A carton whose ends are closed by glued flaps |
| ECMA Straight tuck end carton | A straight tuck end carton: both tucks on the same side |
| FEFCO 0200 Half slotted container | A regular slotted container with no top flaps |
| FEFCO 0201 Regular slotted container | The regular slotted container (RSC), the everyday shipping case |
| FEFCO 0202 Overlap slotted container | A slotted container whose outer flaps overlap |
| FEFCO 0203 Full overlap slotted container | A slotted container whose outer flaps are the box's full width |
| FEFCO 0204 Centre special slotted container | A slotted container whose inner flaps meet in the middle too |
| FEFCO 0427 Mailer | A one-piece mailer, no glue: rolled-in walls and a tucking lid |
| Five-panel folder | A book wrap for long flat products |
| Gable-top carry carton | A carton with a crash-lock bottom and a pitched top with a handle |
| Gift box with hinged lid | A tray with glued corner flaps and a lid hinged on the back |
| Gusset corner tray | A one-piece tray with web corners, no glue |
| Half slotted box with lid | A half slotted base and a telescope lid |
| Hanging tuck end carton | A tuck end carton with a hang tab above the top |
| Hexagonal tuck end carton | A six-sided tuck end carton |
| Insert pad with fold-up edges | A pad, shelf or divider with edges folded up |
| Matchbox drawer and sleeve | A drawer and the sleeve it slides into |
| Pillow box | A box whose curved ends press in to close |
| Pizza box | A one-piece corrugated pizza box with rolled walls and a hinged lid |
| Pyramid carton | A base and four triangular sides that meet at the apex |
| Retail sleeve with hang tab | A sleeve open at both ends, with a hang tab |
| Roll-end tuck-front mailer | A one-piece e-commerce mailer, no glue or tape |
| Self-locking tray | A tray set up by hand, its ears locking the walls |
| Sleeve | A wrap open at both ends, to slide over a tray or a product |
| Snap-lock bottom box | A box with a 1-2-3 bottom closed by hand |
| Snap-lock bottom carton | A carton with a 1-2-3 bottom and a tuck top |
| Telescope base and lid | A base and a lid, each a tray with corner flaps |
| Tray with glued corners | A four-corner tray |
| Triangular prism carton | A three-sided bar carton |
| Wallet folder with tuck flap | A wallet for a CD, cards or leaflets, closed by a tuck flap |
| Wrap-around case | A one-piece case folded round the product on the packing line |
Machine profiles
Make It (File › Export › Make It, Ctrl+Shift+M, or the Make It button at the top of the window) writes the printer's dieline PDF (Printer's dieline (PDF)) and the CF2 for the die maker (Rule bender (CF2)) in one click, beside the drawing, after checking the design: see Make It.
File › Export › Export… lists this trade's formats first. File › Send Using Machine Profile sends the drawing to a machine in one click, with the format, options, layer names and pens it needs; those that come with the app for this trade: Zünd Cut Center (DXF), Kongsberg table (CF2), Kongsberg table (DXF), Sample table (HP-GL, a pen a tool), Rule bender (CF2), Rule bender (DDES3), Printer's dieline (PDF), Print and cut (PDF, CutContour). See Export by Industry and Machine Profiles.
See also: Industries and Tool Sets, Tools.