What's new in ParametrIQ.
Everything added to ParametrIQ CAD, the Pack Designer, the Machine Emulator, the free apps and this website, newest first.
The updates
Braille for medicine packs
The Braille Tool places braille at Marburg Medium (EN ISO 17351) or ADA sizes, translated from the text or from variables, and Check Dieline warns of braille across a fold, on the glue or over a window.
Spec sheets for customers
One page to approve: the dieline and its sizes, a picture of it folded, the board, the box's strength and pallet pattern, the revisions and a box to sign.
Varnish-free glue areas
The dieline PDF can carry a varnish-free plate over the glue: glue drawn, and side-seam glue flaps found in the dieline by themselves.
Rotary dies
Make Die draws the layout for a rotary die, shortened around the cylinder by the factor its diameter, board and rule height give.
Dieline Check on the website
Upload a dieline (a ParametrIQ drawing, DXF, CF2, DDES3, PDF, SVG, EPS, Illustrator or HP-GL) and ParametrIQ CAD's own check lists what would stop it cutting and folding, problems first. Nothing to install.
Four more free apps
Box Strength works out how high a corrugated box stacks safely, every board compared. True-Shape Nesting lays parts of any shape out on hides, remnants and sheets, clear of their flaws. The Seam Planner lays carpet with the fewest seams or the least waste. Sign Quote prices cut vinyl from its artwork.
New from Product
Start from what you're packing - six bottles of wine, twelve cans - and get one finished drawing: the case, the fitment that holds the products apart and any divider pad, sized, costed and ranked, folded in 3D with a product in every cell. The Pack Designer's Pack These… hands its pack straight to it.
Accessories and fitments
Carry handles, euro hang tabs, window film, ribbon pulls, magnets, drawstrings, D-rings, stand-offs and more: parametric parts that cut what they need, show in 3D and are costed from one shared price list. Check Dieline finds their holes too close to a fold, the edge or each other.
Vector and Photoshop artwork
The Pack Designer places Illustrator, PDF, EPS and SVG artwork, kept sharp at any size, and sends artwork to Photoshop and back as a layered document, a shrink sleeve's distortion staying in the Pack Designer. ParametrIQ CAD reads and writes Photoshop documents too, each layer of the drawing a layer of its own.
Reports in your language
The reports that come with ParametrIQ CAD are in the language the app is in, English, Spanish or Simplified Chinese: their names and options, and everything they write, with numbers written your way.
Pallet and Case Planner, and the Spooler
Two more free apps: pack units into cases and cases onto a pallet with every way compared, and queue jobs for your machines, each sent made into its machine's profile or format.
Write to us from the website
The contact page sends your message straight to our sales team, and our reply comes back to you. Every desktop program shows its terms of use the first time it starts.
Seven free apps
The Viewer, Box Maker, Sheet Yield Calculator, Die Estimator, Cut List Optimiser, Batch Converter and Mat and Frame Calculator: small programs on ParametrIQ CAD's own engine, each a separate download, free with an account.
ParametrIQ Pack Designer
Cans, bottles, jars, tubs, tubes, cartons, pouches, crisp packets and sachets in 3D from their sizes, in real materials with your artwork, and shrink sleeves printed so they shrink into the artwork you drew. Free with an account.
ParametrIQ Machine Emulator
Plays G-code, HP-GL/2, GP-GL, DXF, CF2, DDES, LightBurn and DSTV jobs as the machine would run them, with S-curve motion, feed hold and machine-time estimates, before anything is cut. ParametrIQ CAD's machine profiles send jobs to it. Free with an account.
Easier to start, easier to find
A start page, Simple mode, a command palette (Ctrl+K) that finds any command, tool, setting or help page, help beside what you're working on, Make It, units typed into number boxes, plain error messages with fixes, and guided tours through your first design.
More in 3D, and reviews
Put the product in the pack and check it fits, change sizes live on the 3D page, unfold STEP, STL and other 3D models into flat patterns, set up scenes, make 3D proofs, and share drawings for review with comments and a verdict.
Email sent for you
Send by Email can send drawings through ParametrIQ itself, with replies coming to your account's address: nothing to set up and no password to give.
Everything ParametrIQ makes
One engine runs them all: what one of them draws, checks, nests or costs is what the others would.
ParametrIQ CAD
The desktop CAD program. Draw with the mouse using snap modes that tie each new point to the ones already there, or type commands. Dimension it, nest it on a sheet, make its die, fold it up in 3D, and export it to DXF, CF2, DDES3, G-code, HP-GL, LightBurn, DSTV NC, IFC, STEP, AAMA/ASTM DXF, a print-ready dieline PDF, Illustrator or SVG, straight to a machine with its profile, or as a 3D proof that opens in a web browser.
PiQ Lang
The language every ParametrIQ drawing is saved in. It reads like the design itself: P5=UP(P4,FLAP) is always FLAP above P4. Loops, conditions, functions and JavaScript are there when a design needs them.
PiQ SaaS
The same parametric engine as a web service. Your quoting, ordering or production system sends a design and its sizes over HTTPS and gets the finished drawing back, with no one at a CAD station.
ParametrIQ Pack Designer
ParametrIQ Pack Designer makes cans, bottles, pouches, crisp packets and more in 3D from their sizes, with your artwork, for your cartons and shelves. Free with an account.
ParametrIQ Machine Emulator
ParametrIQ Machine Emulator plays the files ParametrIQ CAD writes as the machine would run them, so you see the cutting order and the machine time before anything is cut. It's free with a ParametrIQ account.
Dieline Check
Upload a dieline and ParametrIQ CAD's own check finds what would stop it cutting and folding: open cut lines, folds that can't fold, stray pieces and lines of no length.
The free apps
Free apps on ParametrIQ CAD's own engine: view any drawing, make a box, work out sheet yields, dies, cut lists, frames, pallet loads and how high a box stacks, nest parts on hides clear of their flaws, plan carpet seams, quote cut vinyl, convert files in batches, and queue jobs for your machines.