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ArtiosCAD is the world’s most popular structural design software for packaging design. With dedicated tools specifically designed for packaging professionals for structural design, product development, virtual prototyping and manufacturing, ArtiosCAD increases productivity throughout your company!
ArtiosCAD is the ideal product for all corrugated, folding carton and POP, POS, FSDU display designers.

Design Productivity
Intelligent drafting tools with interactive display elements increase packaging designer productivity.

Rebuildable Designs
Smart standards save design time and reduce errors. Intelligent, resizable design library of the US, ECMA, FEFCO and display standards make design decisions for you. A powerful rebuild design feature allows designs to be parametrically rebuilt with new geometric values.

Reduce production costs
Structural design and graphic design integration with productions files eliminate costly mistakes down stream in the workflow.

2D Design
Create new and unique designs in seconds from scratch or by using the extensive library of folding carton and corrugated styles.

3D Design
Powerful 3D design tools enable quick folding of the final folded design for even complex designs with curved creases.

Manufacturing
Automated layout of rubber profiles optimizes the cutting layout using a powerful nesting tool that balances sheet usage with element grouping.

Enterprise Database
ArtiosCAD Enterprise is an online central database with user login security. It allows ArtiosCAD users to centralize all assets (CAD, PDF, Word, Excel, 3D files...). It’s a powerful way for converters to streamline the design process. Read more about ArtiosCAD Enterprise.

Rebuildable Designs
Smart standards save design time and reduce errors. Intelligent, resizable design library of the US, ECMA, FEFCO and display standards make design decisions for you. A powerful rebuild design feature allows designs to be parametrically rebuilt with new geometric values.

Material library
Making a re-board design will be different from making a display design in, for instance, corrugated material. With an extensive library of materials, ArtiosCAD allows you to make 3D previsualizations to show your clients, and even detailed 3D construction movies.

Think in 3D, design in 3D
Packaging designers often think in 3D but must draw a structural design on a 2-dimensional “drawing board”. Now designers can actually start creating packaging designs in 3D with ArtiosCAD. Users start with a product model and automatically resize a Standard design to fit the product. Dedicated tools allow users to create internal fitments and windows that follow the product’s shape.

ArtiosCAD creates a variety of 3D models of common packaging products like cans, bottles, glasses and bags. These product models support parametric design, allowing users to resize a single model to create a wide variety of shapes and sizes.

Adding components in 3D
With ArtiosCAD display designers easily add hardware components from the library to their 3D structural design for displaying the primary product. ArtiosCAD will automatically update the design to reduce design time, eliminate guesswork and allow for a more accurate and realistic 3D visualization of the display design.

Designing displays
ArtiosCAD has the tools to quickly design POP (Point of Purchase), POS (Point of Sale) and FSDU (Free Standing Display Units) displays. Whether you’re working in corrugated carton, in Re-board® or other rigid materials, ArtiosCAD makes it easy and straightforward to design POS, POP, FSDU... Start from scratch or run one of many display standards. With dedicated 3D tools, ArtiosCAD allows you to assemble the separate parts of the displays without any hassles.

Packaging CAD software
Packaging CAD software or a complete packaging CAD system differs from other 3D editors. ArtiosCAD comes with very specific packaging knowledge and tools. Dedicated packaging functionality makes it not only easier to design packaging and displays. It also makes it possible to deliver the results your customers expect in the shortest amount of time. ArtiosCAD’s level of packaging expertise is second to none. Packaging professionals work best with a complete packaging CAD system, and ArtiosCAD is the absolute standard.

Complete solutions from one company means native compatibility between ArtiosCAD and sample making or display producing with a Kongsberg cutting table.

Producing POP displays made easy:
Designing POP displays is not always easy. The ArtiosCAD Display Store makes designing alluring displays possible for everyone. Businesses that have production equipment for making POP displays but do not have the design capabilities can download templates for a wide range of POP displays. The store offers ArtiosCAD files optimized for cutting with a Kongsberg table. A mounting video is included with each design.

Features:
2D Design
- Create new and unique designs in seconds from scratch or by using the extensive library of folding carton and corrugated styles.
- Create reusable, parametric designs using simple drafting tools.
- Integrate graphic design files into the CAD design file.
- Vectorize edges in any graphic to produce an outline around elements in the image.

3D Design
- Powerful 3D design tools enable quick folding of the final folded design for even complex designs with curved creases.
- Control fold angles and mating of multiple design elements for quality control inspection of folds, tucks, flaps, inserts and fitments.
- Visualize the assembly and folding sequence of designs, create assembly instructions and assembly animation movies.
- Create 3D models of primary product such as cans, bottles, glasses and bags.
- Create exact fitting packaging around imported 3D models or 3D models created directly in ArtiosCAD.

Quickly create stunning POP displays
Drastically reduce your design time when creating the most complex POP displays with ArtiosCAD's dedicated display functionality.

ArtiosCAD lets you create and visualize your display in 3D in just a few clicks:
- easily add display hooks
- automatically fit products in the display
- work with multi-parts on a single canvas
- quickly estimate how much material is needed to produce your display components
- extract reports, like a Bill of Materials or technical data
- and much more …

The ArtiosCAD Display Store makes designing alluring displays possible for everyone. Download templates for a wide range of POS designs and create production ready displays in minutes instead of hours. The store offers ArtiosCAD files optimized for cutting with a Kongsberg table. A mounting video is included with each design.

With ArtiosCAD Enterprise, design teams at corrugated, folding carton and display converters use an online, secure database for all their assets.
- Web-accessible central database with user login security.
- Save and retrieve all assets (CAD, PDF, Word, Excel, 3D, etc.).
- Full relational database allows for easy and flexible searching.
- Easily create reports and bill of material reports on multi-part design projects

Interoperatability
- Import Collada, CATIA, ProE, STEP, SAT, IGES or SolidWorks 3D, Siemens NX or Parasolid 3D solid models from other 3D modeling programs directly into ArtiosCAD to directly create packaging based on the imported product, part or assembly.
- Export to native IGES,STEP,ACIS or XCGM 3D model format.
- Adobe Illustrator Import plug-in enables native ArtiosCAD ARD files to be imported into Illustrator maintaining the ArtiosCAD layers and information and provides dedicated tools to preserve CAD data within Adobe Illustrator.
- Adobe Illustrator Export plug-in will allow exporting graphic information directly to ArtiosCAD. This helps structural designers create CAD files that follow graphic outlines - particularly important for designers of displays and folding cartons, where the final package die cut must often follow specific graphic features.
- Import and export native PDF files to ArtiosCAD based on PDF libraries licensed from Adobe Systems.

Manufacturing
- Automatically calculate sheet layouts that have minimum production costs.
- Quickly create quality die boards and coating blankets from a sheet layout for flat and rotary dies.
- Automatically generate ejection rubber profiles for a cutting die.
- Automated layout of rubber profiles optimizes the cutting layout using a powerful nesting tool that balances sheet usage with element grouping.
- Create the complete design of individual counter plates automatically.
- Quickly design top and bottom stripping sets as well as the front waste separator.
- Automated tools to create one-piece steel counter.

Palletization
- Advanced integration between ArtiosCAD and Cape Pack palletizing software makes it possible to move from a packaging design to the ideal pallet scheme, and back again.
- Send structural design from ArtiosCAD to Cape for pallet solution.
- Send knock-down flats (KDF) from ArtiosCAD to Cape for get optimal case design and pallet load.
- Send pallet solution from Cape to ArtiosCAD for realistic 3D viewing with graphics.
- Send primary pack arrangement from Cape to ArtiosCAD to view in 3D the actual primary product arrangement in the right-sized secondary package.
- Include full palletization data and views in ArtiosCAD reports.
- Use Cape primary and secondary design solutions to automatically create right-sized designs in ArtiosCAD.