Video Tutorial: Editing design structure in Package Designer

Visual: Editing design structure

To watch the video, click the icon. Time: 3:53 min.

 

 

PROCEDURAL STEPS
  1. In Adobe Illustrator, open the file EVF11908 Tapered Top Lock – Snap Lock.evr.

NOTE: In your installation, the file is located in: […] \EngViewWork7\Standards Library\mm\Standards\Folding Carton\EngView\EVF1 Glued Boxes\EVF11 Rectangular\EVF119 Misc.

IMPORTANT: If you want to see the dimensions in the design, in the Layers panel, click the eye icon that enables the visualization of the dimension lines. Note that for the dimension lines to appear in Illustrator, you must ensure that in EngView the display of the dimensions is enabled. To do so, in the graphical area, right-click, and then check Show Dimensions.

  1. To load the EngView panels, on the Menu toolbar, load the EngView workspace.

  1. To begin changing the structure of the design, in the EngView Parameters panel, open the Globals group, and then open the Main subgroup.
  2. Change the expressions of the following parameters as follows:

A = 145

B = 157

H = 115

  1. Open the EVF11908 group, and then, in the Holes subgroup, change the expression of the HL parameter to 80.
  2. To recalculate the design according to the parameter expression changes, in the EngView Parameters panel, click Recalculate Design .
  3. To make structural changes in the design, in any EngView panel, click the context menu icon in the upper right corner , and then click Edit in Package Designer. This opens EngView and the file.

NOTE: Pay attention that in the file caption the name of the file is preceded by the letters AI: This means that the file comes from Illustrator and that any changes to it are automatically reflected in the file as it is opened in Illustrator.

  1. In Package Designer, on the Objects tab, click Fillet .

A contextual edit bar appears above the graphical area.

  1. In the edit bar, in Radius type 20, and then press ENTER.
  2. In the inner hole, draw fillets to the two upper corners.

The fillets are drawn.

  1. To edit the webbed flaps, on the Transformations tab, click Trim , and then proceed by consecutively clicking the webbed flaps.

TIP: As components, the webbed flaps are groups of objects. To select individual objects within these components without selecting the entire components, holding down CTRL + SHIFT use the mouse to select the objects that you want.

IMPORTANT: Since we removed objects from the webbed flaps, we now need to apply the Cutting style to the resultant outer objects, which until now were in the Creasing style. After the removal of an object from the webbed flap, previously inner objects have become outer objects. These objects now need to be in the Cutting style, so that the contour that they form can be cut on the machine.

The two outer objects that are still in the Creasing style need to be made in the Cutting style, so that the contour that they form can be cut on the machine.

  1. To select the two objects, holding down SHIFT + CTRL, use the mouse to select the objects.
  2. With the objects selected, on the Styles edit bar, click Cutting style.

 

The two outer objects are now in the Cutting style.

  1. Repeat Steps 12–13 to all the areas where you trimmed objects — see Step 11.
  2. To ensure that the entire outer contour is in the Cutting style — this is necessary for the correct closing — go to the 3D drawing.
  3. To open the entire design, in the tabular area click Initial State.
  4. To apply the changes you have made, click Refresh Drawing .

NOTE: The sequences continues after an external 3D object has been inserted into the folded box. Since the insertion of 3D objects is outside the purpose of the current scenario, the steps relating to it have been omitted. For details, see Inserting external 3D objects into folding sequences.

  1. Close the file.

IMPORTANT: While closing the file, EngView prompts you to save the changes you have made. In the dialog, click the YES option.

EngView disappears and you are again working in Illustrator.

  1. Save the file as an Illustrator file.