Creative 3D cardboard engineering a reality

A CADlogic product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Sep 14, 2000

CADlogic's 2D Windows-based parametric CAD system paraCAD+ is widely used for carton design, and the CAM interface called paraCUT makes 'creative 3D cardboard engineering' a reality

CADlogic Ltd's 2D Windows-based parametric CAD system paraCAD+ is widely used for carton design.

And CADlogic's special CAM interface called paraCUT drives many makes of flatbed plotter/cutter table to make "creative 3D cardboard engineering" a reality.

CADlogic's paraCAD+ and paraCUT operate in harmony to ease customer designs, redesigns, resizing and rescaling, to speed the production of prototypes (of any complexity), and to facilitate repeatability over any quantity, from a few to a few million.

CADlogic's 2D paraCAD+ system is simple to use, yet offers major assets of tailorability, high-level programming language and functionality found only in CAD software costing far more than its price of £1500 for a single user licence.

When you specify the style and enter the dimensions you want, parametrics draws up any item instantly.

CADlogic's paraCUT driver for the plotter/cutter table previews paths for cutting, creasing, scoring, pen-plotting or routing and calculates times of these operations to assist production planning.

Its on-screen "pre-plot" facility, showing operating paths and pen changes, ensures that the data is problem-free before it is sent to the table.

Entities (lines and arcs) are placed in order for the direction and sequence in which they are plotted.

Plot direction, as shown on-screen, is easily varied to conform to material type, thickness and grain or fibre orientation.

Plot files can at the press of a key be copied, mirrored, rotated, scaled or arrayed, before sending to the plotter/cutter via a serial cable.

Plot files are transferable from CADlogic's design software directly into standard DTP or graphics design systems, and in the other direction from DTP packages into paraCAD+.

This networked flexibility is vital in facilitating the exact correlation of artwork (graphics) with packaging geometry.

On some jobs packaging is designed around the artwork, and on others artwork is designed around the packaging.

CADlogic works with customers to tailor paraCAD+ and paraCUT to the specifics of the site and application.

Thus the versatile paraCUT supports many import and export file formats such as DXF, DWG (for AutoCAD), 'Common File Format' (CFF) 2 (for carton tool/die manufacture) and AI (Adobe Illustrator).

Moreover, CADlogic's systems are 'open' ones able to network with Sales, Estimating, Scheduling, Manufacturing and other departments, boosting productivity and efficiency company-wide.

For example, the new paraCAD+ drawing viewer program is invaluable for communication - allowing the latest versions of drawings to be accessed throughout a company, without interrupting studio workflow or risking unauthorised drawing changes.

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