Richard.Deroo@esko.com - August 15, 2012

What’s New in ArtiosCAD 12 ArtiosCAD 12 will allow structural designers to design faster and more efficiently by reducing the user interaction required for common tools. This will allow packaging companies to respond faster to their needs of their clients so they can speed up the time to market for new products.

All features below are available in both the standard and enterprise edition of ArtiosCAD.

Collision Detection Simplify and speed up the creation of displays, assemblies and other multi-

part designs with automatic detection and visualization of collision between designs

Show and detect panel boundaries to prevent designs from intersecting

One-button Fill & Stack

Save hours creating multi-part designs and assemblies with simple filling and stacking tools

Duplicate designs in X, Y and Z direction just by dragging the cursor Automatically fill a carton, shelf, tray or display with a single mouse click

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Shelf-Ready Packaging Meet the growing demand from retailers to supply retail-ready and shelf-ready

packaging New line types and 3D visualization for tear-strips and tear-away panels Instantly create 3D animation from production files with tear-away features

Expanded and Customized Line Types

New linetypes for cut/crease, partial cut perfs and laser creases Customizable multi-perf line types for cuts and gaps with different lengths

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2D Drafting Enhancements New rectangle from line tool options will automatically convert source lines to

creases for quick drafting of panels Additional radii snap points makes drafting easier Save time copying designs and geometry with new single-step copy in

multiple directions

Artwork Panel and Dynamic Art Tools

Improve communication between brand owners, structural design and graphic design with detailed artwork panel information

Enrich ArtiosCAD files with dynamic artwork placeholders for barcodes, nutrition fact tables, product identity, legal statements and more

Intelligent placeholders can be read by Esko’s Dynamic Content Illustrator plug-in for a completely automated design process

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Optimization for Re-board® Production and Visualization New linetypes for reverse V-notch crease improve production of Re-board New edge band linetype with customizable colors and sizes enable

visualizing the finish design with edge bands Calculate total length of edge band needed for production

Round-trip TOPS Integration

Send geometry data from TOPS to ArtiosCAD to run standards Send ArtiosCAD 3D file to TOPS for palletizing Show full TOPS pallet load in ArtiosCAD 3D

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DWG Importing & Exporting Native AutoCAD DWG importing and exporting insure proper file transfer Customize import tuning to match user workflow

3D Import Enhancements

50% or greater performance improvement when importing 3D models Select specific parts of an assembly to optimize importing only the relevant

components New file importing of Autodesk® Inventor® and Spatial XCGM files