Impact’s Layout Creator feature will calculate the optimum sheet fit and most efficient on-press nesting pattern for the print and manufacturing process. A range of pre-programmed settings facilitate the simultaneous, automatic production of one or more layouts. Visual feedback about press utilisation is given throughout the process to enable users to make adjustments that help reduce costs through waste reduction optimise the manufacturing process.

Whether you’re a sole operator or a multi-national enterprise; involved in short run or high volume production; work with solid board, in corrugated, or plastics; there is an Impact design edition that has everything you need to help you differentiate your company from the competition and make your business more innovative, efficient, productive, and profitable. Impact incorporates the industry’s most automated and powerful features for structural design, product development, and 3D virtual prototyping, and is used by an ever growing number of the world’s leading packaging manufacturers.

As a world leader in the development of design and manufacturing solutions for packaging, Arden Software is ahead of the field in recognising that when it comes to designing for packaging manufacture, these days it’s less about CAD and more about how CAD is able to integrate design with all the other workflows in a business. Packaging manufacturers often have personnel spread out over many plants and need to collaborate on projects. With lead times being so short these days, it is essential that information is available to these personnel, and anyone else who needs it, anywhere and anytime it’s needed.

Good communication is an essential part of any successful design process, and there is no better way to achieve good design communication than visually. The production of virtual 3D prototypes and samples using Impact’s 3D Creator feature means that there is no need to waste valuable time and money producing early stage samples, because an Impact ‘virtual 3D sample’ takes just seconds to create.

The natural extension to being able to see how a completed design looks as a 3D model is to be able to see how it assembles in 3D. Impact’s 3D Animation feature is easy to use and enables users to create a simple movie in just a few minutes. Animating more complex, multi-part structures, such as point of sale displays, takes that little bit longer, but are well worth the effort because in the right hands the results are spectacular.