Dieline in Packmage carton box design

What is a Dieline?

The dieline is the template for a package. It’s a flattened outline of the cutlines and folds. You cannot create a product package design without one – so don’t even try.
If you took apart a cereal box and flattened it out, you’d be looking at the dieline. The edges of the box are the cutlines and all the seams and creases are the folds and overlaps. It’s basically supermarket origami that must also be sturdy, functional and do a darn good job of attracting the consumer’s interest.
Your dieline must be perfect. You’ll be creating an extremely tight layout, a pixel perfect balancing act between competing design elements, so even loosing an eighth of an inch will often require a reworking of the entire package. This is why I never start a package design without a finalized dieline. Otherwise I’m just guessing and ultimately wasting my time and giving my client a false sense of accomplishment.

So How Do You Create a Dieline?

If you get a finalized dieline straight from the printer (the most likely scenario), it will have the bleed requirements and all the manufacturing notes already on it. This is ideal and if you have that you don’t need this tutorial.
However, sometimes you’ll be working with a client in the early stages. Perhaps they’ll send you a box from another product and direct you to make one just like it. Maybe they’ll FedEx you a bottle or jar and ask you to make a label that maximizes the container’s real estate. Or maybe they’ll send you the product itself and ask you to design a box, clamshell or blister pack to hold it. If this is the case then this tutorial is for you.
Labels and other two dimensional package designs are easy and you can generate perfect dielines for these on your own. However, unless you are reproducing an existing box, working from an existing dieline, or you have extensive experience in CAD applications, you can’t realistically create a perfect three dimensional package dieline on your own. However, you can start the ball rolling and then turn over your dielines, notes, and a sample of the product to a printer or manufacturer and they can use it as the basis for creating a working dieline.

Dieline in Packmage

For begginers, packmage predefined dieline in the box struture, you can check the photoes as follow:
http://packmage.blog.com/files/2011/05/ZW001-buttomlocktray.jpg
Since Packmage predefined dielines and box shapes, it’s much more convenient for new user.

Packmage 3D box modeling new improvements

Packmage 3D box modeling features new improvements will be released soon, there are the details:
1> Solved the 3D high definition compatibility with 64-bits OS systems;
2>3D lights intensity and angles can be adjusted with nice presentation;
3>3D cardboard inside background color has been modified；
4>paperboard of hollow out clipping in 3D presentation improved.

How to lower down cost for box packaging design

The process of communication, design and confirmation takes a lot of time and cost of package production, Packmage is the solution for the problem, it is designed to provide for cost control and efficiency optimization control low cost, the processing scheme of the high effective.
Packmage makes structure design so simple.
First, Designer needs to choose the box style from the database, after enter the size and edit the parameters, the software will finish the package expend die-cut automaticly.
Second, export the die-cut file as other graphic file formats for graghic designer. There are 4 types of file formats, scr, wmf, html, and bitmap file formats just like bmp, jpg, gif etc.
Third, after finishing the graphic design, you must to save it as JPEG type file which can be imported and pasted to create actual design by our Packmage.
Then, you can preview the visual presentation of the cartoon folding process and it shows how the artworks fit seamlessly into the die-cut.
Fourth, the folding process(3D display) can be save as a AVI which is a type of video, you can send it to your customer or inform your customer to check it on line through our Packmage client.
At last, Step and repeat feature offers the best box step and repeat solutions to lower down cost.
Due to its easy operation, Packmage packaging carton box design software is extremely suitable for small business such as packaging box design company, prototype factory, corrugated and folding carton manufacturer.
Compared with traditional product packaging design, what can Packmage brings to users?
Time cost
Traditional structural design: Mechanical replication and collage, many attempts, it must take a lot of time to finish the structural design. Before confirmmation, Designer have to send proofs to customer. It takes a lot of time too.
Packmage: Digitized design, The entire structural design can be finished in a few minutes. Through virtual prototyping, communication can be immediatly, which can help user gain more business opportunity.
Material cost
Traditional proofing: There must be a lot of materials are used to attempts and proofs.
Packmage: Before the design confirmed, what you need is just a database on your computer. With Packmage 3D box modeling feature, you can show the blank sample and color sample to customers directly.
Labour cost:
Traditional: Professional is needed to do the package design.
Packmage: Because of the simple operation, anyone can make the package design by Packmage.
For switching data from the server to your computer, keep your computer connecting to network whenever using Packmage. After structure designed, the file can be saved on local hard drivers.
For getting more information of our Packmage software details, please downloading the free trial.