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Tubular box structural design

The theory of carton box design is a little complicated, In this article we will talk about the structural design formula and some commonly tubular box structure.

Size	E	EX	B4	V	FX
D＝Caliper
<0.45mm	B-D	D	B-D	D	D
046－0.65mm	B-D	D	B-D	D	D
0.66－0.99mm	B-D	D	B-D	D	D
1.00-1.80	B-D	D	B-D	D	D
Size	ZX	Z4	YH	S	N	FS
D＝Caliper
<0.45mm	3	3	D+0.5	D	F/4 mm	D
046－0.65mm	3	3	D+0.5	D
0.66－0.99mm	3	3	D+0.5	D
1.00-1.80	3	3	D+0.5	D

Note: When FX and Y equal 0, E=B

A	17mm<=A<=30mm	30mm	100mm	A>150mm
	F=10mm	F=13mm	F=15mm	F=18mm

-----C-----	----YZ------	-----G-----
Glued Piece	Rule A>60 Y=7.5,Z=5.0	Dust Flap Formula1 Formula 2 The following can be ignored ------------------------------ Note：The following parameters can be changed according to requirements G=1/2 or G=B4 Formula 3

Structure of the end of the tubular folding carton box

1、Tuck end

2、Lock-End

3、Self Lock End

4、Glue End

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Cardboard packaging boxes design and production

Cardboard packaging boxes design and production

There're lots of complicated steps before a cardboard packaging boxes produced in the factory, each step can not be wrong. The main production process of the packaging box can be divided into: Design-> Design Draft->Final Design->Film ->Printing template->Packing.

For packaging designer, the work mainly include draft design and some prepress works:

1> Confirm the cardboard type and the size of the packaging box, for example, if the product size is 150*120*300, the designer should bear in mind the virtue spaces to input and out the product. The preliminary width of the flat pattern would be: 160+130+160+130, here we do not consider seal width and offset. The hight of the packaging box can be 310 according to the same reason, then the length, width and hight of the packaging box would be 160*130*310. According to the weight of the product the designer can choose related cardboard type because the cost must be take into consideration here. For example if we choose 350g ivory board here, caliper 0.5mm.

2>Drawing the die line according to requirements with CAD software. Offset shouldn't be ignored during this process.

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Lots of people in packaging industry might not know much about the packaging box structure, or haven't spent too much time drawing the box structure on the computer, here we can use Packmage CAD software, first user need to download and install it. Then we can login the software choose box template from the library.

In Packmage CAD software library, all the box templates are listed as folding, unfolding and half-folding status, the colored boxes have been activated, the gray boxes need to be activated, and the box templates are classified as material, structural and usages, which is more intuitive and easy for user to select the right box template. If we chose FJ039 for example.

Modify the length, width and depth with 160,130 and 310. caliper 0.5. Once the box structure confirmed, it can be exported as DXF format directly from packmage CAD software, ordinary laser die-cutter has CAD plug in for bridges and calculate the total length of die-line and folding line.

The next step is to design draft. Designer can import the structural design into photoshop for graphic design. Then import the graphic design into Packmage CAD software to match with the structural design to check the 3D color sample. When the final design confirmed, if the quantities of the boxes are huge, it should proofing first, there should have prototype machine, also called box cutting machine.

There are two more processes called Film and Print plate need to be done before producing the box. There're 3 ways to check the final effect before printing:

1> Get the high definition draft before film（It's cheap but not so accurate）;
2>Get few digital print samples, after confirmed then start film and printing if the quantities are huge, else digital print directly.
3>Ask the film company print few samples when making film, that's the most traditional way, the cost is a little expensive and time consuming.

Software might be used: Photoshop and AI for graphic design, Step and repeat(CDR, In design, Quarkxpress etc.)

After this step, we will need to make printing template and send to printing factory for massive production. The last step is Packing, all the cardboard boxes are flattened and packaged into the boxes to falicitate transportation.

During these steps, the hardware machine need to be used include: Computer, printing-down machine, print machine, prototype machine, laser die-cutter, Zapi machine and glued machine.

Software: AI,PS, CDR and Packmage CAD software work together to save time.

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Cigarette case design

To start the cigarette case design work, usually we need to draw the die line on CAD software and doing graphic design work on photoshop software. For skilled packaging designer it is easy, those work can be done in hours. In this article I'd like to suggest another way for cigarette case design.

Packmage CAD software is a free packaging design software for corrugated cardboard and folding carton box design. It has a rich box templates library classified as the box material, structure and usages. The first step is to find out the cigarette box template in the library.

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Cigarette case design

Cigarette case design

To start the cigarette case design work, usually we need to draw the die line on CAD software and doing graphic design work on photoshop software. For skilled packaging designer it is easy, those work can be done in hours. In this article I'd like to suggest another way for cigarette case design.

Packmage CAD software is a free packaging design software for corrugated cardboard and folding carton box design. It has a rich box templates library classified as the box material, structure and usages. The first step is to find out the cigarette box template in the library.

In Packmage CAD box templates library, all the box templates are listed as 3D folding photo which is much more intuitive for user to find out the box. It will show the die line draft together with half-folding and unfolding photo once user selected one box template. Here we can find out the cigarette box template ID is FE024, then we can click to check the details and open it to modify the parameters such as length, width, depth, caliper etc. Because there's certain standard of the cigarette case, after the box templates opened you can adjust the size according to your need, here we choose the default value as the standard size, then you can export the file of the structural design.

The second step is to use photoshop software for graphic design according to the size of the cigarette case.

Save the graphic design with in two JPG format files. Attention: the size of the cigarette case in graphic design should be the same with the one in structural design, when start the texture process in Packmage CAD software, the two files could be matched automatically, you do not have to adjust the size and position. You can take the size in the structural design interface as a reference when starting graphic design.

After texture the graphic design together with the structural design, user can check the color sample of the cigarette case in 3D module. Then modify and confirm the graphic design in photoshop software according to the 3D display of the cigarette case.

After checked the 3D folding again, the cigarette case design finished, the final design could be the effect list in the following photo.

With Packmage CAD software, the designer do not have to be highly skilled, the whole packaging design process is easy and fast. What are you waiting for? Download Packmage CAD software and start your packaging design now.