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Type the Size. Get a Dieline Ready for the Die.

Packative CAD turns three dimensions into an engineering-accurate dieline, with cut and crease lines drawn apart. It is built into Packative One on every plan, Enterprise adds EngView templates and a 3D preview of the folded box, and the same drawing carries through nesting, the quote, and the file your die maker cuts from.

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The Packative CAD editor: length, width and height entered for an ECMA folding carton, with the generated dieline showing cut lines in red and crease lines in blue
Three dimensions in, a full dieline out: cut lines in red, creases in blue.
Packative CAD templates
650+
On every plan
EngView templates
2,000+
On Enterprise
Folded preview
3D
With EngView, on Enterprise
Cut-ready output
DXF
For your die maker

How It Works

One Drawing From First Sketch to the Die

Every step after the dieline reads the dieline itself, so nobody redraws the box between the quote and the press.

See the Box Folded Before the Die Is Made

With the EngView library on Enterprise, a template opens in a 3D preview of the folded box. Your customer checks proportions and the opening before anyone commits to a die or a print run. It answers the question a flat drawing cannot: what the box will look like on the shelf.

A 3D preview of a closed kraft box with a thumb notch on the front lid, standing on a grid
The folded box in 3D, from the same template you quote on.

The Drawing You Quote Is the Drawing You Cut

The dieline goes straight into nesting, which lays it on your parent sheets and ranks every layout by cost. The quote is priced from that layout, and the DXF your die maker receives is the same drawing. Nothing is retraced in between.

The nesting layout from a live calculation: two beer-carrier dielines nested on a 728 by 515 millimeter sheet, with units per sheet, total sheets, and waste
The same dieline, nested on a parent sheet and priced from the layout.

Two Libraries

Start From a Standard, or From Your Own Drawing

Packative CAD covers everyday structures on every plan. Enterprise adds the EngView library, and the DXF files you already have work too.

Packative CAD

Every plan

650+parametric templates

Built into Packative One. Covers the FEFCO and ECMA standards and rigid boxes, each template parametric, so any size is a few keystrokes away.

EngView

Enterprise

2,000+parametric templates

The EngView Standards Library, connected inside Packative One, with production-ready tooling for the structures your engineers already know, a 3D preview of the folded box, and template names in several languages. It works well with the EngView CAD desktop version: templates your designers create there upload to Packative One and become standard templates for the whole team.

Your DXF

Every plan

DXFimport

Bring the dielines you already have. Imported files are read into cut and crease lines and nest the same way as any template.

Common Questions

Packative CAD Questions

The FEFCO and ECMA standards, plus rigid boxes, all parametric. More than 650 templates in total, on every plan. If a structure you sell regularly is missing, name it in the demo.

Did Not Find Your Answer?

Bring a structure you quote often and we will generate it, fold it in 3D, and nest it on your sheets in the demo.

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See Your Own Box in Packative CAD

Bring a structure you quote every week. In the demo we generate it, show it in 3D, and nest it on your parent sheets.

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