Where the Rubber Hits the Road

With Artios3D, structural designers like Lindquist can check the offsets between panels, tabs, etc. in the final folded product. It also “remembers” the fold angles, allowing these checks to be quickly performed at each step of the design process.

Can’t have one without the other

At Midlands Packaging, structural design usually precedes graphic design for the simple reason that it saves headaches down the road, especially for the graphic designer, but these parallel workflows are far from independent. “We like our customers to approve the structural design before dealing with the graphics. In practice, we’ll work from an engineering drawing or on the actual product to be packaged, then add some customer-supplied graphics, print and make some samples on our cutting tables,” Lindquist says. “Structural and graphic design really go hand-in-hand,” because the geometry of a package largely determines what and how the graphics get placed.