Recently added and improved features in Picador:

• Create a PDF file directly while preserving images and fonts.


• 2D - New version of the Layout Optimizer.
  Allow rotation items in both direction in the remaining space.


• 3D - Multi Assembling.
  Control thickness and folding angle before the automatic folding.


• PackLib can be hosted on Microsoft Azure Cloud.
  The common database (FEFCO, ECMA, ...)
  gets upgraded automatically and is always available.


• Picador XML Interface / Picador Batch XML Processing
  Solution to directly interface Picador with ERP/MIS solutions.


• Contextual Menu.
  2D/3D design with contextual menu.


• Hatching and Profile.
  New features to Create, Edit, and Modify Hatching.
  Improve and facilitate the creation of Profiles (inner, selection),
  shifted contours, create types.


• New Text Features.
  You can now define a list of texts that you
  want to insert without typing them again.


• The 3D part assembly system has been redesigned
  it has never been so simple and fast.


• Many models have been added in PackLib
  (packaging, display counter, POS/Display)


• A clearer 2D interface with new tools to facilitate structural design.


• Parametric Module simpler and more powerful.


• Inclusion of new features for cutting (camera, Vcut, optimization).


• Enhanced palletising module with new optimization and configuration functions.

Picador Tools and Key Features

2D

In addition to conventional 2D drawing tools,
Picador features many dedicated tools for packaging design;
catalog management, setting technical specifications, taxation/nesting, import/export ...

• Structural design


• Specific drawing tools for packaging and display


• Import/Export (PDF, EPS, AI, CFF2, DDES, DXF, DWG, IGES, HPGL, DIECAD (.N)


• Lay-out/Step and Repeat


• Parametric design

3D

Creating 3D folding, textured packaging, 3D PDF export ...

• Automatic 2D/3D folding


• Folding/unfolding 3D animation


• Printing files or texture positioning


• 3D animated assembly


• Creation of interactive and animated 3D PDF


• Create visual user instructions


• Import of CAD objects and 3D textured model


• Augmented reality view of 3D models

Cutting

• Manage all cutting tables:
  
  AOKE, ARISTO, BLACK&WHITE, DATA TECH, ELCEDE, ESKO KONGSBERG,
  GRAPHTEC, IECHO, INFOTEC CNC, KIMLA, LASERCOMB, MECANUMERIC,
  MIMAKI, SEI, SUMMA, WILD, ZUND, ...


• Prototyping and small series productions


• Tools settings according to the used material


• Automatic optimization of tools path

Database of Standards

ECMA, FEFCO, corrugated cardboard packaging, packaging.
Manage new parametric design models directly in Picador,
and you have the ability to create your own professional library.

• Packaging Standards libraries: ECMA, FEFCO ...


• Specific packaging and POS/Display libraries


• Automatic thickness management


• 3D folding animation


• Download new library and access to tutorials


• Export to Adobe Illustrator, PDF, Picador ...


• Optimize: lay-out, case-filling, palletizing


• Create your own parametrical models in Picador


• Synchronise the database on your network

Eco-design / Palletizing

• Filling cartons/case, palletizing, truck filling


• Optimal case calcul


• Material choice assistance


• Strength analysis


• Automatic analysis report

Many features dedicated to logistics optimization:

• Palletizing funds,


• Filling Cases / Case,


• Search Optimal cash: cases / packaging, secondary / pallet


• Palletizing bundles (cases or case flat),


• Palletizing cylinders


• Added: interlayers, cap, protective film, angles ...

Picador Benefits

2D

Speed up packaging and POS/Display structural design and
make the result more cost effective:

• Contains all the geometrical tools needed for effective packaging design:
  Geometry, Construction, Quotation, Hatch, Text and Image


• Study and Production functions: Data Sheet, Calculation (Surface, All out, Nets)


• Nesting, Imposition, Tools (Cutting, Slotting, Perforating),
  Cardboard Format, Plotter Output, Image Insertion and Digitizing


• Easily convert an existing draw into a parametric model


• Standards Libraries to resize at your own convenience
  (ECMA, FEFCO, POS/Display and Packaging)


• Additional Diemaker tool:
  Bridge, Cutting width nets (points), Wood format and Easy set


• 2D Import/Export:
  AI, EPS, AI, CFF2, DDES, DIECAD (.N), DXF, DWG, HPGL, IGES, PDF

3D

Picador’s built-in 3D capabilities allow for easy assembly simulation and virtual prototyping:

• Direct transfer of 2D model into Picador3D


• Automatic 2D/3D folding


• Folding and unfolding 3D animation


• 3D assembly, exploded and sequenced view of animated assembly


• Create an interactive and animated 3D PDF for easy exchange with stakeholders


• Printing files or texture positioning


• Imported graphic images and illustrations may come from software like
  CorelDraw™, Adobe Ilustrator™, Photoshop™, QuarkXPress™ (Mac or Windows)


• Import of CAD objects (IGES, IGS, STEP, STP)


• Import of 3D textured model (3DS, DAE, OBJ, STL ...)


• Interactive positioning, congestion calculation,
  intersection calculation for wedging achievement.


• 3D Export (Augmented Reality, DAE, STL, WebGL)

Cutting

Beyond design and visualization,
Picador also allows for creating physical prototypes or low volume production
by driving cutting tables and shaping lasers:

• Controls a large range of supported cutting and laser tables


• Allows for multi-model imposition, format and
  automatic optimization of the tools path


• Automatic speed and pressure setting according to the used material


• Parameters for tangential knife (fixed or oscillatory), creasing, pen,
  cutter, laser, waterjet-cutting or milling


• Simulate cutting on your screen


• Additional diemaker tool: laser cutting
  (bridge, nets width, flat and rotating forms, nets cutting, wood format ...)

Standards

Several packaging and POS/Dislay models are accessible
in Picador's standards catalogues:

• Parametrical standards of folding carton and
  corrugated cardboard (ECMA, FEFCO, POS/Display)


• Create a new library via the download area


• Create parametrical models in Picador in order to
  create your own professional library


• Length nets calculation, cutting surface imposition according
  to the forms and machines, lost


• Reusable plug-in with other applications (components dll .NET )


• Save your time and reduce errors

Palletization

Picador handles logistic optimization, palletizing, packing and truck loading:

• Easy to use


• Many features dedicate to palletizing and logistics optimization:
  case palletization, filling cartons/case, optimal case calculation,
  palletizing bundles (flat cases or cartons), adding interlayers,
  cap, protective film, angles ...


• Database of boxes in stock


• Automatic analysis report


• Strength analysis

Solution to directly interface Picador with ERP/MIS solutions:

---> send data from the ERP/MIS to create the technical datasheet of a design.

<--- receive results of calculation: lengths, superficies, format, number of items.

---> change attributes of line types.

<--- export in various format in the indicated path.

• Picador Batch XML Processing Guide (.pdf)


• Picador Batch XML Processing Guide (.txt)

Picador System Requirements

• Microsoft Windows 7, 8, 10


• CPU 2,5Ghz, RAM 2 GB / Recommended 4GB or more


• Monitor: 24" or more



FrameWork .NET

Important: (for Windows older than 2011)
PackLib and StackBuilder require Microsoft Framework .NET 4.0 Full or higher

Picador runs on Apple macOS with virtualizers,
like VMware Fusion and Parallel Desktop.

Picador Setup / Installation

The Picador user interface is easily configurable to be in:
- English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, and Chinese (Simplified).

The setup wizard automatically install all modules:

• Picador 2D


• Picador 3D


• PackLib (template libraries, ECMA, FEFCO, POS/Display)


• StackBuilder (packing, palletization, truck load)


• PackStress (calculation of packing and stacking resistance)


• Import/Export
  (AI, COLLADA, DXF, CFF2, DAE, DDES, EPS, FBX, IGES, OBJ, PDF, PLT, STEP, STL)

Complementing modules - require separate download and setup

PicCutting

Cutting Module Setup with post-processors to manage cutting tables and lasers:

• AOKE, ARISTO, BLACK&WHITE, DATA TECH, ELCEDE, ESKO KONGSBERG,
  GRAPHTEC, IECHO, INFOTEC CNC, KIMLA, LASERCOMB, MECANUMERIC,
  MIMAKI, SEI, SUMMA, WILD, ZUND, ...

PicViewer

Viewer and Converter.
PicViewer is a free software that allows you to view technical drawings
made in Picador DES format, manipulate them (add dimensions, ...),
and to export them to the industry format that you want to use:

• AI, CF2, DWG, DXF, EPS, PDF,... and other formats


• Convert Bezier/Spline/Nurbs in Arc


• Annotation, Measure...


• Dimension in inch or mm

PicMiniat (32-bit), PicMiniat (64-bit)

Display thumbnails in Windows Explorer for Picador and Picador 3D documents.

PicXDK

Picador SDK: PicXDK - ActiveX Components.