Strata Enfold 3D CX - 3D Packaging Design Plug-in for Adobe Illustrator

Fold 2D Artwork into 3D Designs Without Leaving Adobe Illustrator

Strata Enfold 3D CX puts the power of 3D directly into Adobe Illustrator. Easily define areas to print, cut, crease and fold and then watch your design become 3D in real-time using the Enfold 3D View palette. You can use new or existing vector and raster artwork to create greeting cards, boxes, packaging, point of purchase designs and more.

The Packaging Designer's Dream Software

Strata Enfold 3D CX addresses the most common problems associated with folded designs, making the whole process easier and saving you time by automating difficult tasks, including the ability to distribute graphics that need to match up across fold lines. It even allows you to select panels while in 3D View to zoom and rotate art boards.

Generate Print-Ready Packaging and Card Designs

With Enfold 3D you don't have to guess or do time consuming physical mock-ups just to work out design details. A design completed with Adobe Illustrator and Strata Enfold 3D CX will be ready to print and fold in the real world.

Integrate with Strata 3D CX Suite Products or Photoshop Extended

You can keep your 3D designs in Illustrator or export the 3D model for using in applications like Strata Design 3D CX or Photoshop Extended. From there your 3D design can be used for palette and point of purchase visualizations, photo matching to see how your design will look in a specific location, or even "beauty shots", which can be rendered before real inventory is even available.

PIA/GATF Award, The Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (GATF)

"...assists graphic designers by intuitively navigating through complex structural designs, facilitating a virtual view while creating the graphic design, literally as if designers were holding the three-dimensional package in their hands...By making the creation of packaging extremely intuitive, [Enfold 3D] takes away mind-boggling 2D-to-3D translations...Repetitive design aspects, such as repeating elements on panels or flaps, are efficiently handled by the 'Distribute' function to create effortlessly perfect crossovers...It is just fantastic. It makes life so much easier while, when creating graphics, you always have the opportunity to look at a 3D image of the packaging and turn it around. With just a small amount of knowledge of Adobe Illustrator, any designer is able to create a very nice graphic in a very short period of time."

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PrintWeek & Packaging News

"The star of the show is [Enfold 3D], a breakthrough product for Illustrator...[Enfold 3D] provides a 3D working window with a bi-directional link to a conventional Illustrator 2D design window...A designer might work in the intuitive 3D environment with any changes automatically applied to the correct position and orientation on the 2D flat. Alternatively, the 2D window can be used for image creation and fine positioning that's then applied to the 3D package."

IDS Packaging

Enfold 3D is "...the only solution that turns Adobe® Illustrator® into a full-fledged design and prepress production tool."

Featured Artist | Andrew Purchase, Branding & Packaging Designer

We were lucky to recently be introduced to Andrew Purchase and the work he has done using Strata Enfold 3D and the Strata 3D CX Suite, in conjunction with Adobe's design applications. In this Enfold 3D packaging design case study, Andrew fills us in on his work and the process of getting from concept, to 3D visualization, to finished product.

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Video | Strata Enfold 3D CX: Unique Print Invitation

Want to do more than just fold a piece of paper in half? With Enfold 3D you can design complex folds with sophisticated die cuts and see the results right in Illustrator. In this demonstration the fictional Aquo company launches a new energy drink with a party and a special print invitation.

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Video | Strata Enfold 3D CX: Carton and Point-of-Sale Design

Strata Enfold 3D CX lets you build real 3D folded designs such as folding print projects, complex packaging and point-of-purchase displays. In this demonstration Enfold 3D is used to build a sales counter POP display for Ungowa to generate impulse purchases.

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