Arden Software launches software update

Arden Software has released its leading CAD software for the packaging sector.

Impact 2022 offers a range of new features and product enhancements designed to streamline packaging design workflow.

The software upgrade is the last released under an extended two-year development cycle with future releases anticipated to take place more frequently.

It includes performance and speed enhancements, new and improved 3D tools to bring your designs to life and better PDF password support for enhanced security. 

Matthew Hewitt, business development director at Arden Software, said: ‘Here at Arden Software, we are always striving to bring improvements to our software to deliver the best possible user experience and time savings for our customers, and we’re confident this latest version will help improve and streamline the creative process for packaging designers, die-makers and brand owners alike.’

He continues: ‘This latest version of our CAD software marks the last in our extended development cycle, where historically we tend to launch a significant release every two years. However, in line with customer expectations and today’s modern software delivery cycles, we’ll be delivering more frequent releases so Impact users can benefit from new developments more regularly. The next major release is already hot on the heels of Impact 2022, and it promises to be a gamechanger for the packaging design industry with the introduction of constraint-based design.’

Key highlights of Impact 2022, include: on-screen widget has been added for permanent camera control. The new tool offers some of the functionality of a 3D mouse – without the expense of the additional hardware. You can click and drag on the widget to interactively control the 3D view without breaking out of the ‘dimension’ tool, for example.

Addtionally, the 3D Snapshot tool has been completely reworked. A new dockable toolbox has been added which allows you to configure the Snapshot tool and take multiple snapshots with ease. Users can now deploy horizontal and vertical cursor lock modes on your 3D designs extending the range of 3D dimension and enquire tools. 

When exporting PDFs, it’s now possible to add password protection to files for enhanced security, as well as directly importing secure PDFs. Further, Impact is now able to import Cimex CimPACK (*.cim) files. Arden Software acquired American software company Cimex in 20220, and the new feature offers more flexibility for die-makers, CimPACK and Impact users.

Other improvements included improved searching and enhanced layer list display.

The Arden Software Development Team are now working on the next major release due later this year, which will include a new design tool that will allow to become the first ever packaging design CAD software to offer geometric constraint tools.