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News Release from: Unimatic Engineers | Subject: Craft ROBO software
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 January 2005
Software produces packaging ideas
Add a new dimension to packaging, art, craft and design activities with software that prints and cuts onto paper, card, vinyl, to produce cards, stickers and labels.
Add a new dimension to art, craft and design activities with the new computer-driven Craft ROBO from Unimatic Engineers This prints and cuts onto paper, card, vinyl, allowing you produce cards, stickers and labels as well as 'flat pack' designs which can then be folded into three dimensional products such as gift boxes, toys and novelties
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 24 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Ideal for use by both adults and children Craft ROBO can be used in studios, schools, colleges; by professionals, students, artists; for packaging, posters, labels, announcements etc, etc To install Craft-ROBO you simply insert the CD-ROM into your computer, wait for the menu to appear then follow the step by step instructions.
In use you design your product in say a CAD or drawing package and with a couple of mouse clicks you print and cut/score onto your chosen medium.
"Craft-ROBO is compact and lightweight, so is ideal for use in professional environments for, models, short run productions and prototypes," says Unimatic's Trupti Patel.
"It drives great efficiency through automation into tasks such as building multiple models for use in film studio special effects.
Another attractive feature is the ability to perform sequential and scaling operations, producing say personalised labels or a series of products of different sizes." The educational opportunities that Craft-ROBO offers in schools and colleges is virtually limitless.
From Primary level upwards, whole classes can produce individual designs and Craft-ROBO will cut and score them one after another while the students wait.
"It offers a whole new way for teachers and students to explore detailed design. Request a free brochure from Unimatic Engineers ...
You can start with a first design then change one detail at a time and produce a product each time so that you end up with a sequence of models demonstrating change adoption and alternative design options.".
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