Pack Studio 1.10 Software Release Notes

Stacking is rebuilt from the ground up, the app can now size a box for you and pick the best part orientation on its own, dunnage gets richer and exportable as real CAD geometry, and a complete in-app guide explains all of it.

A complete in-app User Guide in 1.10

Pack Studio now ships with a full, illustrated guide built right into the app, no separate downloadable PDF, no hunting. Every packing method, every dunnage type, costing and ROI, palletization, reports, and troubleshooting are documented with worked examples and screenshots.

It's the fastest way to get a new user productive, and a reference for the details even seasoned users forget.

Optimize Box sizes the carton for you

Don't know what box to use? Point Pack Studio at a part and it sweeps a whole range of carton dimensions — sizing each candidate around your dunnage and weight limits — then proposes the best box for every pallet, ready to drop straight into an analysis.

It turns box selection from a guessing game into a one-click search, so you start from the most economical option instead of working backward from a hunch.

Stacking, from the ground up

Vertical or horizontal, lattice or grid. Four stacking shapes from one method.

The column-builder has been completely reworked. Stack vertically up the box or horizontally across the floor, then tile columns either by a dense lattice or a clean compartment grid.

New controls let you cap parts per stack, tier into layers with separators, and repack the leftover strip.

Best of all, Pack Studio now nudges the part's orientation automatically to find the densest stack, so you no longer have to hunt for the perfect starting pose by hand. The result is tighter, more predictable packs for tubes, sleeves, cans, and sheet metal, with proper margin control in all three directions.

Optimal orientation

Not sure which way a part should face? Let the engine decide. The new Optimal orientation hands rotation choice to Pack Studio, which searches for the pose that fills the box most densely instead of locking to a fixed starting angle.

Available with Flexible and Planar Layering, it often finds packs a human wouldn't think to try.

Stable, minimal, or optimal. Pick poses by hand, or let the engine choose.

Trays, reworked to now have two options

Two tray types. Die Cut Foam, and Thermoformed Plastic molded to the part contours.

The tray dunnage type has been rebuilt and now offers two Tray Types: Die Cut Foam, a foam block with a pocket cut for each part, and Thermoformed Plastic, a plastic shell molded to the part contours.

And both export for manufacturing, both the Die Cut Foam tray as CAD geometry (STEP/DXF) and the Thermoformed Plastic tray as STL.

Other notable changes/improvements

Packing Environments	The environments that bundle your settings, boxes, pallets, and container got a full rework, save a setup as a reusable profile and apply it to a new analysis in two clicks. Perfect for per-customer baselines.
Wooden Crates	A new rigid crate container on an integrated skid, available as a reusable asset or a single-use expendable, complete with brackets and a wood-grain look in the 3D view.
Part Designer	Describe a part as a sphere or cylinder, not just a box, perfect for quick concepting before a CAD model exists.
Dunnage & 3D Export	One tidy menu exports the current pack to 3MF, STL, or OBJ — parts, box, and dunnage independently. And dunnage now exports as manufacturing-ready files: foam inserts and Die Cut Foam trays to STEP and DXF, and Thermoformed Plastic trays to STL, straight to your supplier.
Explode View	The exploded pack view is reworked and now lives in the main 3D view, not just the report. Slide to lift parts, dunnage, and box layers apart and see exactly how a loadout goes together.
Pallet Layout	The variable-columnar pallet layout packs tighter, handling mixed-orientation and tight-fit cases the uniform grid used to miss, so per-pallet counts and footprint come out right.