Pack Studio 1.10 Software Release Notes

Stacking is rebuilt from the ground up, Optimize Box chooses the best box for you, dunnage gets richer and exportable as real CAD geometry, and a complete in-app user guide explains all of it.

A complete in-app User Guide in 1.10

Pack Studio now ships with a full, illustrated guide built into the app. Every packing method and dunnage type, the intricacies of costing and returnable analysis, and those advanced settings that you decided to ignore are all explained in detail here, along with examples and screenshots.

Find it in the toolbar: Help->User Guide

Optimize Box sizes the carton for you

Based on your part geometry and packing settings, Pack Studio can now find the best box size for you. It takes everything – your dunnage settings, part weight, ergonomics settings, pallets, shipping container, and beyond – and puts it into a single optimization, outputting the box that results in the lowest landed per-part cost.

It changes box selection from a guessing game into a one-click search.

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, and with more control than ever before. New controls let you cap parts per stack, tier into layers with separators, and control both distance between parts and the distance between stacks themselves. Stacking also gains increased compatibility with dunnage, such as partitions, layer dividers, and molded trays.

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 best stacking orientation by hand. The result is tighter, more lifelike packs for tubes, sleeves, and stamped metal.

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 now supports two options: Die Cut Foam, and Thermoformed Plastic.

Additionally, dunnage models can now be exported to CAD geometries: Die Cut trays and Foam Inserts as STEP or DXF, and molded plastic trays 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.