Cobalt matches professional power with speed and ease-of-use for flexible 3D modeling. Available for both Macintosh and Windows, Cobalt lets creative people work without worrying about their software. Packaging and display designers save time and money by moving quickly from conception through completion in the real world of last minute changes.
Plastic packaging design for Johnson & Johnson, by Olivier Heusser, Switzerland.
Benefits at a Glance
Cobalt’s modeling and 3D rendering capabilities create:
- Any complex or organic shape easily in three dimensions.
- Virtual prototypes saving time and money.
- Winning customer and corporate presentations.
- Easy variations on a design and fast revisions from feedback.
- All types of packaging and display designs, including those for vacuum plastics, paperboard and corrugated display.
Design any Shape Imaginable
Sensual curves, organic forms and flowing edges are all easily drawn in Cobalt. Unlike traditional CAD programs, which lack the flexibility to create truly beautiful forms, Cobalt lets you set your own style, without limits.
Corrugated box design for the Luminária table lamp by Celso Santos of Rio 21, Brazil.
The Drafting Assistant™
Ashlar-Vellum pioneered the Drafting Assistant in 1989 to automatically snap to and align geometry to midpoints, endpoints and construction lines with precision and ease.
Parametric History on Demand
Parametric history is a powerful tool, making design changes fast and easy. It can also constrain creativity and become a bother. Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt uniquely allows packaging and display designers to use history on demand, only when needed, and ignore it when it is not, greatly increasing the creative process.
Fully Integrated Wireframe, Solids and Surfaces
Class-A NURBS surfaces, ACIS solids and intuitive wireframe are in one seamless package. A non-modal interface lets you switch between modeling techniques and approaches on the fly.
Transparent Tools
Great design software must disappear into the background, becoming an automatic extension of the designer as he or she concentrates on the project at hand. Cobalt is so transparent it doesn’t require you to think about it. It simply works the way you think.
Photo-realist and Sketch Rendering
Photo-realistic rendering goes beyond visualization to reality. Get faster buy-in from others on your ideas, then show manufacturing what you expect. Everyone sees exactly what you envision. Don’t want to present a completed idea? Cobalt’s sketch rendering makes your models look hand drawn, bringing out the artistic and emotional appeal in a design.
The Digital Cutting Solution, shown top left as a Cobalt model,
top right in two sketch renderings done in Cobalt
and finally as a photo-realistic rendering from Cobalt.
Translation
Cobalt Includes more than 30 professional translators to other software programs used in the CAD, graphics, CAM, packaging and display industries. Export as STL for 3D prototypes or as IGES, STEP or DXF for precision manufacturing.
Cosmetics packaging by Scott Oshry, Zorbit Resources, Los Angeles.
Full Mac and Windows Compatibility
No matter which operating system members of your team prefer, Cobalt supports them. Designers who prefer Mac OS X can easily exchange files with production people who require Windows 7, Vista or XP.
Learn More
For a detailed list of Cobalt features and specifications, visit the Ashlar-Vellum website at www.ashlar.com.