User Guide · Exporting
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Exporting, with the gates on the table
Every export in PacFully names the plan it needs before you click — the badge sits on the button inside the export dialog. Here is the same table, up front, followed by what each format actually produces.
The plan-gate table
| Export | Minimum plan | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| PNG render, 1K (1024 px) | Free | Watermarked on the Free plan |
| PNG render, 2K (2048 px) | Lite | No watermark |
| PNG render, 4K (4096 px) | Pro | GPU permitting — see below |
| JPG render | Lite | Same pipeline, JPEG compression |
| Dieline SVG | Lite | True vector, themed |
| Dieline PDF | Pro | Via the browser print sheet |
| Dieline DXF | Pro | R12 CAD, mm units |
| Share link | Free | Read-only /editor?state=… URL |
| Embed snippet | Business | <iframe> with the embed viewer |
While billing is being rolled out, the export dialog includes a plan preview switcher so you can see exactly what each tier unlocks — the same switcher the table above describes. Free-plan raster exports carry a tiled PacFully watermark with a banner, composited onto the image itself; Lite and above render clean.
PNG and JPG renders
Renders re-draw the current 3D scene off-screen at the chosen resolution — 1K, 2K, or 4K — with your lighting, background, and artwork applied, then download as PNG or JPG. The on-screen view is never disturbed: the capture resizes an off-screen target and restores the renderer afterwards.
4K depends on your GPU
Dieline SVG, PDF, and DXF
Dieline exports come from the same parametric generator as the flat view — solid cut lines, dashed creases, a 3 mm bleed layer, dimension annotations, and panel labels. They exist for the six box templates; containers have no folding blank and show a no-dieline state instead.
- SVG — a themed, true-vector file with the full annotation set. Opens in any vector editor or browser.
- PDF — a clean print sheet opens in a new window and triggers the browser print dialog; choose Save as PDF. It is a print-ready sheet, not a generated vector PDF (a native PDF writer is planned).
- DXF — minimal, valid R12 DXF in millimetres with geometry on separate
CUT,CREASE,BLEED, andDIMSlayers, ready for CAD and die-making software.
Share links
Share copies a read-only /editor?state=… link: the recipient opens the exact scene — template, dimensions, material, colors, artwork placements — without touching your local save. Links larger than a few kilobytes can't carry uploaded artwork, so images above roughly 1.5 KB are stripped from the URL; the toolbar tells you when that happened. Small SVG symbols and patterns always survive.
Embed snippets
The embed export produces an iframe snippet pointing at /editor?state=…&embed=1. The embed viewer hides the editing chrome and keeps the 3D model interactive — orbit, zoom, lid animation. It is read-only by convention rather than by enforcement, so only embed scenes you are comfortable making public.
Print-readiness caveat