Design packaging with the Adobe Illustrator plug-in

If you design packaging in Adobe Illustrator, the Die Cut Templates plug-in brings the whole catalogue into a panel docked right next to your canvas — so you can browse dielines, place them at true size, and turn your artwork into a 3D mockup without ever leaving Illustrator.

Why use the plug-in

The manual routine means hopping between your browser and Illustrator on every change: download a dieline, open it, add artwork, export an image, upload it to preview the mockup, then repeat for every revision. The plug-in removes that round-trip entirely.

1. Browse 37,000+ dielines without leaving Illustrator

Search every category and template from the panel — the same catalogue you'd browse on the website — docked next to your artboard.

2. Place a dieline at true size

Drop any dieline onto your artboard at its exact production dimensions, with the cut and crease layers kept intact. The artboard auto-fits the dieline with even margins, so it's ready for artwork straight away — no manual scaling or alignment.

3. Turn artwork into a 3D mockup in one click

When your design is ready, one click turns the flat artwork into a photorealistic 3D mockup — which you can then render as a smooth 360° cinematic video in up to 8K, right in your browser.

What you need

Adobe Illustrator 2021 (25.0) or newer on macOS or Windows, and a Die Cut Templates account. The plug-in is free to download: you can place and customise the demo template — a Tuck Top Auto Bottom box and its variations — at no cost, and a subscription unlocks all 37,000+ templates.

Prefer to import a file by hand instead? See Import a DXF dieline into Illustrator.