[Jewelry making - Article 00680] - [Orchid] 3Design Jewel

[Neil George]

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    Dear All, For the last 3 months I have been beta testing the new
    3Design Jewel Package from Vision Numeric. This is a very exciting
    product, that in my opinion will be the dominant Jewellery Design
    Software. The fact that this is a hybrid modeler ensures a complete
    model that is water tight at all times. Hybrid Modelers which allow
    you to switch from solids to surfaces and back again offers a huge
    advantage over other design software packages. The design intent and
    the integrity of the model are maintained due to the fact that
    surfaces and polygons are being calculated at the same time. Other
    CAD packages do one or the other, which is why they are so weak in
    maintaining integrity and for the allowance of making changes on the
    fly without the need to redraw or re-assign new surfaces. Further due
    to the fact that the software is controlled via parametrics that is
    very similar to Solidworks with a Feature manager or design tree,
    allows for changes to be made to the model without starting over or
    loosing data. Parametrics allow the model to be designed either in
    free form or dimensionally driven formats. Therefore what you draw is
    really what you get. The feature manager allows you to select any of
    the features and change the info on that feature only, without
    disturbing any of the other features. However if you used a feature
    that will be linked or used to control another feature, then that
    feature will update accordingly. No need to go in and fix as is the
    norm in most other packages. You can create models in solid mode or
    wireframe mode or a combination of both. Either way, and at the end
    of the day, it will be a fully defined solid accomplished
    automatically. 

    So much can be said but I am trying to keep it short, however one
    feature that was truly amazing especially for those wishing to enter
    the CAD arena and are essentially talented artist, can actually draw
    3 views of a ring lets say, scan it in and by using the wizard it
    will actually create the 3D model from those 2D line drawings. If you
    can draw 3 nice views of a piece, you can convert it to 3D. This is
    the feature that I felt was the most compelling, due to the fact that
    a customer could hand you a sketch of what they want and now all you
    need to do is scan it, create the model and show them just how
    amazing you are and how accurate your representation actually is.
    Given that, changes can be made whilst working with the customer, is
    really the key. Further for those who are afraid of the learning
    curve, which of course will be there, especially to tap into the full
    power that the software offers, allows you to cheat on the front end.
    Yes you may wish to make changes to the model once created, and yes
    there would be a learning curve on how to run it, however, you now
    have taken 75% of the initial creation of the 3D item out of the
    equation. As you increase your knowledge of the software, the
    drawing of views by hand will become a mute but not necessarily a
    redundant feature. 

    I have given you maybe .005% of the power that this package offers,
    therefore for those that may have questions, by all means get in
    touch. I can forward a news letter with more info for those that wish
    to hear more about this package. 

Best Regards.
Neil George
954-572-5829


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