[Jewelry making - Article 00902] - Re: [Orchid] 3Design Jewel

[Karen Goeller]

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    Neil, Based on your glowing recommendation, I visited the website for
    3Design Jewel.  It does, indeed, look like an impressive product and
    one that I would love to someday try.  However, its pricing places it
    WAY outside the market for many (most?) of us smaller artisan
    jewelers and probably out of the range of many independent jewelers,
    with a single license being $4900 (USD).  If you don't need machine
    output capability (which leaves you with exactly what??), you can get
    a single license for $2000. 

    Considering that the Rhino/Flamingo/Penguin software is available
    for a $1295 including machine-compatible format output capability and
    full rendering, I don't see how I could justify paying 3x that
    amount.  Rhino also has very attractive student/educational pricing
    options (which those of us who take or teach jewelry classes at
    accredited institutions quality for) that make the Rhino/Flamingo
    bundle available for $215. 

    I asked Vision Numeric and they do not have any educational pricing
    options available.  The best they could recommend was to get the
    instructor the $4900 version and the students each the $2000 one. 
    Obviously, they don't know diddly about the likelihood of most
    educational insitutions being able or willing to fork over that type
    of money for a single course track. 

    So for the time being, I'll be sticking with Rhino/Flamingo for my
    modeling needs.  Yes, it will make me do more of my own work, rather
    than relying on a template library of stones and mountings.  But that
    actually might force me to be more creative. 

Karen Goeller
kgoeller AT nolimitations.com
http://www.nolimitations.com
Handcrafted and Unique Artisan Jewelry


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