[Jewelry making - Article 00709] - Re: [Orchid] The End of The Hand Carver

[Lizzieq]

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    I will make a short comment on what has been said: Creativity does
    not live in the computer any more than a wonderful photograph lives
    in the camera. Behind the camera is the phographer and behind the
    well-done cad design is a person who has first learned the program
    and most of all has the creative talent to bring it to a render which
    is not cookie cutter. Sure, just as copy/paste works in text, some
    cad designs will be done by less than creative people. They know the
    program and will produce so so designs. They will also render the
    designs of others as a copy artist might do. This last service is
    quite valuable to the designer who does not have access to or
    training to run the cad program...the design is farmed out to the cad
    person. The jewelry cad tech is a good resource to have when you
    design and don't have the time yet to do it yourself. 

    What comes out is the result of the person running the program and
    what they are working with creatively. If the design is worthy that
    will be proven in the final product, whether a single item or mass
    produced. 

    I see the use of cad no different than the photographer going
    digital and retouching in graphics software, neither of which will
    make a beautiful item if the beauty is not there is the first place
    regardless of production method. 

    I don't see this killing the wax carver. We do both, designs farmed
    out to a cad tech and hand carving. For designs needing revision as
    the work is done, hand carving works wonderfully.

Well, that is my 2 cents.

Tom

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