[Jewelry making - Article 00118] - Re: [Orchid] Monarch CAD software

[Ramona]

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Hi,

    Just waking up and haven't followed this thread too closely, but if
    you are looking at POVRAY you might try Autodesk's Maya Personal
    Learning Edition: 

    http://tinyurl.com/l824w 

    It's free for non-commercial use. Not sure what the limitations are,
    but I'm sure there are some. I've never known Autodesk to give
    anything away "free". I used to sell and work on AutoCAD (their
    original product) for the mold and die industry in another life. I
    downloaded Maya to my Mac Mini running OSX 10.4.10. Seems to work
    fine. Just haven't had the time to get into it. It looks pretty
    overwhelming, but if you looked at POVRAY it should be about the
    same learning curve (straight up!). If you do play around with Maya,
    keep me posted. I'd like to know how it adapts for jewelry design. 

    Google also has a free program called Sketch Up -
    http://sketchup.google.com. I don't think it's on the same level as
    Maya, but again, it's free. I haven't played with this one either.
    They all have a learning curve which I just don't have the
    inclination to climb right now. 

    Let us know if either of these work for you. 

Ramona
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