[Jewelry making - Article 00165] - Re: [Orchid] Monarch CAD software

[John Donivan]

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>     POVRAY you might try Autodesk's Maya Personal Learning Edition: 

    POVRAY has been around as long as there have been computers. I don't
    know it's history in detail, but it's one of the first. No doubt
    it's been upgraded many times. It's also pretty old technology (as
    is Rhino). The latest parametric modelers are way farther out there.
    Maya's PLE is a complete version of Maya Standard. The only
    limitation is that it watermarks all output - it plasters "MAYA PLE"
    or whatever across your work, all the time. The estimate most people
    use is that it will take two years to learn Maya (that's from people
    who use it), but that also includes animation, which is it's
    strength, and dynamics and such, too. Modeling with it isn't so hard
    to learn. Again, though, it's a mesh modeler, not solids. If you
    want to play around with a mesh modeler, I'd suggest Z-Brush or
    Mudbox. They are 3d sculpting tools - make a sphere and then you
    model it just like clay. 

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