[Jewelry making - Article 00356] - Re: [Orchid] A paradigm shift: print on demand objects to sell

[Jeff Demand]

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John,

    I too have noticed that a lot of CNC look very much the same. I
    suspect that this is the product of using high end jewellery
    specific software tools exactly as the program developers intended,
    never colour outside the lines and it all has the same "look". I say
    suspect because I don't even bother to demo anything which I can't
    justify purchasing because of price. 

    Granted under cuts aren't easy without a 5 axis mill but square sided
    shapes come from square sided models. Want the shadow lines resulting
    from wires on a plate, create them as grooves around the wire in the
    plate in the model... not quite the same but very close to the same
    look is possible. A good designer has to work with the tools and
    their strengths and limits; hammer or 5 axis CNC both treated the
    same care and understanding. And just as a hammer is the best tool
    for some jobs so is CNC 

Jeff
Demand Designs
Analog/Digital Modelling & Goldsmithing
http://www.gmavt.net/~jdemand
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