Contact me directly to find out more about upcoming short courses or bespoke private tuition to suit your business needs and timetables.

I offer a short courses in 3Design CAD for beginner and intermediate users, focusing on using the program’s parametric functionality to help streamline the design and editing process for CAD jewellery design. Go to our Courses and Events pageto find out about upcoming courses.

If this whets your appetite for learning more about how to use 3Design software for your CAD/CAM jewellery design and manufacturing, I can provide you with three options: Contact me to discuss the advantages of 3Design relative to other jewellery CAD programs, and whether 3Design is the best jewellery CAD software package for you.

This can make creating complex mechanisms and assemblies a bit tricker conceptually than they might be in programs without full parametrics.

In practice, it also means you’re building objects based upon each other rather than just placing geometry in space. While most CAD programs now have some limited parametric capability (often called History), the fact 3Design is designed entirely around parametric modelling makes it ideal for any workflow where the designer has to rework the design over and over again, such as size ranges or collections based on the same motif. If you go back and change an earlier step, all later steps will be affected. That means you don’t store models as geometry, but rather as steps in a process. 3Design CAD’s Advantages and WeaknessesģDesign is a fully parametric CAD modelling program. It offers a very different approach to modelling, involving working with solids rather than surfaces, deforming existing shapes, and combining them with a host of jewellery-specific commands such as pave and shank builders. 3Design CAD (pronounced Three Design) is the only jewellery CAD program that runs on Mac and Linux as well as PC.

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