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The Process of Jewellery Production
Design software is the most important thing during the
process of making jewellery by computer. There are lots of
programsthatallowmodeling products, but in jewellery sector
more detailed programs should be used. For this reason some
special programs were written for jewellery. These softwares
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• Artcam Jewelsmith,
• 3Design Jewel,
• Freeform,
•Jewelcad,
•Jewelspace 3,
• Matrix 3D Jewellery Design Software Version,
• Solidworks,
• Rhinoceros.
InTurkey especially Jewelcad, Matrix, Rhinoceros and Freeform
are used. The operator using Jewelcad, begin drawing by lines
and design all surfaces as a solid model. The program also
allows the designer to see every sides of the design on the
monitor. Figure 5 shows the interface of Jewelcad program.
[ Figure 5. {Author's Collection)
Rhino (Figure 6) and Matrix (Figure 7) are other softwares.
These programs are especially used for taking photorealistic
images of the jewellery. Maybe the most important advantage
of using such programs is that the operator could show the
clients the rendering before beginning production. So the
client could imagine what s/he would buy. Furthermore, a
web site of the company or the catalogue of the products
could be prepared by using these images. Contrary to these
programs, Jewelcad's rendering (Figure 8) is not as good as
these software programs.
Figure 6. (Rhinoceros, 2007)
Figure 7. {Gemvision, 2007)
Figure 8. (Author's Collection)
In addition, in Rhino the operator could see the four sides of
the design while drawing, and the most important advantage
of Rhino with respect to Jewelcad is that the user could also
write the command to the command line at the top as it is In
AutoCad. On the other hand, the disadvantage is that the user
should draw all the jewellery components such as gem stones
before drawing a model. But in Jewelcad there are many
kinds of gem stones in every shape and cut in the software's
database.
Freeform is another program which is very different from the
other ones. In this program the operator should work like a
sculptor. Another feature of this software is that the operator