r/jewelryCAD

I manage a jewelry ecom store and our customers are skewed strongly towards females, probably because most of the creative assets I'm given feature females. I badly need male ecom product assets. I've tried messing around with Gemini but it often got sizing and alternate angles wrong. Can anyone recommend some ai image engines to try out? Mostly close-up shots on hands/neck but willing to try anything! Thanks in advance!

I have an aquamarine ring emerald with diamonds chips on a delicate band. I see many earrings and necklaces that could match a set well but want something original. Looking for someone to help perfect my design and make. Please PM me if this is up your alley.

Hey everyone! Quick intro, I’m London based, new to the industry, taught myself CAD and have become very confident with it and have been fortunate enough to make CAD designs for clients as well as custom jewellery.

Now I want to get a job in the industry and learn so much from people that have been in it for a long time. I’m not finding many job postings recently so any advice on what I should do?? Thank you!!

Need a CAD design done for pendant feel free to dm me

Hi everyone,

we currently use Rhino 8 as our main CAD software for jewelry design and are now looking into expanding our workflow with additional plugins or specialized jewelry CAD tools.

So far we have looked at:

• CrossGems
• Grasshopper Gold
• RhinoArtisan
• 3Design

Our current impression:

• CrossGems looks modern and very strong for parametric workflows
• Grasshopper Gold seems extremely flexible and affordable
• RhinoArtisan looks very production-oriented with a fast workflow
• 3Design seems more like the large enterprise / luxury jewelry solution

What matters most for us:

• fast workflow for jewelry design
• parametric workflows and easy variations
• strong Rhino 8 integration
• suitable for small to medium-scale production
• minimal unnecessary overhead
• stable software and active community
• good learning curve
• suitable for training apprentices and junior designers internally
• tools that new employees can realistically learn without extremely long onboarding

Budget is flexible if the productivity increase actually justifies the cost.

Would love to hear real-world experiences from people actually working professionally in jewelry CAD.

A few questions:

1. What are you currently using professionally together with Rhino?
2. Which plugins or workflows saved you the most time?
3. Would you stay with Rhino + plugins, or move directly to something like 3Design or MatrixGold?
4. Are there any underrated plugins or tools we should absolutely look into?

We are also interested in opinions about:

• Panther
• MatrixGold
• Clayoo
• T-Splines-style workflows
• rendering / CAM / 3D print workflows

We want to avoid investing heavily into software that ultimately does not improve productivity much compared to pure Rhino.

Would really appreciate honest feedback from people working in custom jewelry, production, or serial manufacturing.