Internationally renowned Carrera Casting, a New York City-based jewelry casting company, has partnered with Solidscape to launch a new Jewelry Best Practices series. Carrera is best known for providing their global customers with world class jewelry CAD design, 3D printing and casting services. This new series offers best practices from a design point of view when using CAD and 3D Printing for jewelry manufacturing that will appeal to many audiences:

  • Jewelry designers unfamiliar with CAD
      • Develop an appreciation for how modern custom jewelry is made and the role that CAD and 3D printing technology plays
  • Jewelry designers just beginning with CAD
      • Develop insights about custom jewelry design, manufacturing and technology considerations
      • Learn from real jewelers to avoid making common CAD mistakes
  • Technical CAD Jewelry designers
      • Gain practical insights into key design, file management or 3D printing processes that will positively impact their results

Episode 1: Prongs & Walls

Tom Manos, CAD/CAM Director of Carrera Casting, shares his real world knowledge and expertise in the first episode to highlight important CAD design considerations for Prongs and Walls:

  1. Your ring may look good on your screen, but hidden engineering problems may hinder your building and casting process
  2. What is an optimal height to width ratio for the prongs
  3. Why drafting or pyramiding of the prongs matters
  4. How the tolerance between the prongs and the walls, or between the prongs themselves impacts your casting results

Solidscape is excited to launch the new series with Carrera, who has been acknowledged as a technology leader in the jewelry industry for over three decades. We hope you enjoy this first segment. Stay tuned- there are more Jewelry Best Practices videos to come!