Jewellery Design Using CAD Technolog You may be surprised to hear that most wholesale jewellery today is designed on computers using advanced design software calledCAD.What is CAD?CAD is a Computer aided design software used to create jewelleryitems. CAD does not completely replaces traditional techniques of making masters by hand but rather used in pandora jewellery manufacturing to cut the costs.
to create masters of jewellery itemsthat have been hollowed out to cut gold content (otherwise their manufacturing would be almost impossible) and to save gold wastage created by filling and off cuts.But there are other reasons as well. pandora necklaces produces images in a number of different angles as well as the rendered imageallowing both the designer and the customer to visualise the final design and make necessary alterations before any manufacturing is started.From CAD to lifeOnce the design has been approved by the customer it will be printed in wax using 3D printer pandora charms.
a form ofadditive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is created by successive layers of material . in this case wax.This wax model that has been created is used to cast the pandora beads item in therequired metal and the correct size.To finish the process the item is filled. buffed and pre-polished to a high standard and then hallmarked. All the jewellery insilver above 7.75 gram Pandora charms. gold 1 gram and platinum above 0.5 gram in weight should behallmarked.After the hallmarking process the item will be stone set (if necessary) and given a final polish.(Based on pandora bracelets FocusMagazine)
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