Computer aided design and technology courses

Adobe Illustrator for Technical Drawing >>: The Adobe Illustrator for Technical Drawing course is exclusive to H3-D and Holts Academy, taking many elements from Adobe's standard Illustrator course and tailoring them to a jewellery designer’s needs.
Adobe Photoshop for Digital Photography >>: You will learn photo editing and cropping techniques to enhance the use of your jewellery images in print and on the web.
Computer Aided Design -Rhino Stage 1 >>: Rhino is a general product design CAD program adopted by many different areas. At the Academy, it is taught alongside specialised jewellery plug-ins.
Computer Aided Design -Rhino Stage 2 >>: Rhino is a general product design CAD program adopted by many different areas. At the Academy, it is taught alongside specialised jewellery plug-ins.
Computer Aided Design - Rhino Stage 3 >>: Rather than following a set format, this single day course provides the students with a series of challenges collected from some of the most difficult modelling dilemmas one could face in the professional worksplace.
3Design - Stage 1 >>: This course offers an introduction to a very different approach to modelling, involving building and repeatedly revising shapes and combining them with a host of jewellery-specific commands such as pave and shank builders.
3Design - Stage 2 >>: Exploring more advanced tools, this course guides you through more complex design scenarios in preparing your work for production.
ArtCAM Jewelsmith - Stage 1 >>: ArtCAM offers some of the most powerful surface sculpting tools available, making it ideal for figurative relief work.
ArtCAM Jewelsmith - Stage 2 >>: ArtCAM offers some of the most powerful surface sculpting tools available, making it ideal for figurative relief work.
MATRIX - Intensive >>: In addition to offering all the advantages of Rhino, Matrix has a whole series of additional builders and specialty tools for making all the repetitive and painstaking tasks of jewellery design (such as pave and prong settings) fast and easy.
CAD Rendering with Rhino and V-Ray >>: One look at the images which can be quickly generated by this software and your customers will have trouble telling the real from the computer generated.
CAD Sculpting with ClayTrix >>: ClayTrix is the first haptic sculpture system designed for the jewellery and metalsmithing industries. It offers an affordable toolset focused on the needs of sculptors working with Rapid Prototyping
JewelCAD >>: JewelCAD was one of the first of the CAD software companies to focus specifically on CAD design for jewellery and rapid prototyping, and is still a popular choice for manufacturing, especially in the Far East.
Digital Photography for Jewellery - Basic >>: Split over three days with one day spent at a photographic studio you will learn a number of techniques to ensure your images and knowledge of using a digital camera for jewellery photography enhances your products.
Digital Photography for Jewellery - Intermediate >>: Our intermediate course will extend your ability to photograph jewellery and get increasingly professional results, learning your camera’s functions inside out.