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.
3Design >>
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.
MATRIX >>
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 distinguishing what is real from what is computer generated.

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