Rhino for Jewellery Design - Basic

Learn the Basics of Rhino and Rapid Prototyping

Rhino is a general product design CAD program originally designed for the marine industry, but since adopted by many different areas of product design such as furniture, footwear, electronics, and of course jewellery design.

It offers more functionality than any one specialty will ever use, and its product design roots make it ideal for designing complex assemblies.

Each design specialty has made extensions (or plug-ins) for Rhino to make their jobs easier.  In this course, Rhino will be taught alongside the plug-ins Flamingo (an easy to use rendering tool for making photrealistic images from models) and RhinoJewel (a basic jeweller's toolbox and stone library).

One of the following courses, or equivalent experience, is required: Begin at the Bench, The Art of jewellery Design or Wonders of Wax

Skills Gained:

You will learn:

  • How to model and render jewellery designs in 3D CAD.
  • Solutions to common design scenarios, such as prong settings, eternity bands abnd pave.
  • How to present your designs to clients with rendering tools and screen shots.
  • How to export your model to a rapid prototyping machine and produce your design in wax
Certification:

Holts Academy of Jewellery Completion Certificate

Price:

£475 or £430 for those in the trade

Lecturers:
Location:

Holts Academy of Jewellery

Availability:

Course dates:

  • 22nd January - 12th February 2009 (Thu x4)
  • 5th March - 26th March 2009 (Thu x4)
  • 3rdApril - 24th April 2009 (Fri x4)
  • 7th May - 28th May 2009 (Thu x4)
  • 11th June - 2nd July 2009 (Thu x4)
  • 11th September - 2nd October 2009 (Fri x4)
  • 6th November - 27th November 2009 (Fri x4)
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  • Classes run 10:00 - 17:00