An excellent addition to any jeweler's digital toolbox

T-Splines gives jewelry designers basic tools to create and modify custom-looking, freeform designs in a 3D CAD format that can be shared digitally with customers across the globe, mass produced, and easily altered.

Rhino has long been a popular tool among jewelers for its robust, precise NURBS modeling tools. Third-party Rhino jewelry plugins make jewelry design even easier through introducing wizards, automated gem setting and other features targeted directly at jewelry designers.

T-Splines did an excellent job at keeping the surface as simple as possible while I was modeling my organic ring design. By using T-Splines’ powerful set of tools, the project yielded the fewest possible control points, keeping the geometry easy to read and edit. T-Splines fills the need for free form modeling tools in Rhino.
Ricardo Amaral, Modellistica

However, true freeform jewelry creation is beyond the grasp of even these tools. T-Splines allows you to create organic, fluid jewelry designs in standard CAD file formats. Traditionally, these types of jewelry items were more easily created by hand.

NURBS jewelry is by necessity created in either a piecewise fashion or by combining parts into an uneditable polysurface. T-Splines introduces the ability to build a smooth and continuous surface that can be easily edited to address aesthetic, design and fabrication considerations.

Case studies & tutorials

Modellistica cut modeling time in half by using T-Splines to create free-form jewelry. Read more...

This tutorial takes you step by step through the creation of an intricate jewelry piece. Read more...

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