3Design has just released its version 13 update, with several new tools for handling pave, clusters, and trellis settings.

Today we celebrate not only the holiday season, but the close of our 9th year of existence. I would like to take a moment to thank all of the loyal readers of this blog, and talk about some of the exciting changes we've been making over the past few months, as well as what the new year will bring.

Recently David Law posted on his Linkedin Pulse blog a nice case study of using 3Design CAD to develop a personal bespoke design for a customer’s perfect proposal. What’s

Parametric modelling. Some people love it, some people get frustrated using it. But what exactly is it? After a discussion with a colleague a few months ago,

We’re on a roll with video tutorials, so I’m going to keep going. This one’s a sampler for the 3Design CAD training masterclasses we offer at CAD Jewellery

I have compiled a summary of some popular jewellery CAD software combinations for helping with 3D sculpture and texturing, pixel to vector conversion, and image post production.

  Recently, we’ve started adding both T-Splines and 3Shaper to our computer courses here at CAD Jewellery Skills. This means I’ve been spending a lot of time

On this and subsequent articles in my FAQ series, I will break down the most commonly asked questions from my own particular fields of expertise. For part 1, we’ll start off with the most common question of them all: "Which Jewellery CAD software should I learn?"

Why does there need to be so many different proprietary file formats among CAD software packages?