Swarovski has recently developed a potentially exciting new series of plug-ins to help jewellers add Swarovski crystals (and other gem stones of all sorts) to their designs. One plug-in is for Rhino, the other is for Adobe Illustrator. They call it Ennoble.io.

I guess Adobe just couldn’t help itself— for years they’ve been compelled to try to be all things to all people. According to the folks over at

Introducing my first video tutorial! This one provides a sampler of the Adobe Illustrator for Technical Jewellery Drawing training we offer here as a CAD masterclass at CAD Jewellery Skills:

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.

A commercial illustrator named Richard Wilkinson has found a way to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to stunning effect for jewellery illustration and digital painting. Each example makes for