Jewellery Focus Article – Casting: Are Manufacturers Matching the Retailers into the Future?
9 December, 2019

Every so often, it is good to hear the counterpoint opinion on jewellery CAD, especially from those who have the expertise to know what they're talking about. Here is a critical opinion of CAD training from Mike Hurst of Jewellery Casting Scotland, with my opinions offered after.

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The Jeweller Magazine Article – It’s a CAD World – The Current State of Jewellery CAD in the UK
7 October, 2019

A little over a year ago, I had an interview with the Jeweller Magazine about public perceptions of Jewellery CAD in the UK. I'm happy to say at long last I have permission to share that article with you.

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Professional Jeweller Article – How Tech is Redefining Manufacturing, and the Goldsmiths Centre Technology Day
13 June, 2016

Professional Jeweller has published an article about CAD/CAM and its effect on jewellery manufacturing. While it’s mostly an advertorial, it does discuss GVUK Design‘s Technology Day regularly

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Avi Reichental’s TED Talk About the Future of 3D Printing
10 June, 2015

This fantastic lecture comes courtesy of a former student and author of the jewelleryweekly.com blog. (Thank you, Anissa!) President and CEO of 3D Systems Avi Reichental has presented quite

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Jewellery Focus Soapbox Article – Here’s What CAD Has Already Done To the Jewellery Industry
8 June, 2015

Back in March, I wrote a short piece for Jewellery Focus‘ Soapbox column. It was drafted in response to a previous article they had written about how

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A Replacement For the STL File Format? – 3MF Consortium Introduces a New 3D Printing File Format
8 May, 2015

Over the past week a consortium of major players in 3D printing and software development (including Dassault Systèmes S.A., FIT AG/netfabb GmbH, Microsoft Corporation, HP, Shapeways, Inc., SLM Solutions Group AG, and Autodesk Inc.) have

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Argos is Producing Custom Jewellery With CAD/CAM???
14 April, 2015

It’s a bit of a wild decision, but I have to give credit to the order-by-catalogue shopping outlet Argos for being brave enough to try something new and on-trend.

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New British Pound Coin Design in ArtCAM Pro
18 March, 2015

The Royal Mint has announced a new design choice for the UK’s Pound coin to enter circulation in 2017. The design is based on the winning design entry from

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The World Economic Forum’s Top 10 Emergent Technologies for 2015
5 March, 2015

The World Economic Forum has just published an interesting list of their predictions for the top 10 most prominent emergent technologies for this year. Of course, 3D

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3D Inking and GE Electronics
14 November, 2014

On the recent GE Looking Ahead posting in the Economist online, they discuss a technology called 3D Inking. It is similar to 3D printing, except that what is being printed

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