Abstract:
In the conventional method for design and production in jewellery industry, it is difficult to create new designs due to lack of modern technology and intelligent equipment and software. The development of a jewellery design system is presented for a modern ornament industry by adopting new technologies and modern equipment in CAD/CAM. The technique is verified by the examples of actual jewellery design by the system and then producing it by lost wax investment casting method using wax pattern created by a rapid prototyping system instead of the traditional method of mould injection. This CAD based system of development of modern jewellery design offers advantages of flexibility in creating more variety of design and the ability to produce intricate shape conveniently. The work demonstrates the application of CAD/CAM tools and rapid prototyping as the most powerful tools in jewellery design and production.
Key words:
CAD Jewellery design Rapid prototyping
* Selected from Proceedings
of International Symposium of Advanced Manufacturing
Technology (ISAMT'2001); revised manuscript July 20, 2002
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