Chris Botha

Its a hinge section for a hollow bangle that is spring loaded.. this one was a dare from this reference image

Thanks.. here is another one for the jewelers.. mostly rhino but refined in 3dcoat. the 3B file is on my grabcad channel. You may find usage http://grabcad.com/library/hinged-bangle-construct-demo

another WIP.. a ring for a AquaMarine design for a friend.. this is a bit different to my usual stuff.. mostly Rhino, and then CURVES tool in 3dcoat and some blending.

may stick to jewelery..

Hey all, I am stuck a bit with the curve tool. is there an option to make it work "normal" to object its being arrayed on? works great except for that surface normal thing and I am quite willing to believe its a case of RTFM If a picture is worth a thousand words then I suppose a video is worth a million? this is what I get (need to tweak rotation on each node) will post what I am after after it uploads in next post. (unless answered first) and this is what I am trying to achieve.. pretty sure its just radio dial or something I am missing?

those parts were all made in Rhinoceros and [Merged] I have also been playing with heightmaps just recently to add details and some background on the process of rhino to 3dcoat and back the skull in this video, which unfortunately didn't feature sound, my camtasia has been playing silly buggers http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=477937642272350 those art bitmaps images more on that on my facebook page http://www.facebook.com/DigitalJeweller

renders and still from that one loaned the flames from my biker bell project.. wish I had 3dcoat back in those days. http://digital-jeweller.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/biker-guardian-bell.html

think I am finally getting the hang of this.. will machine this ring for myself

developed it a tad more.. ehh just couldn't leave it alone.. i was slammed on because it had no flowers.. lol! and a clip of the import

not sure how to insert youtube clips, my machine kept crashing so lost a bit of this. happy to take any pointers on how to make the details im adding more distinct?

My First attempt at a "sculpt" in 3dcoat .. be nice! Sculpting is SO not my thing.. but i did find after a half hour, engraving and driving a tablet pen are actually distant cousins, I "could" develop the skill i suppose, but I don't have clients for this outlandish type of stuff.. anyways.. 90% of the base is all tslines models from the Matrix library, slapped together with SPLOP over a drape. projected a curve, some gems and beads then off to 3dcoat.. no special settings, just import, pick up pen and GO.. all up i estimate 40 to 45 minutes work.. but dont quote me, I was trying to record and kept crashing rhino so would need to restart recording.. eventually gave up.. If i do another i will setup as tripod.. 3dcoat EATS ram.. The BIGGEST advantage to doing this in 3dCoat imo so far has been that you dont constantly need to remesh the damn thing.. voxels truly are a completely different beast, chalk and cheese to emulated voxels that other sculpting apps I have tried offer.. but you pay for it in CPU cycles.. I was going for "Crown and Brains" but my brains look a tad very Acanthus scroll.. wonder which recent skill I learned that I stole that from.. anyway.. the model will go onto GrabCad later

This is for rendering only so I leave it as OBJ tho technically since my CAM applications all work with meshes (rhinocam/deskproto) i could continue my process directly.

Hey all, my name is Chris Botha, I am a jeweller, I use cad (Matrix, Rhino, Tsplines etc etc) and also do my own machining . I have been looking at 3dcoat because Colin Creed a friend of mine uses it. I am primarily interested in the transition from OBJ to Voxel and back for its instant boolean and "blend" options prior to rednering, we bought one student licence so far to test the waters, and if it works out we will buy two full ones for work. this is what I do with it for now. from this sharp hard nurbs to 3dcoat for InstaBlend then rendering for more info about me, see Digital-Jeweller / Jewellery Art. http://www.facebook.com/DigitalJeweller http://digital-jeweller.blogspot.com.au http://www.hollowaydiamonds.com.au ​hope to learn and share with you