I've recently bought a jewelry related CAD program. This is the result of the first thing I've finished with it. Just trying to figure out the program and all of that, so just went with something simple. Added a bit of decoration to the sides to make it a little more interesting than just a channel and that's it.

It is, however, essentially fully finished. There are seats cut for the gems. I mostly did that to see how it would work. My guess is that for a channel setting application, such as this, that really serves mostly for placement. The bottom of the channel will definitely need to be recut if I ever had it milled out, otherwise the stones won't fit. I could probably cut it in the program so the machine makes it correctly, but as I said. I'm trying to figure things out and I'm happy to have done this.

The rendering software it uses has been a little tricky. It's difficult to navigate in and it's going to take some more tweaking to find the best settings. Can't do much about the textures, got to use what they have. Once I started tweaking the ray-tracing and lighting, things got better. Small diamonds don't seem to show up well (these would be 2mm stones), so I went with sapphires. But I'm happy with the way the render came out.

For my first real attempt at anything with a program I don't know well, I'm pretty happy with it. I'm tempted to have it milled simply because it's the first piece I've done for CAD/CAM application