I see alot of guy's who join this site are jewelry makers, do they use CNC machines?

I have seen some nice little CNC that jewlers use but is seems they are spacifically designed for engraving

Check out this site I know it says handcrafted but a link from a machine tool site lead me hear so I know better, beautiful work tho

http://members.rennlist.com/statmandesigns/CelticKnots.html

boxwood

OOh man they are beautiful rings!

I am new to your forum. My name is Jeff Dunnington. One of my clients told me about your great site. I have been a Designer/Jeweler for 31 years and playing with a Roland MDX-15 for 3 years. I now sell this machine and a simple cad cam solution to the jewelry industry.

I am exploring other CAD-CAM programs to supplement my system and my new machine the JWX-10. Looks like the resources of your board will be invaluable. Hope I will be able to contribute to your forum and if there is any help anybody needs in reference to jewelry or any of the mills made by Roland please let me know.

Please take a look at my website http://www.3dwaxmill.com any input would be appreciated.

That is Dan Statmans site. He made all his own cnc machines and uses turbocnc to control them.

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Check out this site I know it says handcrafted but a link from a machine tool site lead me hear so I know better, beautiful work tho

http://members.rennlist.com/statmandesigns/CelticKnots.html

boxwood

Paul

Yes there is a lot of CNC in the Jewelry Industry. I use a benchman 2500 39k spindle.
design in solidworks. the higher End of jewelry manufacturing is the swiss Watch industry. they have machine that will blow your mind and any budget.

Mbair

Made this using Artcam Jewelsmith, Rhino and a CNC machine

http://www.3dcadjewelry.com/phpbb/download.php?id=2239&t=1&f=8&sid=b32b3be85f9c32f3f934a136ef92b992http://www.3dcadjewelry.com/phpbb/download.php?id=2240&f=8&sid=b32b3be85f9c32f3f934a136ef92b992

Well, the 3D printers certainly get used to make models that get used for casting. Milling precious metals has got to be frowned upon due to the material lost as chips which are difficult to recover uncontaminated and there's significant limits to what the milling process can do.

3D printing is cheap and fast, and relatively straightforward, with a great deal of detail and can make surfaces that would be impossible to do with milling. No tool changes necessary! No complicated questions of how the toolpath's gonna do work. Of course you end up with a prototype made out of 3D printer medium which isn't usually an art project in itself, it's a casting prototype.

IIRC some 3D printers are made to print out in wax that can be burned out in standard investment casting, which is pretty awesome. Plastic models would have to have a silicone mold step to make a wax copy, which couldn't support complex internal surfaces- you'd not be able to remove the plastic model nor the wax model from the silicone mold. Wax going direct to investment casting, that has essentially limitless capabilities.