CrossGems – Rhino 7 plugin for Jewelry Design
The complete CAD toolset for jewelry design & manufacturing. CrossGEMS is built on top of Rhino, the most popular jewelry software worldwide. In addition, all tools are completely integrated with Grasshopper. It’s defined by easy-to-use jewelry builders as well as an interactive gallery of parts, prepared to be your most valuable resource. Speed up your whole process and increase your productivity using advanced 3D tools with unlimited possibilities. Let Your Designs Sparkle!
ADVANCED JEWELRY BUILDERS
Create your designs from scratch, or start from interactive gallery parts. Each Jewelry Tool in Panther offers unique options for every detail of your design. Explore your Creativity!
RING BUILDERS
Create ring bands, split shanks, cathedrals, bypass rings, crossover bands, signet rings, eternity rings, bombe rings…and more…using easy to use ring builders.
ACCURATE STONE SETTING TOOLS
A variety of gem tools are available to create settings for any stone: Heads, Bezels, Claws, Halos, Under Bezels, Calottes, micro clusters, etc. With CrossGems you can rely on precision stone setting without compromising your design needs.
Gem Library
Explore a library of the most popular gem cuts, including: briolette, drops, rose, half moon, flower…& more. Explore new gem shapes with the most precious gem studios available in a Rhino Jewelry program.
Automatic Pave
The most advanced Pave tool supports surfaces & Mesh objects for gems placement. Each step of the design is saved, enabling you to make any further adjustments and updating all the steps saved in real time. This is a huge time saving creating or changing your designs.
PARTS LIBRARY
Start your design from scratch, or using a design from the library where sample parts are available. Once you have customized you design, you can save your custom part in the library.
JALI PATTERNS
The Jali tool in CrossGems allows you to decorate your designs by creating 3D patterns from a library of styles which you can easily add to. Apply patterns on any surface, and if you change the pattern or surface & it updates dynamically.
LOGICAL MODELING
With all the components of your design connected, it allows you to easily make any changes. Design history is automatic, so every part of your piece is editable.
PATTERN LIBRARY
Patterns are the fastest way to create high volume jewelry parts with a small amount of metal. Either using patterns from the library or adding your own ones, there are several controls to adjust them on your designs.
COMPONENT BASED DESIGNER BUILDER
CrossGems is built on top of Rhino 7 & Grasshopper. Each step of the design is saved, and you are able to make adjustments in real time. Boolean operations are completely editable at any stage of your design. This is a huge time saver when changing designs.
SMART BOOLEAN’S
Now you can make changes to your design over and over again, the boolean operations are editable & will update automatically. Need to change the size of gems in a channel, and increase the channel width? With Smart Booleans it’s no problem!
RENDERING
Rendering Gems is via a Raytraced Display Mode, and is optimized for Jewelry. Rendering is available through both CPU & your graphics card, which ensures the best performance from your machine . Welcome to real time rendering!
THE CROSSGEMS INTERFACE
Don’t be fooled by CrossGem’s minimal Interface, because under the skin is a powerful set of Jewelry Tools & Builders, ensuring that you speed through your 3D jewelry modeling.
THE RHINO INTERFACE
Unlike some other jewelry plugin’s for Rhino, we don’t force you to use our interface. If you are a Rhino 7 user, you can use all of our tools from the Rhino menu, or via the command line. No need to learn another interface. The choice is yours.
GRASSHOPPER INTEGRATION
All of the CrossGems tools are available as Grasshopper plugins for Rhino 7, so you can extend the functionality of your designs by creating custom Grasshopper definitions. Now you can create your own custom designs using CrossGems tools integrated with Grasshopper.
