Speed Demo

How Long Does It Take You Redesign a Ring Twice?

Here’s a typical scenario. You have a client who is looking for a custom ring, but isn’t quite sure about what he is looking for. So you start by showing him your library of ring designs to see what strikes him. You come across this ring, which he likes. It’s a size 7 with a three-stone trellis and six stones along each side.

But he wants to make some changes to the design. He needs two rings, size 5 and size 12. For the size 5 ring, he would like five stones along each side, and for the size 12 ring, seven stones.

Now using any other jewelry CAD program, you would have to basically build each ring from scratch. But not so with Monarch Fine Jewelry Design. With our exclusive built-in History Tree functionality, you can take the original size 7 ring and quickly make the changes to create both rings. Simply open your design, open the History Tree functionality, and start making changes.

First the shank. Jump to that point in the History Tree functionality and enter your new value. Monarch takes you through the rest of the ring so that you can adjust all the other elements in your design. Unlike other programs, the computer helps you at each step to ensure that you keep the integrity of your 3D design. This is vital since one small mistake and you will not be able to create a physical model from your design.

Once you have sized the ring and readjusted the elements, you can now change the number of stones. Add or remove stones easily keeping the exact gap size. Or change the gap size uniformly, and Monarch will automatically make the necessary adjustments.

Now unless you have used computer design programs before, it is hard to imagine the advantage that Monarch has over other programs. So let’s put it this way. To make the necessary changes, it took the designer in this demo about six and a half minutes to complete both rings (note the time stamp on each change). And all of that with zero distortion from the original design.

With other design programs, you would have to essentially build both rings from scratch, starting with a size 5 shank and a size 12 shank, and adding each element individually. This could take hours or days for each ring, taking up a lot of your time.

Simply put, if you are not using Monarch, it will take you longer to learn and longer to model.