CAD DESIGN I                                           105 Hours

Requirements: completion of Cad Design Intro

Apply your basic knowledge of CAD principles and build up on your CAD skills with the use and practice of multiple commands and precision modeling tools.

Learn to design by using basic and intermediate level CAD commands.

You will be guided to build more than 50 Jewelry designs with the use of CAD software.

Use of intermediate and advanced level commands for the creation of jewelry designs

The instruction and introduction of commands will be delivered in an instruction/practice sequence.

You will be introduced to designing and editing tools to learn, apply and practice the CAD jewelry design techniques explained by building prescribed models.

These exercises will get you proficient with CAD designing from day one and will challenge and educate with real jewelry design projects performed by the student, with step by step directions and the help of your instructor.

Course Description

Review of basic commands

Detailed explanation of intermediate and advanced level computer design commands

Viewport views, object display

Use of control points

Modeling aids, history, Object snaps, selection of objects, units and measuring

Text manipulation in curves and surfaces

Boolean commands

Join, explode, trim, split

Document properties, grids, linetypes

Analysis, angle, distance, mapping

Rendering