3Design Jewelry CAD Software vs. Altair Inspire

If you want a CAD program for jewelry that is easier to use than Matrix, this is it. It has allowed me to have a custom jewelry business. I use it to design all of my custom jewelry jobs. If it can be cast, 3Design Jewelry CAD Software will work for you.

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This software is incredibly intuitive and really does provide a great finished product. The software runs relatively quickly and will usually throw an error right away, which is a nice feature. I didn't use the geometry editing parts of the software, but it looks promising to be able to edit files directly in the program.

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• The tools make it easy to do many specialized things.
• It is easy to output STL files.
• It has easy to use controls.

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• Defining the actuators, pin joints, sliding joints is very easy.
• Defining a motion sequence is straightforward.
• The UI tends to make you follow a sequence of steps to be successful in doing a motion simulation and finite element analysis study on a design.
• The motion simulation results are automatically transferred to the FEA solver.

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• The renderings are terrible.
• The program bogs down if you are doing something with more than 100 stones.
• In my opinion, the support is next to nothing unless you pay for it.
• In my experience, they always hassle you to upgrade.

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• I think the tools to create CAD are a bit difficult to use. Consequently, it is now easier to develop the part in other software, which is bad since we need to use more than one tool at a time.

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I will be upgrading very soon

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In my opinion, if you pay for the support, it is great. Otherwise, I feel like they always say the problem is user error and try to get you to purchase the support.

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When I needed clarification on how do use a feature or best way to define the constraints for a design problem, the response was quick and solved my needs.

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3Design Jewelry CAD Software had a class on how to use the program that was close to me. Matrix did not have any classes at all at the time. Matrix is also much more difficult to learn than 3Design Jewelry CAD Software. 3Design Jewelry CAD Software is a little less expensive than Matrix, but more expensive than all of the other programs that aren't as good.

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Working Model, MathCad, Dynamic Designer, Algor, and Mathlab had poor UI's and poor ways to define actuator and motor motion profiles. The force results and vectors were not easy to input into the FEA software. SOLIDWORKS Motion does not have an excellent way to define a linear actuator or its motion profile. Altair provides a UI that guides you through defining your linear actuator or motor's motion profile quickly.

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• 3Design Jewelry CAD Software has allowed me to have a custom jewelry business and I could not create custom jewelry without it!

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• In my personal opinion, we think that this product does not have any negative aspect that makes us feel very uncomfortable.

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