So Michael Gibson one of the guys who help start writing Rhino is working on some CAD software that is like Rhino.It’s really Rhino like, limited, but easier. The snaps are very intuitive. It reads 3DM and IGES and outputs 3DM, IGES, STL, 3DS and OBJ.

I did this ring from checking out the site to install to saving in about hour. You just use it. I did steal the gem from Matrix. But diamond models are out there for free.

Sure it’s very limited, but did I say it’s free? This is first software I have seen that is free and really can be used by people to make jewelry with no investment at all.

It’s very exciting to me because see a lot of growth in CAD-CAM for jewelry coming from people who first play around with 3D as a hobby. I could say so much about this, but I am not sure this forum is the place.

It’s called MoI (Moment of Inspiration): http://moi3d.com/index.htm

Here is the 3DM file: moi_ring_test.zip

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I cheated and rendered this in matrix:

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