Paul Krush

So I posted those 3D jewelry models last month. To me the surprises were:

• There were a lot of professionals against me putting out free models. They thought it was dumb and threatened them in different ways.
• The number of models downloaded (132,300 so far and still over 3000 a day after 5 weeks).
• I’ve had a large number of people tell me they would never use a model downloaded, but were looking at them to be inspired to help them model in Matrix/Rhino better.
• Another interesting thing to me is to see what people choose to download the most and least. I would love to recursively evolve models from the top downloaded files.

It’s a surprise that no one told me it was a bad idea to post models that are not perfect for making jewelry. There are some real issues in this group of models. Some have channels too thin and prongs to close or too small. A lot of setters work in different ways, so automatically some models are wrong for them. One of the reasons I got out of this is I never formed a very good relationship with a setting to get into a grove of designing “correctly”. Basically, all models can’t fit every application. Most people are not very good at this, so our medium level work looks awesome to a lot of people out there.

Am I a visionary or a flake? I would say both. I don’t think you can be a visionary without being flaky. The unreasonable man is the one that makes the progress. Visionaries do and flakes talk. I do a lot of both.

It’s hard for me to write a blog on a regular basis. I have to get use to this format. I don’t want to put out mediocre information or ideas that I have not fully developed, but really this is what a blog is. I am always learning and can only make my best guess. What is most interesting for me is to write about subjects that I don’t know, so I am going to be wrong in this blog on a regular basis.

Feel free to email me. A lot of people do. The variety of people that read this blog is quite interesting to me. I’m in touch with a wide range of people involved with CAD/CAM for jewelry and I might be able to help you. If you are interested in having CAD, CAM, and or mass customization for jewelry software written please let me know and I can help you.