Precious CAD (www.preciousjewelcad.com) applies software
technology to the art of jewel designing. Precious CAD helps in
translating human creativity and imagination into a concrete and precise
form by adopting many skillful and innovative techniques through the medium of
CAD. Precious CAD helps in maintaining precision without wasting time on it
doing manually.
Precious CAD has been designed to cater to the needs of
the non-technical artists. It has a set of simple and easy to use features with
a low learning curve and uses the full capabilities . An interactive wizard
helps one to get moving quickly. Mouse based tools on operations enables one
to easily and smoothly achieve the objectives. Context sensitive popup menus
keeps one from getting lost. And finally, customizable toolbars, dialog box
free data entry design, command window, macros and scripts etc enable the user
to explore their creativity to their limits.
Precious CAD has been
developed in C++ with the background graphics engine being the ACIS Solid
Modeler licensed from Spatial Corp. USA. The entire program uses solid modeling
techniques with a 10e-6 precision. Under the works is a dynamic deformable
modeler, being designed specifically for the jewel artist, that will enable
the user to manipulate the solid models just as a potter manipulates wet clay.
The end result would be an extremely fast, powerful and robust CAD
program.