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Micro Pave

I am now going to create the vectors for the micro pave section of the ring. Again I am only going to do one quarter of the ring because I will mirror the other sections into place. This means one center diamond with eight diamonds on the side. I will begin by offsetting the top ring rail to the right by .6mm which will define our outside wall. We continue to offset the resulting lines as we defined in the specifications above. That is .25mm for the next wall, ( I will also offset .65mm twice here to give me a center line) this equals the 1.3mm for the diamond which includes the required spacing, and lastly another .25mm for the other inner wall. These lines will serve as guides to help layout the diamonds.

I will then make the first center diamond and place it into place. This will be followed by copy and pasting, then moving the remaining diamonds into position. I will then create the micro pave prong and position it where it belongs. I will do this by zooming in to judge the placement. I will then copy and paste, (Control  C & Control V), the remaining beads into position. You must remember the accuracy is incredible and far superior to any work performed by hand. ArtCam allows you to work in this fashion and achieve outstanding results in very short order. I will then define the shadow box around the diamonds and subtract that area .5mm from the surface of the ring. I will then raise the beads .6mm with a 50 degree dome added. The rest is mirroring the ring to complete it. 

 Rendering the Ring

In this final section I will create the gemstone vectors from the model and then create the gemstones to produce a rendering. This is done by selecting the vectors in the 2D view that represent the gemstones and having ArtCam calculate the stones sizes from the vectors. I will then select all the new gemstone vectors and quickly create the gems from there.