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Making gold nugget pattern on ring top
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Hello, I am trying to get a nugget ring look applied to a ring top and was wondering if there is an easy way to achieve this?I already have a solid that is capped in the shape that I want but there…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by pat schmidt Oct 6, 2012.
Ring Wizard thickness??
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When making a ring and applying thickness to the 12 o'clock position I can't seem to get it to go past .98 in thickness. I would like to be able to make the wall thickness a bit thicker in many…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Rod Stark Oct 5, 2012.
Web3d How to?
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I have a client that wants to see the revolving ring. I've made the Web3d files and saved them now how do I make it work so that she can see it?RodContinue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Rod Stark Jan 8, 2012.
Ring wizard ring model hollow?
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I made a ring with the wizard and applied flow on srf, extrude, then Boolean to make a Channel for stones. After Boolean I found the ring was a shell. Is there a way to have the modelSolid or is…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Tariq Abdul Rauf Dec 29, 2011.
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pat schmidt replied to Rod Stark's discussion Making gold nugget pattern on ring top
"the other thing is how fast do you work ...if you work fast you probably could cut the nug by hand faster then designing it, layout and going back over it to tweek it....sometimes I'ts a combination of milling to get the 'base' then…"
pat schmidt replied to Rod Stark's discussion Making gold nugget pattern on ring top
"either way will work...you might have to go back at it a little even after the milling to clean it up or make it a little better"
Rod Stark replied to Rod Stark's discussion Making gold nugget pattern on ring top
"I thought of that but if I can have it done by casting I can make more money on other things while that's getting done....2 for 1.
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pat schmidt replied to Rod Stark's discussion Making gold nugget pattern on ring top
"another way to do it fast is to mill the piece with no nug texture and then carve the nuggets in the wax by hand using a ball burr"
Rod Stark replied to Rod Stark's discussion Making gold nugget pattern on ring top
"Well that was pretty easy....Why didn't I think of that....*smile
Thanks Pat.
It seems that I have a nugget ring come up every now and then...I know what you mean...at least this way makes it alot easier.
Rod"
pat schmidt replied to Rod Stark's discussion Making gold nugget pattern on ring top
"I hope the nugs aren't coming back.....
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pat schmidt replied to Rod Stark's discussion Making gold nugget pattern on ring top
"couple ways to do it ..if you want to try this way copy the nugget or look one up on the internet you like...save the jpg into your texture folder and then use texture…"
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Making gold nugget pattern on ring top
Hello, I am trying to get a nugget ring look applied to a ring top and was wondering if there is an easy way to achieve this?I already have a solid that is capped in the shape that I want but there is no 3d texture for a nugget effect. I have played with applying other effects to it but I'm not sure how to go about making a texture of nugget. Thanks in advance,RodSee More
Rod Stark replied to Rod Stark's discussion Ring Wizard thickness??
"Thank you Sr Pages, after thinking about what you said and looking at the original model I understand. The model I was trying to transform had a thinner place on it so I couldn't make it any thicker.
Rod"
Enric del Molino Pages replied to Rod Stark's discussion Ring Wizard thickness??
"Hello Rod,
Probably Ring wizard is locking thickness to .98 mm because you ring width or height is 2 mm so is mathematically impossible apply a thickness bigger than profile's width or height.
If…"
Rod Stark posted a discussion
Ring Wizard thickness??
When making a ring and applying thickness to the 12 o'clock position I can't seem to get it to go past .98 in thickness. I would like to be able to make the wall thickness a bit thicker in many instances but there is some limiting factor there. Is there a way to get around that? What I am trying to do is to save a bit of weight on the ring. I could do this by transferring the file into Rhino and do a Boolean but if this function would let me make whatever thickness I wanted in the wizard it…See More
Rod Stark replied to Rod Stark's discussion Web3d How to?
"OK Thank you Tariq, I read the other forum topic and got it done.
Rod"
Tariq Abdul Rauf replied to Rod Stark's discussion Web3d How to?
"Put all files and folders created by Web3d in one foler and send it to the costomer
for more details read this:
http://www.myrhinogold.com/forum/topics/3d-web-render?xg_source=activity"
Rod Stark posted a discussion
Web3d How to?
I have a client that wants to see the revolving ring. I've made the Web3d files and saved them now how do I make it work so that she can see it?RodSee More
Tariq Abdul Rauf replied to Rod Stark's discussion Ring wizard ring model hollow?
"sometimes if the offset dosen't work with soled option, just offset surface with the desier distance and delete the orignal one and close the open gaps betwen the surface and adges using " surface from 2,3,4 edge-curves."
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- At 5:29pm on December 27, 2011,
Raffi said… Hi Rod
you are welcome to the group merry Christmas and happy holidays
Raffi
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