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Beginner or experienced, there is necessarily a program that will meet your needs and your level of expertise. We’ll help you to find the software you need with our Top 16 of the best jewelry design software.
Whatever you’re planning to create, you’ll have to use a 3D CAD design software to make a 3D file. You may be a beginner or experienced, a professional jeweler, an artist or a hobbyist. Whoever you are, there is definitely a program that will meet your needs and help you to design your object. To create jewelry, the process is the same, you need to find jewelry CAD software to shape accurate models, with a lot of CAD tools.
Do you want to create organic shapes? You would like to 3D print a geometrical jewel? Anything is possible, and we are sure that there is a program for you out there, that will help you design perfectly your 3D jewelry!
In this list, you’ll find some software totally created to design jewelry. Other ones are traditional 3D modeling or sculpting software, which can also help you to create impressive designs for your jewelry.
Zbrush is a digital sculpting tool, allowing to model, paint, and texture the object that you’re planning to 3D print. You can obtain high-resolution models with this one. ZBrush uses “3D pixels” technology. Each pixel is called “pixol” and contains information on depth, orientation, material, and color value.
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Zbrush is used by many jewelry designers as it is a good software to create detailed designs for jewelry or fashion accessories. ZBrush is a great solution if you want to create intricate models, it allows you to sculpt anything you want and add a lot of details, as gemstones for example. It is ideal to work on the texture and surfaces of your 3D model.
With ZBrush, you’re free and can be as creative as you want. You can give life to any of your ideas but you need to have a little experience with 3D modeling before using it for your jewelry designs.
Zbrush has a partnership with Sculpteo allowing you to directly export your 3D models and print them thanks to our online 3D printing service. It cannot be easier!
Blender is free software. This open-source 3D modeling software is developed by Blender Foundation. Blender has a mesh-based direct modeling system, not a parametric one. A lot of tutorials are available to help users, but as this 3D modeling software is a little bit advanced, it will not really suit beginners. This software is more interesting for artistic use, and thus, it’s quite relevant to create 3D jewelry.
You need to know the basic functionalities of Blender before using it. If you are interested in using Blender, check out our Blender tutorial which will help you model, export, and correct your 3D design to 3D print it.
Sketchup is developed by Trimble and can be used by anyone. It’s a free and popular software for 3D printing. It is also very useful for beginners, who don’t have a lot of experience with 3D modeling software. As Sketchup is particularly useful to design geometrical models, it can be relevant to use this software if you want to create geometrical jewelry.
If you’re new with 3D modeling and you want to use Sketchup, take a look at our Sketchup tutorial that will give you good beginners tips to use it for 3D printing.
Moment of Inspiration (also known as MoI), it is a little bit similar to Rhino but way cheaper. It has fewer functionalities and plugins, but you have all the basic tools to design your jewelry. This software already has a user base involved in jewelry design. MoI is made for artists and designers, but it can be really interesting to use it to create jewelry.
This CAD software is a good solution if you are just getting started with jewelry design!
3Shaper is a sculpting and free-form modeler. It can be used as a module in 3Design if you take the professional version, but can also be used alone, in its stand-alone version. 3Shaper allows you to create organic shapes and work on details. For example, you can easily create ajours with this one. The workspace is now maximized for more efficiency.
Feel free to use your artistic skills with 3Shaper.
Tinkercad is a simple and user-friendly software. It’s a good software if you’re new with 3D modeling. You can directly get access to this program in your internet browser. It’s totally free and you don’t need previous experiences with CAD software to use it! You can create a lot of different models, so keep in mind that this software can be very useful if you are new with jewelry design.
And if you want to create your 3D model or design your piece of jewelry in just a few minutes, go check our Tinkercad tutorial! We are going to explain to you how to take in hand this online design tool.
Mudbox is a digital painting and sculpting software acquired by Autodesk. Particularly useful to create and modify artistic objects, for example, jewelry. It allows you to work on organic shapes, texture painting, and displacement. Mudbox is quite similar to ZBrush, but this 3D modeling software is more traditional. It uses layers, allowing the user to store different details passes, adding masks on the layers, and blending them. This way the user can work on the 3D model of his creation without making permanent changes. This could obviously be a great solution for your jewelry designs.
We hope that this top 11 list of jewelry design software helped you to find the right tools, adapted to your project and your needs and that it will help you to develop your creativity and stimulate your inspiration.
But what can you do once your 3D model is completely done, you need to 3D print your jewelry?
Good news, you can use our online 3D printing service. Thanks to the Binder Jetting 3D printers developed by ExOne, we’re able to 3D print jewelry with stainless steel 420 BR using the M-Flex printer. The material is perfect for 3D print jewelry. You can also use Wax Metal Casting to give life to your jewelry.
Give it a try and upload your 3D model here!
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