Simple Statement - Ruan Basson: Week 6 Ring

 Ghosted view

 Front 3/4

Rear 3/4

Close Up

For this project I wanted to make a ring that I eventually print in silver with Shapeways.  I plan on making it a mother's day gift for my mom.  The tanzanite in the center I bought a few weeks ago and I have also bought the 1mm accent diamonds.  When I do get to printing this in silver I will set those stones in the halo and basket setting.

I used a lot of solid building and filleting to get the finished product.  I also use project to extrude and trim the cutouts before I filleted them.  That is where my issues came in.  When I filleted the edges of the cutouts, I did not notice at first that there was a surface issue, so I could not fix it right away.  When I later noticed them and tried to go back to remove them, all methods I tried failed.  I plan on remodeling the top portion, as I have saved an earlier iteration of the model.  The stones I did not model myself, I had a friend in the CAD class for jewelry give me the prebuilt stone file her professor provided them, since the important portion of my model is the setting for the stone.  I needed to be as accurate as I could.

The material is sterling silver, since that is what I plan on printing it in this material eventually.  I like the look of silver, since it is a warmer looking metal than platinum or white gold.  The tanzanite resembles the one I have as closely as I could get it.  The diamonds are also almost exactly the way they look in real life.  I played with the material settings to achieve this, and I love the way the model turned out.