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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 1546903, member: 15199&quot;]Machines can be used to rough out the design, and then hand work done to finish the die. If a fault occurs in the production of the die, it is easy to replicate the &quot;roughing in&quot; part and reduce the amount of work needed. Many jewelry items such as individualized rings are done by digital machines for the rough shape , and then can be modified if the size of the stone is lightly off before lost wax casting in PM.</p><p><br /></p><p>One nice aspect is that a design could be done in a 3dCad program in the positive aspect, wax printed to see what the design looks like when finished, and when as desired, reverse the image to the negative and machine the steel die for production after small details are cut by hand or dental hand piece and polished. IMO.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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