Pavé Perfection: Gemstone Detailing & Setting

Master Pavé Setting with RhinoArtisan

Pavé is where jewelry design meets precision engineering: dozens of stones, each one placed, secured and cut for production. Pavé Perfection: Gemstone Detailing & Setting is a project-based course that teaches you to control every part of that process in RhinoArtisan — from the first reference curve to the final boolean cut.

Across six complete projects you’ll build every kind of pavé surface a real collection demands:

• Pavé Diamond Ring — from a single reference curve to a double-sided pavé ring, with Automatic Pave filling both faces with diamonds from 0.8 to 1.3 mm.
• Anchor Chain Earrings — organic SubD sculpting meets stone setting, with a honeycomb cutout, a custom bail and findings, finished as a paired, render-ready set.
• Classic Pavé Ring — a fully parametric shank carrying a multi-row grid of gems graduating from 2.0 down to 1.1 mm, kept in order with ISO guide curves and symmetry.
• Pavé Pendant — the most complete build: Rail Revolve surfaces, 4-way symmetric pavé, a mirrored decorative profile pattern, and a square turntable render ready for social media.
• Domed Pavé Signet Ring — Network Surfaces and a 0.8 mm hollowing insert produce a lighter, manufacturable ring with a fully paved dome.
• Butterfly Pendant — a 2D reference image becomes a 3D pendant with gems on curves, interior pavé, a marquise center stone in a six-claw basket and a custom bail.

Along the way you’ll master the full setting toolkit — Automatic Pave, Pave from Point, Pavé Along Surface, Gems on Curve, automatic and manual prongs, and production-ready cutters — plus the modeling techniques that support it: SubD sculpting, QuadRemesh, Network Surfaces, Rail Revolve and clean boolean work.

Every section pairs a short overview with illustrated step-by-step lessons — over 80 annotated captures across 34 lessons — and closes with the full video demonstration. The 3DM starting files and reference images are included as downloads, so you can follow along piece by piece.