What are the advantages of 3D printing jewelry?
Nowadays many different manufacturing techniques can be used in order to produce a design. For example, you might decide to use CNC machining. This is not always the best option though. If you want to create a jewelry piece it is much better to use online 3D printing for example. When doing this, the process will be partially 3D printing. Traditional jewelry making will be utilized as well. This is the best way to create 3D printed jewelry at the moment. In the future, this might change due to technological developments. However, below you can already find the advantages of 3D printed jewelry.
Do not worry about production
A big advantage of 3D printing for jewelry designers is that they no longer need to worry about producing their designs. After you have generated the 3D file, you can send it to a 3D print service and they will take care of producing the jewelry piece. These companies have all the information they need in the 3D file, so it is going to be an easy process for them to produce the item. You could also buy a 3D printer yourself, but this is much more expensive and it is also more difficult. On top of that, you would need an industrial 3D printer. On home printers it is often impossible to 3D print jewelry.
Easily edited
Another big benefit of 3D printing jewelry is that the 3D files can be edited easily. You can first print a 3D model as a plastic prototype. By doing this, you can check if the design and the quality are correct. Is this the case? Great! You can now actually 3D print the jewelry piece. However, if the design or the quality is a bit off, you can easily change the 3D file so it is improved. Make these changes in the 3D modeling software so the final design is perfect.
A lot of detail
3D printing will also come with an enormous amount of detail. It is actually quite hard to put into words how much detail there is in a jewelry piece created with the help of a 3D printer. Therefore, it is better to look at some jewelry items that have been 3D printed. Online you can find many examples, but the best one has to be ‘Frog Ring’. This piece is designed by Peter Donders.
