{"id":409,"date":"2013-07-30T17:45:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T16:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicky-forrester.com\/jewellery_news\/?p=409"},"modified":"2013-08-26T14:02:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T13:02:15","slug":"matrix-cad-for-jewellery-level-4-skills-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicky-forrester.com\/jewellery_news\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"Matrix, CAD for jewellery – part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Vicky<\/a><\/p>\n

No-one could have been more delighted than me to hear about the Level 4 fast track Matrix course at Holt\u2019s Academy this June<\/p>\n

As a recent convert to Computer aided jewellery design<\/a> I was eager to get the push to further develop my working knowledge of Matrix. I think I mentioned that I had bought the student one year license, but setting up had been more than just a little nightmare and having finally conceded to purchase a purpose-built PC solely to run the software I had made far less progress on my own than I had hoped for.<\/p>\n

Utmost in my mind was the daily depreciation of the license I\u2019d bought, and attending a second course seemed a great way to getting some real value from the not inexpensive investment I\u2019d already made in Matrix and all the paraphernalia required to actually make it run (GEMVISION take note!!).Once again, Jack Meyer pulled out all the stops and we rolled at high speed high pressure through numerous challenging assignments that extended our knowledge from basic modelling into working with nurbs and tsplines using sculpting skills and\u00a0 advanced rendering techniques\u2026 6 months ago I wouldn\u2019t have a clue what I\u2019m talking about!<\/p>\n

But here are some end results that I hope will explain the lingo<\/p>\n

\"Siren,<\/a><\/p>\n

Our course was running through some of the hottest days of the year so far. Roasting and under pressure, I have made some good friends in that sweaty CAD room over the last 7 weeks\u2026. it\u2019s great to know that we can phone a friend about those niggling\u00a0 nurby issues we can\u2019t resolve<\/p>\n

Currently there are no more matrix specific follow on courses available, so we\u2019re on our own now\u2026 But I also realise that now we have the tools to understand the software more intuitively, and the only way to get better with CAD is to put in the hours, make mistakes and learn your own short-cuts, so this is going to be keeping me busy for the foreseeable.<\/p>\n

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No-one could have been more delighted than me to hear about the Level 4 fast track Matrix course at Holt\u2019s Academy this June As a recent convert to Computer aided jewellery design I was eager to get the push to further develop my working knowledge of Matrix. I think I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[6,19,4,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicky-forrester.com\/jewellery_news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicky-forrester.com\/jewellery_news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicky-forrester.com\/jewellery_news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicky-forrester.com\/jewellery_news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicky-forrester.com\/jewellery_news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicky-forrester.com\/jewellery_news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicky-forrester.com\/jewellery_news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicky-forrester.com\/jewellery_news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicky-forrester.com\/jewellery_news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicky-forrester.com\/jewellery_news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}