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A piece, from sketch to 3D
The six things you can do to a piece from its card, who takes each one on, and what comes back.
Every piece has a card, and the card has a menu
In Studio, the left column of a collection is Pieces. Each piece is a card, and the three dots on its right open everything you can do to it: Add a sketch, Send for review, Extend into a set, Draft the design sheet, Build in 3D and Hand in a .3dm. The first four are always there; Build in 3D appears once the piece has a design sheet draft, because the sheet's measurements are what the model is built from.
Add a sketch
Upload a picture or pick one from the portfolio. If the piece has a note on it that nobody has answered yet, DuoHand asks Is this your redraw?: choose Yes, it answers the marked-up sketch and the new picture is filed as the next version of the one that was marked up, so the chain of what changed and what passed stays in order; choose No, a new sketch and it starts a line of its own.
Send for review
The piece goes to the reviewers placed on the collection, who mark it up or pass it. A sketch that comes back with notes can be answered with Add a sketch as above, or handed to a designer to redraw with Send back in the mark-up window.
Extend into a set
One piece becomes the family: ring, pendant, earrings, proportioned against each other. A designer does this, so the piece needs one; see who takes it on, below.
Draft the design sheet
Metal, stones, dimensions and finishes, written up as a draft you can correct. The dimensions on this sheet are the input for the 3D build, so a piece with no sheet cannot be built, and a sheet with a missing dimension cannot either.
Build in 3D
A CAD designer takes the sheet's dimensions and builds the piece in Rhino on your own computer, through Bench, so that computer has to be on and connected. While it works the card carries a small tag, queued, then building, and the collection's room reports the start, the finish or the failure with its reason. When it is done the tag reads 3D; press it to open the model in the viewer. The model is filed on the piece and in the portfolio.
Hand in a .3dm
For a model you built yourself in Rhino. It is uploaded into the portfolio's 3D folder and filed on the piece exactly as a DuoHand build would be, so everything that follows reads it the same way.
Who takes it on
A sketch you uploaded yourself has no designer, so DuoHand asks
A sketch a designer drew carries that designer's name; one you uploaded does not. So when such a sketch needs a designer, for Send back, Extend into a set, Draft the design sheet, or when a review sends it back, the Who takes it on window asks you to pick one of the designers placed on the collection's Product Designer row. If only one is placed, it is assigned without asking; if none is, DuoHand says so and the fix is to place one. Build in 3D works the same way with the CAD Designer row.
Questions
Building
What can it build today?
A plain band: inner diameter, width and thickness, in millimetres, read from the design sheet. For any other kind of piece the CAD designer says plainly that it cannot build this one yet; build it yourself in Rhino and use Hand in a .3dm, and the piece carries on from there as if DuoHand had built it.
How long does a build take?
A band builds in about ten seconds once it starts. If your computer is off or Bench is not connected, the card stays at queued until it is.
The card says build failed.
The room shows the reason next to the piece's name. The usual ones are a dimension missing from the sheet and the computer not being connected. Fix the cause and press Build in 3D again.
Can I see what the build measured?
Yes. The piece carries the model and its volume, read from the geometry rather than from the sheet; the 3D tag opens the model itself.
More in this chapter
- Rooms and who sees themSharing a collection, and what the people you invite can do.
- Room settingsEvery switch a collection has: who is in, which minds answer, what they may read, and which Rhino they open.
- Agents and their trainingThe designers and reviewers at a collection's table, what each is trained on, and the switch that decides whether that training helps DuoHand itself.
- Brand packWhat a brand's pack holds, how it is trained from your material, and what it is compared against.