Authorised Partner
3D Printing for jewellery Manufacturing
Unleash design freedom and increase quality for high-volume production and custom jewellery
Successful jewelry design requires creativity and quality. We combine over 20 years of jewelry manufacturing experience and industry-specific solutions to give you a competitive advantage in high-throughput and mass-custom jewelry manufacturing.
Our 3D printing solutions ensure perfect quality and reliability every time, reduce time to market and cost, and, while fitting into your standard manufacturing workflows, allow you to achieve new levels of jewelry design and productivity.
The Role of 3D Printing in Jewelry Manufacturing
Maximum Design Freedom for High-Volume and Mass Custom Jewelry Manufacturing
Reveal your most creative jewelry designs faster, in unparalleled quality and productivity without compromise.
Our 3D printing solutions have been developed to produce jewellery casting patterns that fit into your standard lost wax casting process, for reliable output every time. This enables the quick and cost-effective creation, iteration, and production of all jewellery styles, including the most complex geometries.
Our unique additive manufacturing solutions allow you to innovate by enabling you to rapidly test and iterate new designs, create advanced parts that can withstand the extremes of underhood and powertrain environments, and maximize the efficiencies of your manufacturing process. All this helps give you a crucial advantage over your competitors.
Jewelry Manufacturing Solutions to Meet your Lost Wax Casting Workflow
Enjoy Uncompromised Castability
Variabilities in jewelry casting quality are caused by many factors, all of which can affect surface quality and accuracy. Our 3D wax printer for jewelry produces high-fidelity and smooth surface finish patterns that are fully compatible with standard casting processes. Guaranteed accurate and high-quality casting – 100% pattern burn out, no ash residue.
Experience Unmatched Productivity
Meeting demand and quality standards requires fast design iteration and customization on the fly, as well as the capability to produce high-volume production batches. 3D printed jewelry patterns using 3D Systems solutions deliver cost-effective, high-quality results with quick turnaround and high throughput at factory scale.
Unleash Design Freedom
Traditional manufacturing constraints limit engineers’ ability to design advanced propulsion and mobility systems. Our comprehensive underhood 3D printing solution includes equipment, software, advanced materials, and services, giving you the capabilities you need to design complex parts for limited spaces.
Ease-of-Use in an Industrial Solution
Our plug-and-play additive manufacturing solutions for jewelry enable high-volume production without a corresponding increase in labor. Dissolvable and meltable supports result in excellent surface quality for reduced finishing labor and polishing of costly precious metals.
Streamline your file-to-pattern workflow with the advanced 3D Sprint® software capabilities, fast and versatile MJP print speeds, and batch support removal to deliver high-quality, ready-to-cast patterns. To maximize the productivity of your 3D Systems Printer, 3D Connect™ Service provides a secure cloud-based connection to 3D Systems’ service teams for proactive and preventative support to enable better service, improve uptime and deliver production assurance for your system.
Evolving Mold Making Solutions for Today’s Jewelry Manufacturers
Leverage our digital solutions, developed specifically for compatibility with jewelry processes for high volume manufacturing: 3D print high quality, smooth surface, ultra-high detailed, heat resistant master patterns for rubber molding.
Our 3D printing technology, software, and material solutions are fast alternatives to a labor-intensive and design-limiting, multi-step process.
Accelerate Your Jewelry Casting Molds Workflow with 3D Systems’ Advanced 3D Printing Solutions
Expect Exceptional Material Performance
Use heat-resistant plastic materials for your master patterns that are compatible with a wide range of silicones and designed in collaboration with jewelry mold makers for RTV and HTV jewelry molding processes.
Digital solutions developed for compatibility with existing jewelry mold-making processes help you push the limits of design creativity. Our 3D printing solutions use jewelry-specific build styles for various design needs, with a focus on accuracy, smooth surfaces, and fine features.
Enhance Quality
Produce superior quality master patterns with best-in-class surface finish and ultra-high detail resolution with our proprietary build style and materials developed specifically for the jewelry industry. Our solutions cover a wide range of design styles, including thin, delicate geometries, fine mesh, and more. Easy to remove supports limit contacts for a smooth surface finish.
Implement Faster, More Flexible Solutions
Go from design to final rubber mold in hours with 3D-printed jewelry master patterns. Use the same printer and material for molding and prototyping applications, and easily switch material types for direct jewelry casting.
Create High-Quality Prototypes Fast
Explore and validate more creations by producing fast 3D printed high-fidelity, detailed prototypes, with precise surface quality. Check stone settings and client fittings of custom jewelry with functional prototypes.
Solve Your Biggest Exterior Body Challenges
Produce Detailed Prototypes
Creating innovative jewelry requires the ability to iterate quickly and get customer feedback on design and fit. We’ve developed 3D printing solutions that allow jewelry designers and manufacturers to create detailed, accurate, high-fidelity representations of their digital creations for design validation. Our innovative, high-contrast materials are developed to facilitate fine detail visualization, including for customer fittings, as well as for stone settings, including micro-pavé.
Our end-to-end digital workflow enables the most complex designs to be 3D printed with true-to-CAD fidelity. Show off your most creative designs including fine, filigree details with our 3D printing solutions.
Achieve Faster Turnaround
Fast prototyping is essential in the jewelry business. Our jewelry 3D printing solutions produce prototypes in minutes using materials that are ready for painting and plating for model validation. Iterate quickly by printing multiple designs in a single build and reduce labor with easy support removal.
Addressing All Your Jewelry Design Challenges with 3D Printing
Every jewelry style has its own design and production challenges. Our 3D jewelry manufacturing solutions provide a competitive advantage, with the high quality, accuracy, and reliability required for every design style.
With features such as thin wires, twisted pipes, and ornate surfaces, sharpness and fine details are critical. Our 3D printing solutions for prototyping, casting and rubber molding patterns deliver high-resolution and fine details down to 0.2 mm.
These designs require the ability to produce hollow, lightweight filigree and thin wire mesh shapes. Our solutions for castable plastic or 100% wax pattern production deliver the capabilities required for these highly detailed pieces.
Single, multiple, and pavé stone designs—some including micro-prongs with gaps as small as 0.2 mm—require accurate patterns and a superior surface finish. From functional prototyping and stone setting validation, to patterns for direct casting or rubber molding, our 3D jewelry printing solutions deliver parts with the high accuracy, smooth finish, and fine details required for even the smallest prongs.
These solid, heavier-weight designs feature a large surface area that requires patterns with a smooth surface finish. From prototyping for design validation to 3D printed patterns for direct casting and rubber molding, our 3D solutions generate geometries that fit into your manufacturing process seamlessly.
Why Choose 3D Systems to Take Your Jewellery Manufacturing Workflows to the Next Level?
20+ Years of Experience
Decades of jewelry and additive manufacturing expertise plus our valuable network of R&D partnerships allow us to implement the best solutions for jewelry manufacturers.
3D Systems offers a choice of innovative materials designed to fit your standard processes:
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100% wax and castable plastics for lost wax casting
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Heat-resistant, rigid plastics for master patterns
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High-contrast material for functional prototyping
Consistent Quality
Quality printed parts ensure fine details, accuracy, high fidelity, smooth surfaces, and repeatability for consistent results through your manufacturing workflow.
Unlimited Design Freedom
Take designs to new levels with geometries that have no creative limits, and processes that ensure reliability. Dissolvable and meltable supports enable limitless geometries with no impact to surface finish.
Increased Manufacturing Scalability
Our 3D printing solutions easily scale to address manufacturing needs, ranging from fast turnaround prototypes and mass custom manufacturing to high-throughput production. Gain unprecedented levels of agility with ease-of-use that ensures high-quality results at any scale.
Proven System Reliability
Our reliable, industrial, end-to-end 3D printing solutions provide high uptime, low operating costs, and improved efficiency. And 3D Connect, our remote diagnostics management software, provides clients with continuous secure, proactive, and preventative cloud-based support from 3D Systems service teams.