Digital designs are only half the story; the other half is getting them made. Version 9.1 provided two new wizards to make manufacturing easier. The first one was for index machining, allowing machining at a series of fixed angles on rotary equipment. The second wizard was truly a time-saver: it could develop mold designs automatically from product designs, generating the parting line and the two mold sections from a user-specified block of material.
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The most powerful feature introduced in Version 9 was the layered design approach. Similar to working in Adobe Photoshop, designers could build their jewelry using multiple layers, each containing a different element like a 3D shape, a texture, or some lettering. This system offered incredible control: Digital designs are only half the story; the