Hamed Arab Academy
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Jewellery CAD and AI · Birmingham Jewellery Quarter

Rhino CAD and AI for jewellers

Helping jewellery brand owners design, build and automate with Rhino CAD and AI. In person in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter or online.

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Hamed Arab
Free Blender add-on · v2.19.0 · 28 versions

The CAD/CAM Jeweller add-on for Blender

Jewellery CAD tools built on the standards of The CAD/CAM Jeweller.

  • 205tools in 15 sections
  • 19stone shapes
  • Freeopen source, GPL-3.0-or-later
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The Hamdam Hodhod Roundel Pendant, a Silux London design, in Blender's 3D view as a yellow model with pale blue stones, with the CAD/CAM sidebar open on Gems and one of its forty stones selected
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Courses and 1:1

Taught in the studio in the Jewellery Quarter, or online.

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A four-claw solitaire ring with small stones along both shoulders, seen from above, in Blender's solid view
One-to-one course in Blender

Learn jewellery design in Blender

£960 · five sessions of four hours · one to one

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Courses

Blender and Rhino CAD/CAM, and AI, taught 1:1 or by the pack.

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MakerOS

An AI operating system, set up for your business and running on your own computers.

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The CAD/CAM Jeweller

The book behind the Academy: production standards for jewellery CAD.

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Community

Join The Bench, the Academy's community for the UK jewellery trade.

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1:1 sessions

Fix one problem

£90 (1 hour) or £120 (2 hours)

One focused session on the exact thing stopping you.

Your first ring, print-ready

£540, signed book included

Build a real ring in Rhino, from a curve on screen to a file ready to print.

Sketch to caster

£960, signed book and certificate included

The full route from a blank Rhino file to a caster-ready pack, across a real range of pieces.

Book a free callA free 30-minute call to map your goals. No obligation.
Free tools

Free for jewellers

Calculators and utilities that run in your browser, and free downloads.

All free tools

Measure and size

Stones

Price and cost

Sell and comply

Free downloads
The CAD/CAM Jeweller: first two chaptersThe opening two chapters of the book, free as a PDF, for jewellers new to CAD.makerOpen
FreeFlow (Windows dictation app)Hold Alt+1, speak, and clean text is pasted where you were typing. Free, Windows 11.anyoneOpen

Read the first two chapters

The opening two chapters of The CAD/CAM Jeweller, free as a PDF, for jewellers new to CAD.

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About

Hamed Arab

Jewellery designer and founder of Silux London. He teaches Rhino CAD and AI to other makers, in the studio in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter and online.

  • Official Rhino Training Centre since 2023. Rhino Authorized Trainer.
  • Goldsmiths' Craft and Design Council Award winner three times (2017 to 18, 2019 to 20, 2023 to 24).
  • Golden A'Design Award (2019 to 20). British Art Medal Society Award (2019).
  • Author of The CAD/CAM Jeweller.
About Hamed
How it works

How a project runs

  1. Step 1

    Start with a conversation

    A free 30-minute call to map your goals and the work you want to do. No obligation, and you leave with a clear recommendation.

  2. Step 2

    Build it together

    We set up MakerOS on your computers and teach it your business, your prices and your voice, or teach you Rhino CAD/CAM hands on. You learn the workflow as we go.

  3. Step 3

    Run it every day

    You keep the tools and the habits. MakerOS handles the repeatable work so you can spend your time on the part only you can do: make.

The CAD/CAM Jeweller Volume 1 by Hamed Arab Choobdar
The book

The CAD/CAM Jeweller

Volume 1: The Definitive Guide for Modern Jewellery Design

The book is the foundation behind everything taught in the Academy: real production standards, written from years on the bench and at the screen. Volume 2 is in development.

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Students and users

In their words

“Work that used to take days, I have finished in two hours. It has moved my work forward to the point where I feel I can do anything I dream of.”

Tanin, Artist and designer

“It's been like having a knowledgeable second pair of eyes on something I had zero experience with. Genuinely changed how much I can take on myself.”

Andrea, MakerOS user
The Bench Journal

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