{"id":12675,"date":"2016-07-29T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=12675"},"modified":"2024-01-26T12:12:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T17:12:11","slug":"creating-custom-engagement-ring-solidworks-part-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2016\/07\/creating-custom-engagement-ring-solidworks-part-four.html","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Custom Engagement Ring- Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though rings are often associated with marriage, this isn\u2019t always the case. Rings are versatile in meaning, and have held symbolic value in humanity for centuries. From personal expression to granting invisibility to physical declarations of love, rings really have no single purpose. Whether you\u2019re a Lord of the Rings fan or want simply to create a cost-effective option for your fraternity, this is the perfect way to dip your toes into the world of SOLIDWORKS.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few weeks, we will be sharing with you a four part tutorial series on how to create a custom engagement ring in SOLIDWORKS!\u00a0We\u2019ll start slow, and cover everything from the prongs and settings to adding additional accent stones and rounding off the shank for maximum comfort.<\/p>\n<h1>Custom Engagement Ring Part Four\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Mirrors, Patterns, and Final Touches<\/h1>\n<p>In the final video in the custom engagement ring series, we will be taking a deeper dive into the intermediate SOLIDWORKS features Mirror\u00a0and\u00a0Pattern, and also use the more advanced Boundary feature. We begin by\u00a0performing a series of mirrors to create the prongs of the ring. Then, we will use the circular pattern feature to finish modeling the accent stones on the shank.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MRmybrfdr6A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once a week for the next month, we will bring you the next step in the Custom Engagement Ring tutorial series. Can\u2019t wait for the next video? View all of the tutorials\u00a0on the playlist <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLiKqXuECiKNKQ9_PKz2-NlJ_Nnwe2KFBN\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As always, thanks for watching! Show us what you come up with in the comments section! We can\u2019t wait to see your designs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though rings are often associated with marriage, this isn\u2019t always the case. Rings are versatile in meaning, and have held symbolic value in humanity for centuries. From personal expression to granting invisibility to physical declarations of love, rings really have<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2016\/07\/creating-custom-engagement-ring-solidworks-part-four.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":12677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,35,36],"tags":[1205,592,109,1204,446,889,453,414],"class_list":["post-12675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-solidworks","category-tips-tricks","category-usability","tag-circular-pattern","tag-custom","tag-mirror","tag-pattern","tag-ring","tag-solidworks","tag-tips-and-tricks","tag-tutorial"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12675"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13028,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675\/revisions\/13028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}