JewelryCAM
JewelryCAM is a fully automatic 5-axis CAM program built exclusively for the Mira Mill family. Native Rhino 3D plugin. One-click toolpath generation. No CNC programming knowledge required.
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JewelryCAM is a fully automatic 5-axis CAM program built exclusively for the Mira Mill family. Native Rhino 3D plugin. One-click toolpath generation. No CNC programming knowledge required.
General-purpose CAM was built for mechanical parts — flat stock, prismatic geometry, repeatable features. Jewelry is the opposite: organic curves, compound undercuts, microscopic stone settings, surface quality cast directly to metal. General-purpose CAM handles mechanical parts quickly and jewelry poorly. JewelryCAM was built from the ground up for jewelry. Load the Rhino model, select a strategy — the program calculates the full 5-axis toolpath automatically. Rotary motion, tool orientation, depth passes. No auxiliary surfaces. No G-code. No CAM expertise.
A native Rhino 3D plugin, compatible with Matrix, RhinoGold, and RhinoJewel. Design, toolpath generation, and machine output in one environment. Core algorithms written in C++ and executed natively — not interpreted. Calculation is fast. Output is deterministic. Advanced users have access to Rhino's full geometry toolkit for vector-controlled strategies including DriveSurface and Swarf operations.
The first NS CNC 5-axis machines shipped in 2009 with a third-party CAM program — adequate for mechanical parts, slow for jewelry. By 2010 the tools were the bottleneck, not the machines. In 2011 NS CNC partnered with ModuleWorks — one of the world's few firms capable of building a genuine 5-axis CAM kernel — to build something new. Four years later, Version 1 shipped. Version 2 followed in 2019 — a fundamental rewrite of the calculation engine, the strategy selection system, and the interface. Version 3 is in active development.
