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Getting All the Details Just Right
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It’s a big part of why Matrix out-performs anything else on the market. Creating a great design – not just a good one – is the result of an eye for design coupled with the ability to explore and refine. Every surface needs to be just right. If these details are not easily realized or are too time-consuming, the design is kept from reaching its full potential. But Matrix 6 does it all – creativity, speed, and precision – by providing tools and methods that jewelers, and only jewelers, need.
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Computer Aided Creativity
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Over two years in the making, Matrix Version 6 represents Gemvision's most extensive upgrade yet. Matrix 6 offers a new way of designing jewelry no other software even comes close to. Utilizing years of input from the best CAD modelers in the industry as well as our own development team, Matrix provides users with the fastest way to replicate existing designs while allowing that process to take many creative paths.
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History Built In
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History allows you to change, update and edit a model. This editing method has been used in other CAD products primarily created for mechanical engineering as a “History Tree”. Matrix 6 has no such “Tree”. Instead, our History is contained within the parts you build and is only one click away. This means making design changes is not only easier, it’s specially tailored to the design demands of jewelers making something beautiful.
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Powerful Gem Tools
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Matrix 6 offers the largest array of tools for laying out and adjusting gems. Control over scale, rotation, and movement are put into one easy set of tools. And the sophisticated new Pave tool allows beautiful flowing patterns over the most demanding surfaces.

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Style Sheets
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Many of the tools in Matrix feature our exclusive “Style Sheet” functionality. This means that items like heads and settings, that you build on a regular basis, can be instantly recalled and applied to a new piece. For example, if you create a “channel setting style” with a particular end shape and taper, Style Sheets store those parameters so you can apply that to another design in the future. And History works hand in hand with Style Sheets so the gems you use for that channel setting actually “remember” how the channel was made and changes are just clicks away. This means you can complete the channel-setting task and explore a new look for the channel in the same design session.
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Interface Design
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The new Matrix interface simplifies and unites the appearance and usability of the program. And when using specific tools, we have found that people use a variety of methods to work with software: some people like to type; others like to interact with the model directly onscreen; while still others click on buttons and icons. One thing is for sure: there is not a single best way! That's why most functions in Matrix offer all three methods from which to choose from.
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Library Items for
Quick Builds
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Creating your design from scratch insures you get exactly what you want. But often the base of the design is a standard part or profile. Matrix now offers flexible standard parts already in the program. And you can call up a part or piece that is very close to meeting your needs then quickly edit it to make it just right.
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Following Trends and Anticipating Them
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Jewelry is fashion and fashion is always changing. Matrix 6 was developed looking at the latest trends and studying what has been and what is on the way. ········································ Rendering and Shaded Working Modes
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Surface design, technical inspection, and design review using finished metal and gems, all require a different display mode. Matrix 6 offer multiple modes that make whatever you are doing easier to see, evaluate, and present. |

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Pre-Sorted Tools
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While gathering input from existing users, we found they were asking for tools that were already part of the program. So why is it that even advanced users didn’t know where to find these tools? Simple: people become accustomed to using any software in a certain way, performing even new tasks using familiar methods even if it takes them longer to do so! We have therefore provided the F6 key as a way to access all the tools that are relevant to the task you are performing. This translates to fast “look up” of the tools you use most often, as well as insight into tools that might save you time or offer further design options you were looking for.
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Surface Control for
All Users
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Each surface you build needs to be perfect, it’s essential to great design. Having this kind of control used to require a huge time investment and if you got it right the first time, it was great - but if not, it was back to step one. Matrix 6 changes all that with the an advanced level of surface modeling using tools even beginners find easy! And with History, you can now make changes to even complex surfaces on the fly - meaning your design ideas can be realized in just in seconds...not hours.
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Matrix Voted Number 1
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Matrix and Revo were both voted the number one choice among CAD/CAM professionals in the MJSA Journal Tech Survey.
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