Chapter 7 :
Intermediate Gem Tools
Section II :
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Intermediate Gem Tools
These gem tools facilitate placing and setting Pave’, gem lines with exact size and
spacing, and other intermediate design applications.
Chapter Overview: Simple Pave’
Gem tools covered in this chapter begin with
Simple Pave’ - a quick and useful tool for laying out
pave in hex patterns with angle and spacing you can
control. The reason
you might choose this
tool over the Automatic
Pave’ builder - a more
advanced tool - is that
you can assign precise
sizes and the number
of gems in each size,
to make the layout
according to gems you already have. It is better used
on less complex surfaces, and can cover component
surfaces of a polysurface.
Chapter Overview: Gem on a Surface
The Gem on Surface
tool is also useful for
placing gems at the exact
size and spacing required
for a layout. You may
lay out a pave’ pattern
one gem at a time; fill in
a pave’ pattern (if it has
“holes” in it) created with
either of the other two Pave’
builders; or you may input a curve that the gems will
adhere to, and create a “Gem on a Curve” layout
with sizing AND spacing you assign (the automatic
Gem on a Curve tool lets you assign either sizing OR
spacing, but not both).
The key to this tool is the spacing, which
ingeniously provides visual cues in the way of circles
around each gem that turn red when the gems will
intersect; blue to show their distance away from one
another; and green when they are within tolerance of
the spacing you assigned in the builder.
New to this tool is its ability to now place ANY
gem on a surface that you choose. Therefore, you
may access it now from the Gem Loader, choosing
any gem shape and size and clicking the “On