> sorry everything is related to jewelry making

Hi Pat, nothing to be sorry about, thanks for posting these!

MoI is being used by quite a few people for jewelry design, so this is a great place to post any and all jewelry related stuff.

It's great to see how these cutters can be used to place as many stones as you want!

The only thing is these files are somewhat large (even zipped, although that helps a lot), pretty soon you'll fill up all the space available to you for attachments here on the forum so at that point you'll probably need to use some kind of file sharing service like divShare, either that or post just the cutting piece itself and then a JPEG screenshot of some examples, instead of the actual model files of the examples with many stones in them.

At some point I'd like to tune things up so that file size is not as much of an issue in the forum but it will be a little while before I'll be able to work on that.

- Michael

okay here's a smaller file with some cutters and some pics.... I deleted the first to shorten the file size
hope this is better let me know

Hi Pat, this way will be a lot better, you won't fill up your attachment space nearly as quickly.

Just one more thing - when you create an image to attach if you can create it using the JPEG image format (the file ends in .jpg), that is a much more efficient format space-wise than BMP which you've got here.

So for instance each of these images saved as a BMP file here are 2 Megabytes, while the same image saved as a JPEG is around 90 Kilobytes, which is less than 1/20th the size.

So if you use JPEGs, you will be able to attach 20 times as many images before filling up your alloted attachment space...

- Michael

I give it a try thanks for the help!