Updates

New

• Falloff: Move, Rotate and Scale act on each point by its weight, set with handles in the view (Linear, Radial or Cylinder).
• Mesh Cleanup: twelve clean-up options in one dialog, plus jewellery extras for loose specks, open edges and small holes.
• Edge Weight: harden edges of a subdivided surface without adding geometry, then Make Print Mesh for a printable body.
• Centre and Size in mm: centre objects or points on the origin, the cursor or another object, and type sizes in millimetres, not percent.
• AI Studio: describe a piece, make a reference picture, send it to Tripo for a 3D model and place it at true size.
• Your own AI app can drive AI Studio, but any paid request waits for your click on Allow.

Improved

• The section bar gains Shape and AI; a section opens its own panels, and Setting lists its sub-panels.
• A live weight line heads Check and Start Here, and findings read narrowly, worst first, with the full sentence of the one you pick.

Fixed

• AI Studio now refuses files that are not real PNG, JPEG or WEBP pictures, and sends nothing it has not checked.
• A paid request now needs your own click, and every started job counts against the daily spending allowance.

New

• Job files: a script or AI helper can build and check jewellery from one job file, with no Blender window open.
• Cage: a ring band held as a light control cage under a subdivision surface, solved so the surface passes through the sections you ask for.

Improved

• Internal change for scripts only: every tool, setting and book figure is described in a reference card kept in step with the code.
• A job file is checked in full before anything is built, and a refusal lists every reason.

New

• Signet panel: eight starting profiles; choose the face (oval, round, cushion or octagon), the shank, the border and what is cut.
• Cut text in any script, a picture or a relief; Persian and Arabic letters are joined correctly.
• Both forms: a one-part ring for the prototype print, and head and shank apart for production.
• Save and load every choice as a small sheet file, checked in full before it is used.

Improved

• Each build checks the bore against the ring size, the flat face and the shank, and weighs the ring.
• Blank Sheet resets every choice but keeps your size, metal and quality.

New

• Live Mirror: one click shows the other half across the ring's middle on the same mesh, in Edit Mode and Object Mode.
• Live Turn: copies turned about the ring's axis, joined at the seams, on the same mesh.
• Live Sizes: shows an object's size as you scale it, and in Edit Mode the length of each edge you change, with the change.
• Join Within, in millimetres, joins points closer than the gap you set; Make Real applies the result.

Improved

• The report is read from the mesh at every redraw, and a very large mesh is read once on request.

Improved

• Claws stand 2.00 mm above the table by default, with or without a talon tip; shorter is a choice you make.
• A claw keeps one diameter from foot to tip by default; a taper or a flare is something you set.
• Seat Run-Out explains that it is for a small stone's seat beside a neighbouring claw, never for a stone's own claws.
• A warning appears when run-out cutters are made for a stone that has claws of its own.

New

• Halo Layout: reads a round centre stone and its claws, and offers every ring of small stones that fits, with figures.
• Halo Band and Tilt: builds the band, makes a seat cutter for each small stone, and reads the metal left.
• Bend Leg: gives a claw a swept, bent leg while its top stays exactly as made.
• Seat Run-Out: a seat cutter that closes as a cone, for a small stone's seat beside a claw's foot.
• Head and Shank: measure the parting, then split a ring into head and shank, or fuse parts built apart.

Improved

• Castle Setting recognises a halo round a centre stone and accepts the close-halo pattern instead of warning.
• Cut Row now finishes the cut body cleanly, without stray fins or triangles of no area.

Improved

• Cut Metal applies the piece's live modifiers first by default, so they cannot act a second time on the cut.
• The print-clean measure counts what a print file would contain, including faces with collinear corners.
• The azure rib stays at 0.40 mm by default, with 0.30 mm as the floor.

Fixed

• The baguette's seat cutter no longer passes through itself.

New

• Castle Setting: for one row or ring of stones, a U cutter per stone, V cutters between neighbours, and the channel.
• Choose which walls get the V cut, including shared claws, and read back every claw and block against the book's figures.
• Walls can be Both, Outer, Inner, Left or Right, and the cutters follow stones that lean.

Improved

• Read-back gives a verdict on gaps, metal beyond the girdle, claw widths and cut depths before anything is cut.

New

• Azure Cutters: one cutter per stone that carries the seat's light hole down to a cell on the back, like a honeycomb.
• Every stone gets a verdict: funnel, round opening or none, with the reason and its numbers.
• Check and Remove report stale cutters and the metal taken in grams, and clear the azures.

Improved

• Ribs, walls and the metal under each seat are measured in 3D after the cutters are built; defaults come from the book where it speaks.

New

• Section bar: choose Start, Rings, Gems, Setting and more, and the tab shows only that section's panels.
• New Files Open With: a finger rail at a size you set, a box, or your own object in every new file.
• Reference Image: a picture at true size on the front, side or top plane, scaled by two points and a typed distance.
• Ruler: measure in millimetres by click, by drag or between selected points; T reads wall thickness and Alt+T starts it.

Improved

• Follow the Tool shows a tool's section when you start it by key, pie or menu.

New

• Shared claw snap: press S in Place Claws to put a claw the same distance from two neighbouring stones.
• A steps the axis of a polar array while placing, and Shift+A steps back.
• A Retopology button at the foot of Start Here opens the built-in retopology tools.

Improved

• A shared claw stands on the mean of the two stones' axes, and Ctrl slides it along its line.
• All eighteen cuts are now included in the add-on download.

New

• Eighteen faceted cuts: oval, cushion, princess, pear, marquise, emerald, radiant, heart, trillion, baguette and more.
• The cut shows as a picture; click it to see every cut in a grid.
• Any cut can be set to any width, length and depth and stays exact.

Improved

• Seats, claws and bezels are made for the stone as it is, not for a round.
• Every cut is exactly its own mirror image, so a mirrored pair of stones is a true pair.
• Files made in 2.8 keep the shapes of their stones.

New

• Mirror (Alt+M): choose what to mirror about: the guide's middle, the origin, the 3D cursor, another object, a picked line or its own centre.
• Copy Follows the Original: the copy redraws itself when the original is moved, edited or given a modifier.
• Turn Copies makes copies turned about the same references.

Improved

• A mirrored copy is a true mirror, never a negative scale, and modifiers such as Subdivision are mirrored exactly.
• The quick pie's Symmetry entry became Mirror and Copy, and still holds the twin tools.

New

• Keep Shape: select a stone or a drop and it lands whole on the piece instead of bending with the surface.

Fixed

• A band pulled out of round is no longer rolled out round the ring as if it were circular.
• A band picked all the way round is no longer unwrapped as a loop; whether it closes is read from how its faces join.

New

• Make Guide lays picked faces, or a band's outer face, flat at true size with a millimetre grid and o'clock marks.
• Draw on the guide and the pattern appears live on the piece, all the way round a closed band.
• Make Real bakes the pattern into a mesh; Join to Piece unites it with the piece and checks the result.

Improved

• The guide says how true it is: exact on a flat face, true along the centre on a dome.

New

• Hole under each stone: Through, Divot (a blind seat that never breaks through) or None.
• Gem Groups: hide, show or select stones by size, cut, stone or your own groups; the eye hides every stone at once.
• Quad Fill: fills n-gons and open borders with four-sided faces; border points never move.
• Tools for loops of points built in: bridge, circle, curve, flatten, loft, relax, space and stretch to a stroke.

Improved

• Through holes follow the stone's size (0.25 times the girdle past the culet by default) instead of a fixed 10 mm.
• The Cutters panel says what the hole depth means for the active stone, and reports flag holes deeper than twice their width.
• Edit Mode keeps Blender's own selection colours, and W opens the retopology pie only inside a retopology tool.

New

• Six retopology tools built in: add points and faces singly, draw strips of quads, bridge edges, make rings, drag points, even out spacing.
• Retopology extras: mirror, pin and unpin points, clean up, and the tools' settings in the add-on's preferences.
• A one-time Set Up window offers bench navigation (Alt + left drag) or Blender's default, and millimetres.

Improved

• Objects the add-on makes are named with a CJ_ prefix and recognised by a hidden tag, so you can rename them freely.
• Files made in 2.4.0 load unchanged.

New

• J opens a quick pie: Place Gems, Place Claws, Edit on Surface, Make Claws, Mirror and Copy, Make Cutters, Guides, All Commands.
• A Jeweller menu in the 3D view header lists every command in the order a piece is made, with each key shown.
• Start Here: the usual order of work as numbered buttons.
• Edit Array changes the count, angle, axis or mirrors of a symmetry group after it is made.

Improved

• Claw names are clearer: Pave claw (a small shared pin) and Setting claw (a stone's own shaped claw).

New

• Symmetry groups: mirror on X, Y or Z or repeat round an axis, as live twins that follow their master.
• Place Claws on Surface (Alt+C): snap claws into the gaps between stones or onto a girdle.
• Edit on Surface (Shift+E): pick a stone, claw or bead, slide it over its surface, resize it or delete it.
• Symmetry while placing: X, Y, Z, P and F work inside Place Gems and Place Claws.

Improved

• Re-landing casts each twin back onto its surface, for designs whose two sides differ.
• Ctrl+Shift+G flips the guides in Object Mode.

Improved

• Any requested claw or prong diameter below 0.35 mm is raised to 0.35 mm, so none is built thinner.

New

• Pave claws: a small round claw with a domed top stands on the girdle plane, instead of a ball.

Improved

• Seat cutters default to 95 percent of the girdle, with no extra clearance.
• At the end of a row the rim is never counted as a hold; a pair of holds goes in the widest empty arc.

New

• Graduated row for a narrow field: one row along the middle, with the most stones and the largest at the widest point.

Fixed

• No thin fin of metal is left at the mouth of the light hole under any stone.
• Alloy names such as platinum 950 now give the right density instead of a near match or an error.

New

• Pave Fill: fills the region inside a closed curve on any surface with graduated round pave; other curves become holes.
• Rows follow the outline, sizes graduate with the local width, and neighbours differ by at most one size step.
• Beads and cutters can be added in the gaps.

Improved

• Additive only: nothing that existed before changed.

New

• Alt+Wheel, or the [ and ] keys, change the spacing in 0.05 mm steps while placing (Ctrl 0.10, Shift 0.01).

Improved

• The preview recolours at once, and the status bar shows size, spacing and the live gap.

Improved

• Place Gems switches the guides on when it starts, unless your last run ended with them off; G toggles them while placing.
• The remembered state survives files and restarts.

Fixed

• Shift+G did nothing because Blender's own Select Grouped took the key first; the add-on's key now wins in Object Mode.

New

• Installs as a Blender extension under GPL-3.0-or-later.
• The book's standards with page references: ring sizing in UK, US, EU and JP, stone densities and carat estimates, and house defaults.
• Units at 1 unit = 1 mm, with a panel warning and a one-click fix.
• The first tools: rings, stones, placement, claws, seats and checks, each built to the book's figures.

Improved

• Internal rebuild: tidier code, one place for keys, and a switch-off that leaves nothing behind.