Gemstone Designs

by Jón Olaf Svane

Faceters all over the world, especially the amateurs, are constantly making new designs to improve their hobby. To some designing is what they do, others cut gems. Very few are consequent in doing both. And even rarely is seen a cutter, who designs a cut then cuts it, and then releases it.
With the upcome of the new Windows version of the "CAD" design program GEMCAD, making new designs has become easy. Only problem left is to identify, if the "new" design really is new. Best source for this kind of info is facetdiagrams.org, a database of more than 4000 gem designs. Incidently continueing the work layed into the DVue2-program and DataVue database.

Design files are available in various formats:

File prefix Used with Download from
.GEM
.ASC		 GemCad
.ASC may also bee edited in any plain text editor like Notepad or Wordpad, and afterwards used in GemCad or GemCutStudio.		 Check Robert Strickland's GemCAD
or
Rej Poirier's GemCutStudio
.GCS GemCutStudio
The native format of GemCutStudio		 Check Rej Poirier's GemCutStudio
.PDF to be viewed with AdobeAcrobatReader® or your browser if it supports PDF. AdobeAcrobateReader® acroread
.JPG
.GIF		 to be viewed in any pictureviewer like IrfanView, Microsoft Photo Editor, PhotoShop or whichever you have available. IrfanView
  DataVue2 database DVue2
  facetdiagrams.org - the new database of faceting diagrams. Based on DataVue2 database. facetdiagrams.org

Links to other facetors Faceting Design Pages Theese may show defunct, since as time passes webpages tend to vanish or change names.

My Designs

Following is my own designs. I list them here by name only, but via my index, you may find them from various other criteria.
Name .PDF file Web file .GCS file .GEM file Picture
Barion Heart BarionHeart     BarionHeart
Checker Blossom CheckerBlossom     CheckerBlossom  
Checker Heart CheckHeart     CheckHeart  
Dexter Dexter     Dexter  
Domed Hexagonal Barion   DoHeBaDi      
Dråbe på sned - Skewed drop SkewedDrop     SkewedDrop  
Gettogether   Gettogether      
Heptagonal Star HeptStar     HeptStar  
Heptagonal Star 120 index 120HeptStar   120HeptStar  
Hexagonal Barion   HeBaDi      
Wagon Wheel Wagon     Wagon  
Jon's Wheel #2
Wagon Wheel with pavillon turned 1/8 to the crown as suggested by Walt Heitland.		 JonWheel2     JonWheel2  
Portuguese Barion
I doubt this is really a barion, but the idea is the same.
I did this only to se if I could.
The sawtooth girdle will disappear, if you cut very close to the critical angle.		 PortuBarion     PortuBarion
Saksisk slib - Saxon cut   SaxCut      
Triangular Barion   Tribadia      
TriSun   TriSunDi      
Turtle Head TurtleHead     TurtleHead  
Reptile Eye Reptile Eye        
Pharao's Eye Pharao's Eye - Jón Olaf Svane version Pharao's Eye - Jón Olaf Svane version Pharao's Eye - Jón Olaf Svane version  
Big Eye
an experiment in rectangular cc barion and eye cut		 Big Eye     Big Eye  

Århus d. 7. March 2019