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 Post subject: Require Fully Automatic Faceting Machine with 3D software
PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 12:34 pm 
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I need manufacturers contact info on Fully Automatic Faceting Machine with 3D operating software system for rough color gemstones .

Planning to set up Lapidary unit for colored gemstones.

Kindly anybody can help me pls.


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What species of stones will you be working with?

What shapes and sizes are planning to produce?

Where are you located?


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What species of stones will you be working with?

What shapes and sizes are planning to produce?

Where are you located?

Yes would be useful information.

Also define your meaning of fully automated, as well as 3D.

I own and operate a Jang801, and there is nothing fully automated about it. I believe there are more modern machines out there.

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Can you actually get an acceptable polish on that Jang801? Is it tough to program? Just interested since this seems like a difficult thing to do given the nature of gem stones.

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The key to polishing on automatic machines is the lap and compound used.

That is one of the reasons most commercial stones only get a 14K final polish. It is aggressive enough to actually place and ut the facets, and leave an acceptably bright 14K finish. So "brillianteering" (diamond terminology), and polishing are actually the same step. m This is also the way hand cutting also works in many high production shops.

For those unfamiliar with the term brillianteering.

https://www.whiteflash.com/about-diamon ... g-1616.htm


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Can you actually get an acceptable polish on that Jang801? Is it tough to program? Just interested since this seems like a difficult thing to do given the nature of gem stones.

Sure, as good as by hand. Same processes applies. Software runs gemcad files. As the index and lap rotation run counter-clockwise and no reversing direction of the lap some angles above 55 degrees can be problematic with polishing. Reversing the lap direction would eleviate it, but I have found alternative methods to resolve.

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Thank you for your concern dear friends,

Rough Corundums, rough Garnets, rough Aquamarine, rough citrine, topaz, amethysts are the raw materials used for faceting.

Sizes will be up-to 20 mm.

Planning to set up Lapidary unit in Bangalore, India.

3D means - three dimensional view
In the fully automatic faceting machines helps in inclusion mapping in rough before faceting.

Even Jang machines(advanced) do the same.

But I am not getting the contact details of suppliers of these machines.

Hoping kind and positive response pls


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gemvenkat wrote:
Planning to set up Lapidary unit in Bangalore, India.

3D means - three dimensional view
In the fully automatic faceting machines helps in inclusion mapping in rough before faceting.

Even Jang machines(advanced) do the same.

But I am not getting the contact details of suppliers of these machines.

Hoping kind and positive response pls

I am not aware of any AI Jang machines that plot rough to avoid problem areas. The models I know of have a two dimensional display of the set facets it is currently cutting.

I would suspect that if there was something out there it would be presented for purchasing. I remember watching some youtube videos a few years ago about machines claiming to do what your asking but they appeared to be pretty much like Jang(advanced).

I can not count the number of times I have been approached by someone wanting me to participate in reverse engineering the Jang 801 not so much the hardware but the software.

If you know Jang's why not contact?

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The diamond industry does have machines that plot inclusions and calculate the best cutting solutions. I knw some people in Idar have used such machines for colored stones.

Almost all the diamond cutting factories in India now use such tools.

Look at Sarine Technologies from Israel who are the leaders in this field.

https://sarine.com/

From the species, and sizes you say you will be cutting I don't believe that automated cutting is an appropriate path for you to follow.


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glhays wrote:
I am not aware of any AI Jang machines that plot rough to avoid problem areas. The models I know of have a two dimensional display of the set facets it is currently cutting.

I would suspect that if there was something out there it would be presented for purchasing. I remember watching some youtube videos a few years ago about machines claiming to do what your asking but they appeared to be pretty much like Jang(advanced).

I can not count the number of times I have been approached by someone wanting me to participate in reverse engineering the Jang 801 not so much the hardware but the software.

If you know Jang's why not contact?


Planning to set up Lapidary unit in Bangalore, India.

3D means - three dimensional view
In the fully automatic faceting machines helps in inclusion mapping in rough before faceting.

Even Jang machines(advanced) do the same.

But I am not getting the contact details of suppliers of these machines.

Hoping kind and positive response pls


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Saw an interesting article quite some time ago (like 2 decades?) about an Israeli company using computerized machines to cut emeralds. They might have moved forward a lot since then, unless cheap labor elsewhere put them out of business...

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Just like diamond cutting, The emerald cutting industry is now predominantly in India.


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gemvenkat wrote:
glhays wrote:
I am not aware of any AI Jang machines that plot rough to avoid problem areas. The models I know of have a two dimensional display of the set facets it is currently cutting.

I would suspect that if there was something out there it would be presented for purchasing. I remember watching some youtube videos a few years ago about machines claiming to do what your asking but they appeared to be pretty much like Jang(advanced).

I can not count the number of times I have been approached by someone wanting me to participate in reverse engineering the Jang 801 not so much the hardware but the software.

If you know Jang's why not contact?


Planning to set up Lapidary unit in Bangalore, India.

3D means - three dimensional view
In the fully automatic faceting machines helps in inclusion mapping in rough before faceting.

Even Jang machines(advanced) do the same.

But I am not getting the contact details of suppliers of these machines.

Hoping kind and positive response pls


All due respect.....Repeating the same is not an answer.

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1bwana1 wrote:
Just like diamond cutting, The emerald cutting industry is now predominantly in India.


Steve if incase this is true and I believe it is as well, why would the OP be in search of an Ai machine to put in service in the same arena?
I know in fact that Jang placed many automated faceting machines for cutting melee sizes at 100-200 pieces a pop in India.

To my knowledge there is no machine that is fully automated to be a do all facets of faceting. Cutting, Polishing even preforming can be automated.

I can be wrong, please someone point me to that robot.

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