Diamra vs RhinoArtisan

RhinoArtisan is on a different layer of the stack from Diamra. It is a parametric jewelry CAD plugin for Rhinoceros, built by 2Shapes Technologies, the same team that built RhinoGold. The lead is Rafael del Molino, who founded RhinoGold and brings 15-plus years of jewelry CAD pedigree.

Most stores that use RhinoArtisan also use something else for the customer-facing side. The two tools are often complementary rather than competitive: RhinoArtisan models the ring, Diamra brings the customer to the ring.

Who RhinoArtisan Is

RhinoArtisan is a workstation plugin, sold under perpetual licenses ranging from €2,400 to €4,000 one-time, with no subscription. It targets bench jewelers, CAD designers, and small studios who already know Rhino and want a jewelry-specific layer on top.

The toolkit is deep. 120-plus jewelry-specific features cover parametric ring design, stone settings, prong generation, finger sizing, wall thickness checks, and technical reports. The output is production-ready STL for casting and 3D printing. There is a 15-day free trial through the 2Shapes site.

Where RhinoArtisan Is Strong

RhinoArtisan is one of the most respected parametric jewelry CAD tools on the market. The team behind RhinoGold has compressed years of jewelry-modeling expertise into the plugin, and it sits inside Rhino, which most jewelry CAD designers already know. There is no retraining tax for an existing Rhino user.

Perpetual licensing is genuinely attractive for a one-person studio that prefers to own its tools outright. A €2,400 to €4,000 one-time fee compares favorably to several years of subscription SaaS, especially for a designer whose workflow does not change much from year to year.

The CAD output is what manufacturers want to receive. Clean STL, clean Rhino 3DM, with parametric history a designer can iterate on. That is a different category of value from a customer-facing render.

The trade-off is that it does not solve the problem Diamra solves. RhinoArtisan is not customer-facing. A customer cannot describe a ring in plain English and watch it appear. The user is a trained CAD operator. There is no storefront, no lead capture, no marketing, no order management.

Where Diamra Is Different

Diamra is the customer-facing layer that RhinoArtisan is not designed to be. A store launches a branded storefront on its own subdomain. A customer arrives, describes a piece in their own words or uploads inspiration, and Diamra generates a concept with an instant material estimate. That happens without a CAD operator on call.

Once the customer approves the concept and places the order, Diamra carries it through Craft Space: setting, QC, delivery, and customer messaging in one tool. If the store wants to model the final production geometry in RhinoArtisan and hand off STL to its caster, that is fine. The two tools share work; they do not overlap.

Marketing is built in: a blog, SEO content, a newsletter, social assets, and customer reviews live in the same product. The goal is to drive new custom inquiries, not just to model the ones already coming in.

Which Platform Fits Which Jeweler?

RhinoArtisan fits the studio that has trained CAD designers and wants the deepest, most parametric jewelry modeling environment Rhino can offer. It also fits the small studio that prefers a perpetual license to subscription software.

Diamra fits the jeweler who wants a customer-facing AI design experience on their own branded website, with estimates, order management, and marketing in one product. Many stores benefit from running both: Diamra in front of the customer, RhinoArtisan in front of the designer.

See how Diamra approaches custom design, or check the pricing if you want to try it with your own store.