Trilogy Bezels

Trilogy Bezels

The Trilogy Bezels command wraps every gem of a trilogy in its own bezel: one bezel for the center stone and one shared by the two side stones. It reuses the whole Bezel engine — profile, girdle rim, support post, cutters and air gaps — applied gem by gem, so a full rub-over trilogy is a single command away.

The command works on a Three Stones element. Run it and pick one of the three gems: the set is resolved from its group. If the picked gem does not belong to a Three Stones element, the command asks for the three gems manually and classifies center and sides by their positions. Any gem shape is accepted.

The panel opens on the element library: pick one of the saved Trilogy Bezels designs, or click the pen icon to start editing.

Center and Side tabs

Two tabs at the top of Parameters switch between the center bezel and the side bezels.

By default the side bezels simply copy the center one, and the Side tab shows a note saying so. Turn on Edit separately in that tab to give the sides their own values — useful when a much smaller side stone needs a thinner wall than the center.

Everything below belongs to whichever bezel is active.

• Profile: The bezel profile taken from your bezel asset library, shown with its preview.
• Width and Height: Thickness and height of the bezel wall.
• Girdle Height and Girdle Width: The rim that folds over the girdle of the stone.
• Gem Inside: How far the bezel covers the stone.
• Cut by ring size: Trims the bottom of the bezel to the finger circle, so it does not invade the ring. It belongs to each bezel: with Edit separately off it applies to all three, with it on the center and the sides are controlled apart.

Support

A collapsible section that adds posts underneath the bezel. It starts folded and opens by itself if the bezel already carries a support.

• Post support: How many posts, from None up to 6.
• Width and Thickness: Section of the posts.

Cutter and Air Gap

A second collapsible section, with two sub-tabs that share the same set of controls: cutters (the openings cut through the bezel wall) and air gaps.

• Choose the layout with the four buttons: none, 4, 6, or a free number.
• Num of Cutters / Num of Airgaps: The count when you pick the free option.
• Profile: The closed profile used as the section of the cut, with its preview.
• Width and Height: Size of each cut.
• Move in Z: Raises or lowers the cuts on the bezel wall.
• Rotate: Turns each cut around its own axis.
• Vertical Rotation: Tilts each cut vertically.
• Global Rotation: Turns the whole ring of cuts around the stone, so you can align them with the prong-free areas.

Visualization

Four toggles — Hide Center Gem, Hide Side Gems, Hide Center Bezel and Hide Side Bezels — let you inspect one part without the rest in the way. They are view aids only: the complete piece is always computed when you accept.

Stones

The Stones expander is the full Three Stones editor: shape, material, carats, distance above ring and rotation for the center stone, plus angle and rotation Y for the sides. While the panel is open the three gems of the document are hidden and drawn by the preview; on Accept the whole set is re-baked with its bezels.

Saving your work

Save defaults in the panel header stores the current configuration as the starting point for the next run (right-click to restore the factory values), and the save button stores the design as a named preset in the element library so it can be reused on any other trilogy.