Tulip

Tulip

The Tulip command builds a petal-shaped setting around a gem, based on a curved rail of prongs that bows outward like a tulip flower, with an optional ornament bridging the gaps between petals. Select one or more diamonds or gemstones and the command generates the setting for each, sized and positioned to fit the selected gem.

The command panel is organized in two tabs: Setting, which shapes the petals themselves, and Ornament, which adds decoration between them.

Setting

• Mode: The petal tip style — Round for a smooth rounded petal, or Claw for an extended grabbing claw over the stone.
• Count: The number of petals/prongs around the gem — 4 or 6.
• Diameter: The pipe diameter of the petal tube.
• Gem Inside: Radial offset of the tube from the girdle — 0 means the tube is tangent to the stone.
• Height: Vertical scale of the whole setting.
• Move in Z: Vertical offset of the whole setting.
• Bulge width: How far each petal’s belly bows outward.
• Bulge Inside: Radial depth of the petal’s bulge (in or out).
• Extension for Manufacturing: Extra material added above the gem when Manufacturing mode is active in the Outliner panel, for casting and setting.
• Bulge spread: How far the bulge extends up and down the petal from its center, as a percentage.
• Bulge close bottom / Bulge close top: How much the petal closes in at the bottom and top, as percentages.

Claw (only when Mode is Claw): Cap distance pulls the claw tip toward the stone’s center, Cap height moves the tip up or down, and Tip width sets how much width remains at the very tip.

Ornament

Bridges the gap between two neighboring petals with decorative metal.

• Type: None, Union (an open arch running from one petal over the center to the mirrored point on the next), or Leaf (a closed leaf-shaped outline closing at the bottom where the petals meet).
• Placement: Which gaps get the ornament — Y axis, X axis, or Both. On an asymmetric gem (Oval, Marquise, …) a fresh Tulip defaults to the X axis only, with per-axis editing turned on.
• Diameter: The ornament tube diameter.

Union: Attach position sets where along the petal rail the arch grabs on (0 at the base, 1 at the tip), Arch height sets how high the arch bows over the center, and Tip inside moves the arch’s apex relative to the girdle.

Leaf: Axis chooses between one shared outline for both axes or Individual X / Y outlines when Placement is Both. Each outline (shown as its own X Axis / Y Axis block when individual) is shaped with Length, Tips aperture, Opening, Curvature position, Smooth, Move in Z, Top inside, Top Z, Bottom inside, Bottom Z and Middle inside.