Do I Have to Approve the CAD Before Production?
Direct answer
Yes. Nothing in your piece is cast, set or polished until you approve the CAD — it is a hard gate, not a courtesy. You get renders of the approved model in front, side and top views, and your confirmation is what releases production. The reason is simple economics: a change costs minutes in CAD but a whole new casting in metal, so approving first protects both of us from building the wrong piece.
How the approval gate actually works
The gate is real, and it exists because of what happens after it. Once you approve, the design moves into the pipeline: a wax or resin model is printed from the CAD, mounted and invested, the wax is burned out and molten metal takes its place. That sequence is unforgiving — a metal piece that does not match intent is not edited, it is scrapped and recast. So the stage immediately before casting is exactly where a deliberate human yes belongs, and that yes is yours on the model.
What you are approving is not an abstract file. You receive renders that read the piece the way you will wear it — the silhouette from the front, the profile that shows setting height and metal thickness, a top view for stone layout — and you confirm proportions, stone sizes and details across them. If something is off, that is the moment to say so: revising here costs minutes, and revising after a cast costs a new piece.
Once you approve, the record of that approval is what production is measured against, and it is what your private project link traces back to — so the question at delivery is not 'did they make something nice' but 'did they make what I approved.' That is the backbone of how we handle every project, and it is also the anchor for any fix, because the approved model is the agreed target.
This is part of our guide on CAD Design.
More questions on this
Can production start before I approve the CAD?+
No. Approval is a hard gate — nothing is cast or set until you confirm the model, because a change costs minutes in CAD and a full recast in metal.
What exactly do I approve?+
Renders of the model from front, side and top — proportions, stone sizes and construction. Your confirmation releases production.
What if the finished piece doesn't match what I approved?+
The approved model is the agreed target your project is checked against, and it is the reference for any fix — which is why capturing your approval before casting matters.
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