How Many Design Revisions Can I Make?
Direct answer
There is no fixed quota, and that is deliberate. Reasonable revisions within the agreed design scope are part of the service — we iterate in CAD, where changes cost minutes rather than metal. The real boundary is the approval gate: revise freely until you approve, because once you approve and we cast, moving the design again is re-work and re-costs. So the practical limit is 'as many as you need before approval,' not a number.
Why the limit is the gate, not a count
The reason we do not meter revisions is that, before production, they are cheap for both sides. A change to proportion, stone size or a detail in the CAD is an edit, and the next renders cost nothing extra to show you. Iterating here is exactly the point of doing the design stage in CAD rather than committing straight to a casting — it is where 'make the band a little heavier' or 'change this to a claw setting' belongs. Holding back on revisions at this stage would only risk approving something you were not sure about.
What changes everything is your approval. Approving the CAD is the signal to print the wax, invest the mold and pour the metal. After that a design change is not a click in a model — it is a new casting, new bench time and new material, so it re-costs and adds time. That is not a penalty; it is the honest line between cheap-to-change and expensive-to-change, and it is precisely why nothing is cast until you have confirmed the design.
The other boundary is scope. 'Reasonable revisions' means edits to the piece you described, not a new project: iterating a ring you approved the concept for is normal, while swapping it for a different design mid-stream is effectively a new quote. A good way to think of it: bring us your honest first reactions and 'one more tweak' instincts before approval — that is what the stage is for — and let approval mark the point where the design stops moving.
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This is part of our guide on CAD Design.
More questions on this
Do you charge for changes before I approve the CAD?+
Reasonable revisions within the agreed scope are part of the service — the design conversation happens in CAD, where edits are cheap.
What happens if I change the design after approving?+
It becomes re-work: a new casting and bench time, so it re-costs and adds time. That is why approval is a deliberate gate, not a formality.
Is there a hard limit on how many rounds?+
Not a fixed number before approval. The practical limits are reasonableness within your agreed scope and the approval point itself.
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