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Guided Creator: Finishing & Handoff

Once you've added all your pavilion, crown, and girdle tiers in the Guided Creator and you're happy with the live preview, it's time to finish the wizard and move to the main editor.

Click Finish

At the bottom of the left panel, click Finish — Open in Editor. The wizard closes and you're taken directly to the main Developer editor with your design already loaded and rendered in the 3D viewport.

The design name you entered in Setup step 1 is already filled into the Design name field at the top of the editor (you can rename it here if you want).

Inspect your design in the editor

Now you have full access to the tier editor and all the tools from the main Developer:

  • Build panel (left side): Shows every tier you created, with their angles, distances, and indices.
  • Inspect panel (right side): Material card, diagrams, stone report.
  • Viewport: The 3D preview. You can rotate, zoom, pan, switch render modes, and toggle edges/tier colors.

This is where you can:

  • Tweak individual tier angles and distances (the sliders in the Build panel).
  • Rename tiers (click a tier name to edit it).
  • Add or delete tiers.
  • Change the material and view how the refraction and color change.
  • Switch to Realistic render mode to see the color and fire.
  • Frost facets.

Everything the main editor can do is now available to you.

Save the design

Click the Save button in the top toolbar. Your browser downloads a file named after your design — if you named it "Round Brilliant" in Setup, the filename will be round-brilliant.facet.

Note

The filename is auto-slugified: "Round Brilliant" becomes round-brilliant.facet (lowercase, hyphens instead of spaces). You can rename the design before saving (edit the Design name field) to change the filename, or just rename the downloaded file.

The .facet file is a complete, self-contained design. You can:

  • Open it again later (Import button in the toolbar).
  • Share it with someone else to edit.
  • Hand it to the Cutting Assistant tool to plan the cut sequence.
  • Export it to PDF (cutting report).

Handoff options

From the editor, you have several paths forward:

Continue designing

  • Edit tiers: Use the Build panel to tweak angles, distances, or indices.
  • Export diagrams: Click Export → PDF to generate a detailed cutting report, ready to print or email to a cutter.
  • Change the material: The Material dropdown (Inspect panel) lets you see how Diamond, Ruby, Moissanite, etc. would render the same cut.
  • Frost facets: Use Frost Edges to add frosting.

Review the design

  • Switch to Realistic mode: Click the render button to see the stone in full ray-traced color and fire.
  • Use Ray Studio: Click Ray Studio to trace individual light rays through the design and verify the pavilion angle doesn't cause windowing.
  • Check the stone report: In the Inspect panel, the stone report shows facet counts, depth/width ratio, estimated weight, and hardness.

Handoff to cutting

  • PDF report: Click Export → PDF to generate a tier-by-tier cutting diagram. A cutter can follow this step-by-step.
  • The .facet file: Give the saved .facet to a cutter or designer who also uses GemDiagram — they can open it and edit it further.

Save a variation

  • Make edits in the editor.
  • Click Save and rename the design (change the Design name field before saving) to save a new version — e.g., my-round-brilliant-v2.facet.
  • You now have multiple variants saved locally, and you can compare them by opening each one.

What happens if you reload?

The wizard state (name, shape, symmetry, tiers) is not automatically saved. If you reload the browser page while still in the wizard (before clicking Finish), you'll lose all your work.

Once you click Finish and land in the editor, you're safe — the design is loaded, and you can take as long as you want. Just click Save when you're ready to download the .facet file.

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