RhinoCAM & Mark Zirinsky’s Designs

Mark Zirinsky is a designer and artist out of Denver, Colorado. He has been involved in metal forming for the last 47 years, blending a combination of gem cutting, carving and CNC machining techniques to form his one-of-a-kind works of art. Mark’s designs can take from 3 hours to many years to perfect and up to 150 hours to cut. Mark uses Rhino’s 3D modeling platform, Grasshopper algorithmic modeling, and RhinoCAM for machining. Up to 20% of his pieces are still done using hand carving techniques.

Mark adapts tools and techniques from conventional silver and gold smithing, hand forging, injection mold making and woodworking to name just a few. Each piece is individually designed and crafted in Mark’s private studio.

“The Tree of Light” by Mark Zirinsky, 6061 Aluminum, Dim: 12”x12”x1/4”, Design: 4 weeks, Machining: 45 hrs, Engraving: 35 hrs, hand finishing: 10hrs (Photo by Jeff Scovil)

More fantastic designs by Mark Zirinsky

To see more of Mark’s work visit https://www.cherryartshop.org/artist/mark-zirinsky and http://www.studio-z.org/.

Don LaCourse

Don LaCourse is an Application Engineer with MecSoft Corporation. Don brings over 20 years of experience in CAD/CAM operations in both automotive and mold design applications. Don also has extensive experience in documenting CAD/CAM products and is actively involved with writing the on-line help as well as creating training tutorials for MecSoft's products.