Helium polish software
What is new in the Helium Polish 4.51 ?

June 10, 2009 - Helium Polish version 4.51 is released.

  1. New parameters: Radius, Crown height at Bone and Pavilion depth at Bone
  2. Girdle sides and Girdle internal angles values output into reports for straight ages fancies
  3. Extra facets for girdle, crown and pavilion
  4. Illustrated report for step cuts
  5. Small improvements in marquise construction

1. New parameters: Radius, Crown height at Bone and Pavilion depth at Bone

New parameters Radius, Crown height at Bone and Pavilion depth at Bone are available.

See example of the report for round brilliant.

Illustrated report for Brilliant PDF

There are 8 values of Radius of round brilliant correspondent to 4 Main Diameters. Radius 1 and Radius 5 correspondent to Diameter 1 in the report for brilliant, Radius 2 and Radius 6 correspondent to Diameter 2 and so on. The sum of pair of radiuses always equal or less then correspondent diameter in the given direction (see picture).

8 values of Radius and its statistics values: Radius Min, Max, Avg and Dev output into report for round brilliant. For other types of cutting Radius Min, Max, Avg and Dev also output into reports.

New parameters Crown height at Bone and Pavilion depth at Bone are available for round brilliants and round fancies.

2. Girdle sides* and Girdle internal angles output into reports for straight ages fancies

In the previous version the parameters Girdle sides* and Girdle internal angles were available in the pictures only:

In the new version Girdle sides, Girdle internal angles and also new parameter Girdle internal angle deviation from average output into report parameters table and can be exported into txt file.

The parameters Girdle sides, Girdle internal angles and Girdle internal angle deviation from average are available for straight edge fancies: princesses, step cuts, radiants, square radiants and others.

See example of the reports for radiant and square radiant.

Full report for Radiant PDF
Full report for Square Radiant PDF

*Girdle sides - girdle facet length

3. Extra facets for girdle, crown and pavilion

New parameters Extra Facet Girdle / Nat, Extra Facet Crown and Extra Facet Pavilion are available in the reports for all type of cuttings.

Extra Facet / Natural (naif) is a fragment of natural crystal face on the polished diamond surface (as a rule, near the girdle). Natural is usually the result of improper polishing. Indented natural and that visible in face-up examination affects the clarity grade of a diamond.

Extra Facet Girdle / Nat - Extra facet locates near the Girdle and has a size less then 10% of the diamond total height
Extra Facet Crown - Extra facet locates on Crown side and has a size more then 10% of the diamond total height
Extra Facet Pavilion - Extra facet locates on Pavilion side and has a size more then 10% of the diamond total height

See example of the report for marquise with three extra facets on pavilion side.

Full report for Marquise PDF

4. Illustrated report for step cuts

Illustrated report for step cuts is available.

See example of the report for step cut / emerald.

Illustrated report for Emerald PDF

5. Small improvements in marquise construction

Facets junction of marquise is improved from pavilion side in the new version. See example on the picture:

Marquise with pavilion girdle extra facet,
red colour - previous version, blue color - new version

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