Maintaining the yield of the rough diamond is the cutters most important job. His second job is to create a beautiful diamond, however, to do this usually requires a sacrifice in yield. This balancing act of maintaining yield and beauty is a dilemma cutters face every day. No technology in the world can offer a cutter as much assistance in the balance of yield and beauty as DTI technology can.

Through the access to databases containing thousands of cut proportion combinations for every cut style, including the standard round, standard ovals, marquises, princess’, radiants’, pears, emerald and virtually any newly created cut, a cutter has the ability to know what a diamond will look like before ever cutting it. Nothing has ever existed that provides this much information to assist cutters.

This process can be used on an individual stone-by-stone basis where time will allow, such as with a large piece of rough. Or the process can be use for smaller stones or in time sensitive production by grouping the rough into categories based on certain geometric shapes to fit certain types of proportions.

In either case rough is maximized while maintaining beauty.

Cutter Provides 1. Description of rough shape to determine maximum proportions that fit.		DTI Provides DTI technology searches Database for given facet pattern and Determines which proportions fit within the given rough and have the minimum beauty components/index the cutter desires. Cutter then decides which proportions to use. And DTI technology produces the cutting parameters shown below.
2. Facet Pattern	3. Minimum Desired Beauty Component Rating™ & Cut Beauty Index™