Advanced Signet Ring

Advanced Signet Ring

Advanced Signet Ring builds a signet — the flat-topped ring made to carry a seal, a crest or an engraving. It takes the classic Signet construction and adds a second control over the silhouette: besides the top face and the three band sections, you give it a lateral profile, the curve seen from the side, which decides how the band grows from the bottom of the ring up into the table.

That side curve is what separates a heavy, straight-shouldered gentleman’s signet from a slim one that tapers away under the finger, without touching any of the front measurements.

Running the command opens the gallery of saved Advanced Signet elements. Click one to preview it in the viewport, double-click it to open its parameters, or press Edit in the header to start from the ring shown in the viewport.

Finger Size

Sets the ring size everything else is built from.

Parameters

The parameters are split into two tabs.

Frontal

The top face and the sections of the band, seen from the front.

• Mode: Circle makes the top a plain circle — the profile picker disappears and the single size field is labelled Diameter. Custom Shape unlocks the profile picker below and gives you separate Width and Height.
• Profile: the outline of the top face. Pick one from the library or open the editor to draw your own. Visible in Custom Shape mode only.
• Width: the width of the top face (its Diameter in Circle mode).
• Height: the height of the top face. Hidden in Circle mode, where the diameter covers both.
• Height position: how far the top face sits above the finger hole — in practice, the thickness of the head.
• Rotation: turns the top face on the ring, in degrees.
• Width bottom profile: the width of the band at the bottom of the ring.
• Height bottom profile: the thickness of the band at the bottom.
• Height middle profile: the thickness of the band at the sides, halfway between the bottom and the head.

Five of these are also handles in the viewport, so you can size the ring by eye: the top face Width and Height (centred on the head), the Height position (rising from the top of the finger hole), and the Width bottom profile and Height bottom profile at the bottom of the ring, plus the Height middle profile at the side.

Recess

Two icon buttons choose the finish of the underside of the head: flat, or hollowed out. With the recess on, two parameters appear:

• Thickness: the wall of metal left under the table.
• Inner height: how deep the hollow goes into the head.

Lateral

• Lateral profile: the side silhouette of the ring — the curve the band follows as it climbs from the bottom into the head. Pick one from the library or edit it in place, exactly like the front profile.

Working with the panel

• Refresh in the header recomputes the preview; the ring is built in the background while you keep adjusting.
• Save defaults stores the current parameters as the starting point for the next run. Right-click the same button to clear them and go back to the factory values.
• Save stores the current ring as a local element, so it appears in the gallery next time.
• Accept bakes the signet. If it is pressed while the preview is still computing, or before one has resolved, the panel asks you to wait or to refresh first.