Class Ring

Class Ring

Class Ring builds the graduation-ring silhouette in one go: the heavy shank that widens from the bottom into two flat sides, the raised stand on top, and the stone sitting on it. It is the shape used for school, college and championship rings, and the same construction works for any signet-like ring with a bezel-set stone on a built-up head.

The stone is part of the ring, not a separate object: it is regenerated from the ring’s own parameters every time, so its seat and the metal around it always agree.

Running the command opens the gallery of saved Class Ring elements. Click one to preview it, 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. The shank and the stand are built off that circle, so set it first.

Main Stone

• Stone type: Gemstone puts a faceted stone on the seat; Cabochon puts a domed one.
• Stone shape: Round, Oval or Cushion. The choice also drives the shape of the stand below it. On Round the top Width field disappears and the top Height field takes over both dimensions, since the outline is a circle.
• Move in Z: raises or sinks the stone relative to its seat. Negative values push it into the head, positive ones lift it out.
• Cabochon Height: the dome height of the stone. Visible only in Cabochon mode; at or below zero the dome falls back to an automatic proportion — half the shorter side of the seat.

Parameters

The parameters are split into two tabs.

Top

The head: the stand and the seat the stone sits on.

• Height: one semi-axis of the seat. On a Round stone this field is labelled Height/Width and controls both.
• Width: the other semi-axis of the seat. Hidden on Round stones.
• Stand Height: how far the stand rises before the seat.
• Depth: how deeply the top is stepped down towards the sides — the chamfer that takes the head into the flat faces of the ring.
• Offset: the margin between the seat outline and the base of the top. Larger values pull the base in towards the stone; pushed too far the base collapses and the command tells you the offset is invalid.

Shank

The band itself.

• Height: the height of the top surface of the shank, where it meets the head.
• Angle: the flare of the sides as they climb from the bottom of the ring towards the head.
• Bottom Height: the thickness of the band at the bottom of the finger hole.
• Bottom Width: the half-width of the band at the bottom — the profile is mirrored, so the band is twice this value across.
• Side Width: how far the flat sides stand out from the finger hole. This is the metal that carries the side engraving.

Handles in the viewport

Four of these values also have handles you can drag directly on the ring, and they stay in sync with the fields:

• the two semi-axes of the stone on its seat (green and red), which follow the stone’s Move in Z;
• the Bottom Height hanging from the bottom of the finger hole (blue);
• the Bottom Width, centred on the symmetry plane and spanning the full width of the band (red);
• the Side Width, growing outwards from the side of the finger hole (orange).

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.
• Save stores the current ring as a local element for the gallery.
• Accept bakes the ring with the stone attached to it. If it is pressed before a preview has resolved, the panel asks you to refresh first.