Hi,
I am a jeweller and am at last getting the hang of the workflow to make the sort of ring like the one of Jesse's above, building up one section on the circumference with booleans and then arraying it around the ring . I also got carried away with sets of boolean difference holes. When I come to add and subtract these decorations , if I do them all at once it never seems to finish calculating. If I do them one by one it still takes a long time for each.
Is ths what I should expect? It seems to be a fundamental ingredient of ring design, to gradually build up more and more complicated units and then build them together by using mirror or array, so do I expect it to take a long time?
I have not got the newest system but it has over a Gig of memory and a reasonable graphics card, so am I just over impatient!!

regards Tim.