I have a dozen 3D modelers, some now defunct products,  in hopes someday of making my own props.   I have been able to make stuff with Boolean operations in TrueSpace, but it's most recent updates have virtually made that operation no longer possible.   I have tried Hexagon, and Shade, and the menus are too abstruse for the digitally challenged.

What is the simplest one around?  If I could import stuff into an app and do Boolean operations,  I would be happy.  

 

Have you tried Anim8or?  It's a free open source modeler, with a broad based community support.  Gerald Day uses it in making his props,  available here in Renderosity, so that might serve as one recommendation.  A quick Yahoo search will easily point you towards its download page.  Along with the app, there is a free PDFoperators  manual included in a seperate zip file.  There are also numerous how-to tutorials that you can refer to.
Hope this helps.
Yours truly,
David P. Hoadley

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I use AoI to cobble crude toys for Vicki. I haven't explored 90% of the leatures like the node based materials or the renderer but the basics are the easiest I've found. It's a Java application so it runs on just about anything yet it is quite fast enough for most things I've tried. Fine for creating models and it imports/exports .obj format but I'm not sure about whether or not it fiddles with the geometry in a way that might mess up morphs. You'll just have to experiment.

I will give this a whirl, thanks

I would suggest Wings3D. Free and a very big forum and following here.

I still use it with my other modelers. I find I can still do some things faster with it.  

Thanks again,  I will give that a try 2

I'll second Wings 3D as easy to use, has a lot of tools and built in primitives, doesn't take a lot
of hard drive space, and is highly compatable with Poser.