Creating tactile surfaces on faces

andrewstevens0 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:42:04 GMT

Hi, I'm looking to 3d print a rubber ring to go around a control knob , I'd really like the outer side of the ring to have a tactile surface. Something as simple in design as adding grooves like the milling on a coin would work.

I tried cheating, using spurgear, but if I go to that many fine teeth, it just spits out a huge list of errors .(unsurprisingly)

I was hoping adding a bumpmap to the appearance modifier, would add a texture to the surface, (Tried the polka dot textured plastic) but that is gone when exporting as an STL file.

I feel like this is likely a simple thing to do, but I'm at a total loss, what am I missing?

Re: Creating tactile surfaces on faces

andrewstevens0 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:57:38 GMT

Nevermind, just found the circular pattern tool

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Creating tactile surfaces on faces

Re: Creating tactile surfaces on faces