Hello All,
I'm trying to take an object and color a parallelogram shaped pattern on it using my 3d printer. The printer slicer is pretty dumb, so the best way to do this is to make the section I want another color its own body then import the bodies together in space then in my slicer I simply say this body is this color and that body is that color. This is trivial on flat surfaces. Draw something, extrude down, tell it it's a new body, split, and now you have a perfectly fitting plug you tell the printer is another color.
The problem is that I can't get this to work on a complex surface. As an example I have I have a block with a feature cut in it and I'd like this parallelogram shape that is projected onto the surface to be pushed in 1mm (4 layers) following the surface shape and become its own body.
I tried to do this with emboss, but that doesn't seem to make a body and the cut only grabs the rounded part not the flat face, so I tried with a projection onto the face but now I can only select the flat face, and not the rounded segment.
I'm not sure the incantation to make this work. Anyone have any ideas? I attached the drawing if that helps.
Thanks!
