Best Approach For 5mm Inlays

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Hello Forum, looking for advice on best approach to create 5mm thickness inlays into the shaped object. End goal is natural stone, with inlayed brass, both on the horizontal surfaces and the verticals. What would you suggest the best workflow is to achieve this? tia :blush:

5mm Brass Inlays To Horizontal & Vertical Surfaces.3dm (1.2 MB)

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push pull will be your hero here.

  1. select each of the surfaces that you want to inlay and drop them -5mm. (do the rounded fillets last after you PP the flat surfaces)

  2. extractsrf with copy= yes to make copies of the surfaces you just pushed. Join them into a single polysurface ā€œstripā€

  3. use offset from the solids menu and choose corners= sharp with a value of +5mm

assign materials as needed.

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Hi Kyle, yep this works a treat. I wouldnā€™t have even thought to use PushPull for this scenario, in fact itā€™s not something I use a lot, but this has to be the best case Iā€™ve seen to use PushPull, I owe you a beer, cheers :clinking_beer_mugs:

(edit, btw end goal is for CNC machining, transfering .3dm file to EasyStone CAM softwares, so important for good modelling, a nice simple render is a nice addition though)

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fabulous-
inset and push pull have become top shelf modeling tools for me.

It can get a bit fiddly with double compound surfaces but generally itā€™s a very well behaved and useful tool at least here in my own modelsā€¦