Toolmaker wish: polysurface with different surfaces colors

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

@a.p.haythornthwaite

just following up to see if there was ever any development / conclusion on being able to assign different display color to independent surfaces of a joined Polysurface?

Hi Andrew - that discussion was continued here:

Still need to be able to change colours of polysurface faces

Please take a look at this discussion from 4 or 5 years ago: This is still something that we need, especially doing our toolpaths in RhinoCAM, where we don’t need to deal with exporting STEP and losing the colours (the more complex projects are surface files that are exported via IGES to WorkNC). I found an example of how this could work in Rhino. I apologize in advance for linking to a somewhat competitive product, but I think he explains this better than I could starting at around 4:20: …

The feature request is on our list as RH-37306.
-wim