On curved walls too
The selected faces get their own orientation. So the pattern follows the curve instead of lying flat on top of it.
Crown Surface
Put a logo or a pattern on any face, curved ones included.
Patterns, logos and hole grids in Blender, with no cleanup on the printed part.
Put a logo or a line of text on a curved face. Cut honeycombs or a hole pattern through a curved wall. Get a pattern onto a printed part that needs no cleanup afterwards.
Crown Surface puts both into Blender as sliders: the relief on the face you point at, and the cut through that same wall.
Crown Surface, 19 euro.
On the face you point at.
Select faces in edit mode, set the direction, done. The pattern sits right on tilted and curved walls too.
Shape changed, outline again
If you change the shape later, one button reads the outline again. You don’t have to redo the selection.
Five patterns, seven presets.
Each pattern only shows the sliders that belong to it. Whatever doesn’t apply is hidden.
Fins to rings
Fins, waves, moiré, spiral and rings, with sliders such as amplitude, wavelength, rotation and phase.
Your logo as an SVG
Select a face, load an SVG. Size, rotation and depth stay sliders afterwards. The SVG needs filled shapes.
Cut through with a web.
Slots, honeycomb, holes and flowing lines, through a curved wall. Six presets.
Cell width and web apart
Both can be set on their own. So the wall stays load-bearing instead of turning into a net.
Stays part of the model
Everything stays a modifier and moves along when you change the shape. Nothing gets baked into an STL.
The proof
Tested on Blender 4.5 LTS and 5.2 LTS. Every release runs a headless suite on both versions: it builds the geometry, measures volume and vertex count and compares them against the expected values. Two building blocks only exist from 5.2 on; where they are missing the add-on takes a different route, detected by the block itself and not by the version number.
Or all of it together
Crown Surface is part of Crown Works as well, next to fits, enclosures and the spiral toolpaths of Crown G-Code. Both single tools together cost 19 euro twice; the suite is 39 euro and has everything in it.
To Crown WorksRelief and cut in one tool.
- Tested on Blender 4.5 LTS and 5.2 LTS
- Test run measures volume and vertices
- Runs on its own, also part of Crown Works
- Crown Surface, 19 euro
From the Crown series
Crown Surface is part of Crown Works as well. Crown&Paste is a keyboard for the iPhone.
Questions that come up
Can I use my own logo?
Yes, as an SVG. Two clicks: pick the face, load the logo. Size, rotation and depth are sliders after that. The SVG needs filled shapes; outlines on their own cannot be stamped.
Does it work on curved faces?
Yes. The selected faces form their own working frame, so the pattern sits correctly on a slanted or curved wall instead of lying flat across it.
How is this different from the free tools?
Those work on a finished STL and bake the result in. Here it stays part of the model, sits on the face you point at, and can cut through the wall as well.
Do I have to clean up the printed part?
That depends on your printer and on the pattern. The whole idea is that the structure carries the surface instead of the layer lines showing through.
Which Blender versions are supported?
Tested on 4.5 LTS and 5.2 LTS. Every release runs the headless suite on both versions and compares the measured geometry against the expected values.
Do I need Crown Works as well?
No. Crown Surface runs on its own. It is also part of Crown Works, and both single tools together cost 19 euro twice, while the suite is 39 euro and contains everything.
