#Multi-material

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Rendered 3D print of the Crickley Hill ground model, 198 by 145 by 71 mm, looking north-east up the escarpment. Brown superficial deposits cover the western slope, orange Inferior Oolite forms the scarp and plateau, pale yellow Great Oolite caps the south-east, and the side walls show a band of olive Bridport Sand over blue-grey Lias mudstones.

Tutorial Python Part 7 of 7

3D-print a geological ground model: one watertight STL per stratum

Turn the kriged stratum surfaces from Part 5 into a multi-material 3D print of the Cotswold escarpment at Crickley Hill. Cut a window, decide what is too thin to print, build one solid per unit with mesh booleans, prove the parts fit exactly and are watertight, and write five STLs and a colour 3MF for AMS and MMU printers.

Advanced 11 min read 15 November 2026

Tutorial Python Part 3 of 5

Multi-colour 3D-printed terrain with Python: one STL per colour for AMS and MMU printers

Split a 3D-printed model of Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) into four watertight colour parts (water, woodland, open ground and high ground) from Copernicus GLO-30 and ESA WorldCover, remove specks too small to print, and write STLs and a 3MF for a Bambu Lab AMS or Prusa MMU.

Advanced 10 min read 13 November 2026