Blender add-on · GPL · Blender 4.x & 5.x

Turn any pattern into real, printable relief.

Pattern Skin tiles patterns onto your models as real geometry you can print — not a shader, not a normal map. Actual relief, raised or engraved, exported to STL or 3MF in one click. And it builds complete printable parts of its own: knurled grip sleeves and knife-handle scales.

Get Pattern Skin

Unlimited machines (GPL) · built-in AI texture generator on your own Replicate key

Dress a model from one sentence.

Scan your model into parts, then type damascus blade, knurled grip, plain guard — each phrase finds its part by name and fills its pattern slot, your library first, AI generation as fallback. Review the filmstrip, hit Bake.

One-line dressing filling the parts filmstrip — One sentence · every part dressed

A filmstrip of your parts.

Every part gets a cell with its own picture and its own pattern slot — a file or a prompt, with the price shown on the control before any paid click. A master pattern with apply-to-all, per-part printability warnings, and a one-click fix.

The parts filmstrip in the Pattern step — Part cells · pattern chips · live pricing

Multi-material, out of the box.

Export a native Bambu/Orca painted 3MF — every part lands on its own filament slot, drag, drop and print. Or standard colour 3MF, object-per-part 3MF, and STL-per-part for every other slicer.

Painted multi-material 3MF imported in Bambu Studio with six filament slots — Painted 3MF · six slots · straight into the slicer

One pattern. Any surface.

Planar · Cylindrical · Swept · twist-free Swept 3D (rotation-minimizing) · Triplanar · Auto. The right mapping for flat panels, tubes, rings, 3D-bending pipes and blocky, organic parts — the pattern rides S-curves without drift.

Relief on an S-curve pipe — S-curve · Swept 3D

Relief on an organic model — Organic · Triplanar

Region-accurate selection.

Smart select

Click one face, stop at the crease

Flood-fills a region and stops at sharp edges — a blade flat, a lid top, one facet of a body.

Band along edges

A clean strip down the cutting edge

Grows an even band along the edges you pick — perfect for edge inlays and spine details.

Isolate part

One part, one click

Separates a connected part (grip, guard, pommel) so you texture exactly that zone.

Select by name

Type what you want selected

“the blade”, “the handle” — AI finds it (your Replicate key, price shown before the click).

Complete printable parts.

Generate a knurled grip sleeve that slips over any handle — 12 knurl presets — or a matched pair of knife scales, from a blank size or traced from your own knife outline. Real parts, not decorations.

The whole relief pipeline, one add-on.

Print-readiness checks — warns when relief is too shallow for your nozzle/layer, fixes it in one click; slicer-aware notes (PrusaSlicer / Orca / Bambu / QIDI).
AI texture generator — your own Replicate key, stored encrypted on your machine; price shown on the button before you generate.
Make-seamless with a tileability score and one-click fix.
Multi-pattern layering — add / max / multiply / overlay.
Tone & levels — gamma, contrast, black/white points.
Lithophane mode — backlit relief from any photo.
Per-region multi-pattern — a different texture per region, baked in one pass.
Variable depth — gradient relief across the part.
~50 object-type presets — projection, tile, depth and finish in one click.
Batch mode — its own texture + settings applied to a whole collection.
One-click export — STL and 3MF, including painted multi-material.
Vectorized numpy core — optional SciPy/GPU speed-ups, guardrails so Blender never freezes.

Runs on stock Blender.

Blender 4.x and 5.x. The core needs numpy only — nothing else to install. Optional speed-ups are one click and never required. AI features are optional and run on your own Replicate account.

Pricing

$27$34

Pattern Skin add-on — GPL, unlimited machines
198-pattern starter library — free download, including 20 animal hides and dragon scale
Built-in AI texture generator — your own Replicate key, stored encrypted
Complete user guide + preset cheat-sheet
Updates & support through Superhive

Get Pattern Skin

We don’t sell texture packs. The 198-pattern library downloads free, and any further textures you generate yourself on your own Replicate key. They’re yours.

FAQ

Is this a shader or real geometry?

Real geometry. It bakes relief into the mesh and exports STL/3MF you can print.

Will it work on my curved or bending part?

Yes — Planar, Cylindrical, Swept, and a twist-free Swept-3D mode cover flat, tube, ring and 3D-bending shapes.

Does multi-material really work in Bambu Studio?

Yes. Pattern Skin writes a native Bambu/Orca painted project 3MF — parts arrive already assigned to filament slots. Standard 3MF, object-per-part and STL-per-part flavours cover other slicers.

Can it make a grip or a knife handle?

Yes — a printable knurled grip sleeve that slips over a handle, and matched knife scales from a blank size or traced from your own knife.

Do I need to pay for AI?

No. The add-on works fully without AI. The optional generator bills your own Replicate account, the price is shown on the button before any paid click, and your key is stored encrypted on your machine.

Can I sell what I make?

Yes. The geometry, STLs, 3MFs, parts and prints you create are yours to use and sell.

Does it need extra Python packages?

No — the core is numpy-only. SciPy/GPU are optional one-click speed-ups. Optional: cairosvg to load SVG patterns directly.

AI-use disclosure

Pattern Skin is human-written software. No AI-generated art is bundled with or sold as part of the add-on. The 198-pattern starter library is a separate, free download — it is not inside the add-on and is not sold; its textures were generated with FLUX.1 [schnell], whose outputs are Apache-2.0 licensed and freely usable, including commercially. The add-on also includes an optional AI texture generator that runs on the customer’s own Replicate account — any images it creates are generated by the customer, on their key, stored locally on their machine.