Basket Weave

Basket Weave is the texture you reach for when a flat face looks unfinished but a plain grid looks cheap. It tiles a checkerboard across the face you pick; every cell holds a bundle of parallel bars, and the bundles alternate between horizontal and vertical from one cell to the next, so your eye reads the over-under rhythm of a woven basket. It is real geometry, not a decal — generated at regeneration time from the face's own bounding box, so it re-tiles itself whenever the part changes. Cell sets the pitch of one woven square: 6 to 10 mm feels fine and fabric-like, 15 to 25 mm reads as real wicker. Bars per cell decides how many strips are packed into that pitch, Gap opens the spacing between them, Rotation spins the weave for a diagonal basket, and Depth sets the relief. Engrave sinks the bars into the host — safest for a decorative panel, no overhangs. Emboss raises them, which is what you want for grip: the woven surface feels genuinely tactile and hides layer lines on large flat walls. Keep Gap at roughly twice your nozzle width — around 0.8 mm on a 0.4 mm nozzle, 1 to 1.5 mm if the channels should stay visibly open. Below about 8 mm of Cell, drop Bars per cell to 2 or 3 so the slicer does not merge them into a flat patch. Good for enclosure lids and panels, planter walls, handle and grip zones, drawer fronts, coasters, lamp shades, and any large flat face that would otherwise show every layer line.