Creating colored surfaces

[battlehands]

I have a shaft designed. I need to indicate markings on the shaft that will be in color. One of the markings needs to run the length of the shaft, on top of the shaft. The others need to be wrapped around the shaft and spaced some distance apart.

To create the top marker, I used a split surface, but this creates a split on the top and bottom of the shaft.

For the side markings I used and extrusion and a linear pattern. This is not good, because there should not be any thickness to the shaft.

Is there an easier or better way to accomplish this?

I attached an image of what I have currently. Again, I need there to be no thickness off of the shaft for the green bands.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Use the Wrap function with the Scribe option.

 

[battlehands]

That worked for the white line on top of the shaft, as well as one side of the green markings. When I try to wrap the green markings on the other side of the shaft they dont show up.

I cant get the other side to mirror or linear pattern properly.

Please advise.

 

[battlehands]

I was able to fix it. Thank you for the help.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Sometimes you just have to cheat.

You could use zero thickness surfaces to create the outlines.

How will the markings be created in real life? They will probably have some thickness or depth. Can you not live with .0001mm or .000004"?