Hi Ed, I'm hoping in the future I might be able to make that kind of "Emboss" function included with the Booleans, something like a "Limit depth" checkbox in Boolean difference that you could enable when doing a Boolean on a solid with closed planar curves as the cutting objects...

- Michael

"...something like a "Limit depth" checkbox in Boolean difference that you could enable when doing a Boolean on a solid with closed planar curves as the cutting objects..."
-M. Gibson

That's what I'm talkin about. :-)
I was actually thinking of how to create an extrude-cut script for limited depth cut-outs, but the above might be even better.