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Bas-relief wood carving of a mother bear and two cubs in a pine forest inside a round bark-edged plaque.
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Mother Bear and Two Cubs Forest Round Relief STL

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📐 Design facts
Carving it at your size
Carving size
8 × 7.8 in (203 × 198 mm)
Relief depth
0.57 in (14.4 mm)
Board thickness
1 in or thicker
Rough with
1/8 in end mill, 40% stepover
Finish with
1/16 in tapered ball nose, 10% stepover
Estimated carve time
about 5 h 55 min (roughing 1 h 15 min, finishing 4 h 40 min)
Carving size
12 × 11.7 in (305 × 296 mm)
Relief depth
0.85 in (21.6 mm)
Board thickness
1.25 in or thicker
Rough with
1/4 in end mill, 40% stepover
Finish with
1/8 in ball nose, 10% stepover
Estimated carve time
about 6 h 20 min (roughing 1 h 5 min, finishing 5 h 15 min)
Carving size
18 × 17.5 in (457 × 445 mm)
Relief depth
1.3 in (32.4 mm)
Board thickness
1.75 in or thicker
Rough with
1/4 in end mill, 40% stepover
Finish with
1/8 in ball nose, 10% stepover
Estimated carve time
about 15 h 30 min (roughing 3 h 35 min, finishing 11 h 50 min)
Carving size
24 × 23.3 in (610 × 593 mm)
Relief depth
1.7 in (43.3 mm)
Board thickness
2 in or thicker
Rough with
1/4 in end mill, 40% stepover
Finish with
1/4 in ball nose (1/8 in for the finest detail, about twice as long), 10% stepover
Estimated carve time
about 19 h 5 min (roughing 8 h 35 min, finishing 10 h 35 min)
Carving size
10.8 × 10.5 in (275 × 268 mm)
Relief depth
0.77 in (19.5 mm)
Board thickness
1.25 in or thicker
Rough with
1/4 in end mill, 40% stepover
Finish with
1/8 in ball nose, 10% stepover
Estimated carve time
about 5 h 5 min (roughing 45 min, finishing 4 h 20 min)

Estimates for a mid-size hobby machine (Shapeoko, X-Carve, Onefinity class). Scaling all three axes together keeps the depth in proportion; for thinner stock scale Z on its own. Hardwoods with fine grain (cherry, hard maple, walnut, basswood) hold this detail best. Check your exact setup in Will it cut, free, nothing uploaded.

How we estimate carve time

Finishing is one raster pass over the whole carving with the ball nose shown, at 10% stepover and half of a 1,800 mm/min (71 in/min) feed. Roughing assumes about 45% of the block above the base is waste, cleared with the end mill shown at 40% stepover and 3 mm per pass (1.5 mm for the 1/8 in end mill) at the full feed. The model leaves out acceleration, tool changes and moves between passes, so a real job usually takes somewhat longer. Times are rounded to 5 minutes.

File format
STL only decimated high-quality mesh, binary STL
Model size as supplied
275.1 × 267.6 × 19.52 mm
Shape
landscape, 1.028:1
Carve depth
7.1% of the width
Mesh
2,032,810 triangles · 96.9 MB
Base
flat and sitting at zero, ready to machine

Opens directly in Aspire, VCarve Pro, Carveco, ArtCAM and Fusion 360, and in any slicer for 3D printing. For a laser, the relief is first turned into a greyscale depth image, which our Laser Studio app does from this STL. STL only, no OBJ or DXF: the DXF files used in CNC work hold 2D outlines, not the 3D relief surface. Scale it to whatever panel you are cutting. Scaling all three axes together keeps the depth in proportion; scale Z on its own for a shallower carve. How to open it in your software.

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About this design

A mother bear stands watch while her two cubs settle in beneath tall pines, all framed inside a round slice of timber with bark still ringing the edge. There is a quiet, protective feeling to this scene, the kind of woodland moment that makes people stop and look closer. Carve it once and you will understand why the forest cabin crowd keeps coming back to designs like this. This is a high-detail bas-relief STL built for clean cutting. The depth runs from the deep shadows behind the trees up to the raised fur on the bears, so the toolpaths read with real dimension once the dust is blown off. Every strand of fur, every layer of pine needles, and the rough bark border all hold their detail. The file is tested and ready for Aspire, VCarve Pro, Carveco, ArtCAM, and Fusion 360, and it runs on a CNC router, a laser engraver, or a 3D printer. For the best surface, rough it out with a 6mm end mill at 40 percent stepover, then come back with a 3mm ball nose at ten percent stepover to pull out the fine fur and the soft forest background. Cut it in walnut, maple, MDF, or cast it in resin for round wall plaques, lodge signs, mantel pieces, or one-of-a-kind gifts for hunters and nature lovers. You get an instant digital download with commercial use included, so carve it for your own walls and sell what you make at shows and markets. Add it to your cart, send it to your machine, and let the bears come to life in wood.
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