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Carved wood relief of a bighorn ram with curled horns resting above a bird's nest, mountains and pines behind.
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Bighorn Ram Resting Above a Bird's Nest, Mountain Relief STL

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📐 Design facts
Carving it at your size
Carving size
8 × 6.5 in (203 × 166 mm)
Relief depth
0.76 in (19.2 mm)
Board thickness
1.25 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 20 min (roughing 1 h 25 min, finishing 3 h 55 min)
Carving size
12 × 9.8 in (305 × 249 mm)
Relief depth
1.1 in (28.8 mm)
Board thickness
1.5 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 40 min (roughing 1 h 10 min, finishing 4 h 25 min)
Carving size
18 × 14.7 in (457 × 374 mm)
Relief depth
1.7 in (43.2 mm)
Board thickness
2 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 14 h (roughing 4 h, finishing 10 h)
Carving size
24 × 19.6 in (610 × 499 mm)
Relief depth
2.3 in (57.6 mm)
Board thickness
3 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 18 h 25 min (roughing 9 h 35 min, finishing 8 h 50 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
455.5 × 372.5 × 43.04 mm
Shape
landscape, 1.223:1
Carve depth
9.4% of the width
Mesh
2,027,046 triangles · 96.7 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 bighorn ram lies calm against a backdrop of jagged peaks and dark pines, his great curled horns sweeping forward like the rings of a tree. Just below him, tucked into a tangle of branches and leaves, a small nest cradles three eggs. There is a quiet story in this one, the kind of carve that makes people stop and lean in to read every detail when it hangs on the wall. This is a high-detail bas-relief STL built for depth. You get the heavy texture of the ram's coat, the layered horns, the rocky cliff face, and the fine woven nest all sitting in clean, sculpted planes that hold their shadows under a finish. It runs smoothly in Aspire, VCarve Pro, Carveco, and ArtCAM, and you can scale it to a cabin sign or a small plaque without losing the fine work. Cut it on a CNC router, run it as a height map on your laser, or send it to a 3D printer. For the cleanest result, rough it out with a 6mm end mill at 40 percent stepover, then finish with a 3mm ball nose at around 10 percent stepover to pull out the fur and the nest weave. Walnut, cherry, and maple all carry this design beautifully. The file downloads instantly after checkout, and commercial use is included, so carve it for your own walls or sell the finished pieces at shows and shops. Make it for the hunter in the family, the cabin owner, or anyone who loves wild high country. Add it to your cart and have it cutting tonight.
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