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Carved wood relief of a sturgeon swimming over riverbed stones with reeds and small fish in the background
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Bottom-Feeding Sturgeon Underwater Scene Bas-Relief STL

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📐 Design facts
Carving it at your size
Carving size
8 × 7.1 in (203 × 180 mm)
Relief depth
0.62 in (15.7 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 30 min (roughing 1 h 15 min, finishing 4 h 15 min)
Carving size
12 × 10.6 in (305 × 269 mm)
Relief depth
0.93 in (23.6 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 5 h 50 min (roughing 1 h 5 min, finishing 4 h 50 min)
Carving size
18 × 15.9 in (457 × 404 mm)
Relief depth
1.4 in (35.4 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 14 h 20 min (roughing 3 h 35 min, finishing 10 h 45 min)
Carving size
24 × 21.2 in (610 × 539 mm)
Relief depth
1.9 in (47.2 mm)
Board thickness
2.5 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 5 min (roughing 8 h 30 min, finishing 9 h 35 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
286.95 × 253.5 × 22.23 mm
Shape
landscape, 1.132:1
Carve depth
7.7% of the width
Mesh
2,028,822 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 big sturgeon noses along the riverbed, armored scutes ridged down its back, barbels trailing near the stones while smaller fish dart through the reeds above. There is something ancient about this fish, and a finished carve catches that perfectly. Hang it on a cabin wall and you can almost feel the cold current moving through the weeds. This is a high-detail bas-relief STL built for clean cutting. The sculpt holds real depth, from the raised body of the sturgeon down to the carved gravel and the fine texture in the background grasses, so your toolpaths read crisp instead of muddy. It is ready for Aspire, VCarve Pro, Carveco, and ArtCAM, and it runs well on a CNC router, a resin or FDM 3D printer, or a laser engraver. For the cleanest result on wood or MDF, rough the panel with a 6mm end mill at a 40 percent stepover, then bring out the scales and fins with a 3mm ball nose finishing pass at 10 percent stepover. Cut it into wall plaques, lodge signs, lake house decor, or one-off gifts for the angler in your life. You get an instant digital download the moment you check out, with commercial use included. Carve it for your own walls, sell the finished panels at shows, or hand one to a fisherman who would actually appreciate it. Add it to your library and put it on the machine.
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Excellent looking stl file! Very high detail!

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