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Bas relief wood carving of a mountain lake with swans, waterfall, pine forest, blue jays, and a soaring hawk.
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Mountain Lake Wilderness Scene with Swans and Blue Jays Bas Relief STL

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📐 Design facts
Carving it at your size
Carving size
8 × 4.6 in (203 × 118 mm)
Relief depth
0.40 in (10.1 mm)
Board thickness
0.75 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 3 h 20 min (roughing 30 min, finishing 2 h 50 min)
Carving size
12 × 7 in (305 × 177 mm)
Relief depth
0.60 in (15.1 mm)
Board thickness
1 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 3 h 35 min (roughing 25 min, finishing 3 h 10 min)
Carving size
18 × 10.4 in (457 × 265 mm)
Relief depth
0.89 in (22.7 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 8 h 35 min (roughing 1 h 30 min, finishing 7 h 5 min)
Carving size
24 × 13.9 in (610 × 353 mm)
Relief depth
1.2 in (30.2 mm)
Board thickness
1.5 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 9 h 50 min (roughing 3 h 35 min, finishing 6 h 15 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
491.43 × 284.92 × 24.38 mm
Shape
landscape, 1.725:1
Carve depth
5% of the width
Mesh
2,020,990 triangles · 96.4 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

Picture a quiet alpine lake at first light. Snow still clings to the peaks, a waterfall spills down through the pines, and two swans drift across calm water while blue jays watch from a branch heavy with pinecones. This panel pulls a whole wilderness into one frame, and the finished carve feels like a window cut straight into the backcountry. This is a high-detail bas-relief STL built to hold its story from edge to edge. The layered depth reads beautifully under raking light, from the deep recessed lake to the raised foreground birds and crisp mountain ridgeline. Toolpaths come off clean, with enough relief to give the waterfall, the swans, and the soaring hawk real separation. The file is tested and ready in Aspire, VCarve Pro, Carveco, and ArtCAM, and it runs well on a CNC router or a 3D printer. For best results, rough it out with a 6mm end mill at 40 percent stepover, then come back with a 3mm ball nose at 10 percent stepover to pull out the fine feather and pine-needle detail. Carve it into a cabin wall plaque, a lodge sign, a lake house centerpiece, or a one-of-a-kind gift for the hunter or nature lover in your life. You get an instant digital download, ready to load and run, with commercial use included. Carve it for your own walls, build a small batch for a craft fair, or sell finished pieces in your shop. Download it, fire up the machine, and bring this mountain lake home in wood.
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