Banner detailing question. 3d model necessary?

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Hey everyone. I need some advice on a current project I’m working on. I’m adding banners on the top and bottom of this logo but I want the ends each banner to kind of look folded like sketched.

The overall project will be 3/4” hardwood, logo advanced v-carved and text will be standard v-carve.

To get the drawn “folded” look, I’m assuming I’d have to run a small 3d toolpath at these banner detail right? I’m new to 3d engraving, never done it before. If my first assumption is correct then I’m also assuming I’d have to have these banners 3d modeled as well correct?

How would you go about this?

Thank you for the help.

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I don’t think you need any 3D toolpaths for that. You can either just vcarve out the lines, or run a small pocket on the “back” portion of the ribbon to make it physically lower than the rest.

I’d try both out on some scrap and see what looks the best.

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Thank you very much! I’ll give that a shot.

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Let me know! Sometimes we overthink things :slight_smile:

But i don’t see any reason you can get the look you want with 2D toolpaths.

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Something like:

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Should look something like this with 2D / Layers…

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Thanks everyone for the advice, I’ll be getting into this in more detail tonight in CC.

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In case it helps anyone here’s what I ended up going with. Just used an advanced v-carve tool path for the engravings. Turned out nice, was definitely over thinking this one.

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happens to all of us, more often than we care to admit :slight_smile:

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