How to draw a star --- Carbide Create

Place it on the background to redraw it:

Use the Curve tool to roughly draw one section:

Duplicate and mirror it:

and drag into alignment:

Duplicate and rotate the duplicates:

Since things don’t quite line up, do Boolean intersection:

Redraw the original shape using the centered point of the intersection shape:

Delete the other shapes and repeat:

with things now aligning correctly, continue until one arrives at:

Select everything and model it as desired:

Unfortunately the central point is still distorted.

Export to an SVG and open it in a suitable drawing program:

Draw two pairs of objects which when blended will have the desired grey shading:

Draw a pair of parallelograms which line up with the first and last elements:

Blend the objects together:

and duplicate and mirror and rotate as before:

Export to a pixel image:

and import as a texture:

which seems to model as desired:

Adjusting a bit:

Attached.star_redrawn_3Dmodel.c2d (231.4 KB)

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