Okay. A little background before getting into the meat of things. My nephew is wanting me to do a 3D carving on a new bar top he's making. A deer scene basically. So he supplied me some ideas(photos) and I've done some searching as well. I thought I would be able to create a program/toolpaths from there. I'm getting educated fast. I have a Camaster Stinger III X3 running Vectric VCarve Pro 8.5. I wasn't able to transfer the VCarve Pro to my name because I didn't purchase the CNC from the first owner. After my research only Aspire appears to be capable of doing this. At $1995 that's a nonstarter. I am doing most things for fun and pleasure giving gifts etc. I'm not going to put $2000 into a program that would likely not return anything to me or at least not enough to make me seriously consider it. Even if I moved up to the latest VCarve (10?) from what I can tell it doesn't do 3D. Am I missing something here? Am I putting to much stock into 3D? I'm unclear when it says VCarve Pro does 2.5D. Is that sufficient for what I am attempting to do? I just wanted this to be cut with some detail but of course it's only on one side of the top. So I may be way off base here. Is this something Sketchup would be capable of doing? I know there are a truckload of questions here. Thanks in advance.