After looking at the file we created in our last instalment, we decided that keeping the deep edge just over the clouds even with the top edge of the board used up a lot of valuable depth real estate. We will need to create the waterfall. So, we opted to create the clouds as a separate relief, then dish it in using an oval vector as we had done with then sunburst background.
We placed this relief over our original (at the correct height) and merged then together using EnRoute’s 'merge highest' command.
We were now ready to tool path and send to the router.
Since we didn't want to deal with glue seams through the sunburst rays, we routed it from 3" Precision Board HDU.
Because of the depth, we opted to use three passes for the rough cut - probably overkill but we didn't break the bit either! For the finish pass we used a tapered 1/8" ballnose bit. Next we’ll start in on the other pieces of this jigsaw puzzle and it should start looking more like the logo we want to emulate.