Trying to give a logo some 3D elements, but I don't think this is possible with Ai? Pictures inside.

Hello, I've set out to give this logo some 3D elements for some pop. I don't want to just extrude the thing as if it was a cylinder, I want to extrue the Triniti symbol, circles, as well as the black and green quadrants in some way. Not exactly sure, but I'll figure that out later. Afterwards I will possibly be dropping the logo into Aftereffects and making some kind of animated 3D intro with it. Here is the logo:
So I took a png of the logo, auto traced the image in illustrator, and used the 3D extrude effect. This was the result:
Obviously not what I'm looking for. Even if I only extruded parts of the logo, the behavior of the 3D effect would never give me what I'm looking for. Looking at tutorials, the extude effect seems to only be good for text and non layered shapes.
What I'm trying to accomplish is something that I could see working just fine in some kind of CAD software like Solidworks. I would just select the features I want, and extrude them as I desired. I do have access that piece of software, but I feel like that is a wierd work around, and I would have problems when it came time to apply the proper colors, and when I would bring the logo back into after effects for animation.
I also tried dropping the logo into After Effects directly and did the whole "convert shapes from vector layer" and using ray tracing tried extruding it there, but I can only extrude the entire logo, not individual parts.
I'm stumped on a good way to go about what I want to do. Any suggestions?
Thanks.

Divide the logo into groups (or layers to help AE later), and run an individual 3D Extrude (applying same rotation settings) on each group for better control.
Trinity symbol will be the toughest, because of weave. You can try a seperate chunk for the overlap and bring to front.
If you have trouble keeping the elements in register, make a dummy rectangle larger than the logo, and fill with none and copy into each group for a consistent bounding box.

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