I hope I can ask this here as it’s not specifically an x-carve question, but it is a project that I hope to play with on the x-carve. Working on guitar designs, and would like to be able to set up a binding route as shown in the red line here. In this case, it’s .080" in from the guitar profile (blue line). In Inkscape, how can I work with the offset of the red line? It’s such a complex shape that scaling the blue doesn’t work, or at least I can’t make it work. Is there an offset command somewhere in Inkscape that I just can’t find? Or would something else work? Ultimately, I would need to do as many as three different offsets here… One at say .010, .060, .070 as an example.
I do have a full set of router bits and bearings for binding routing, but I’m trying to learn something new just because I love the learning process. I also think that a CNC should be able to do this well, so why not push the envelope a bit.
If you want multiple insets/out sets of a fixed distance, ensure your main shape is a path, select it, then Extensions / Generate from Path / Inset/Outset Halo. Works really well.
