Faster Engraving Experiment

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You can use offsetting in inkscape as well (called inset and outset) and you can use interpolation as well, but none of them are as accurate as stroke to path.

And even then you should follow best practices for getting good results with stroke to path:

Improving kerf adjustment on complex shapes

This is an inkscape-specific thing, but may apply elsewhere. Kerf adjustment is well-trod territory at this point, but I recently decided to see if there was anything to improve performance. The issue: when doing a “stroke-to-path” action on an irregular shape, you can sometimes see deformation of the resulting paths. The solution: add more nodes. The software is making a best-guess estimate, which you can improve with extra nodes. Illustrated: On the left, the original shape. On the righ…