Hi there! I have a couple of things to share. We’ve been doing a lot of work with the Cuttle team to make the process of making press fit inlays a bit easier so we made a few projects with companion videos to show you how to use them:
- We designed a free kerf tester
- We made a few free earring designs (rounded tear drop, curved wedge, cat face)
- We created a starting project with helping features to help you design your own, we are calling it the Inlay Kit.
Let me tell you a bit more about each one of them:
Inlay Kerf Tester
We started with a slight twist on a classic tester that let’s you find that dreaded kerf in a few easy steps. The companion video has detailed instructions on how to use it if you haven’t done this kind of thing before. And in true Cuttle fashion you can customize all the parameters, so if you are a power user you can easily get more precision or make more tests in one go.
Free Inlay Earring Designs
We are releasing these 3 templates, you can change the scale of the earrings without altering the hanging hole and they have a simple preview option. I think they are an easy way to get started with this kind of inlay and they require very little material.
Inlay kit
I’m particularly fond of this one because it combines the two faces of Cuttle, the templates and the editor. It’s not quite a template because it requieres that you move shapes around in the editor, but we structured in such a way that generating the cut file is automated, letting you concentrate on the shapes and the composition of the design (maybe this is what all good design software should accomplish 
). It’s all explained in the video or you can start tinkering with it here.
I hope you have fun with these designs, also I’ll be happy to answer any questions. Thanks for reading!
