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@bdandreson

With above settings I was getting most of the monogram to fit very snugly into the walnut burl, however, there were little areas where I was still getting larger gaps than I liked.

Yup. Many of us were struggling with it (still do to some extent). When I thought, “how would I try to program that,” I kept coming back with you really can’t for all cases. Then @evansd2 had a stroke of obviousness.

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…

It can still take this:

@bdandreson

a lot of trial and error

Beautiful job.