Lately I’ve been playing with using PG wood inset cuts with different wood and clear acrylic. I’ve been using the Inkscape Inset/Outset path command with a setting of .001in. With that tolerance I’ve gotten a really good snap fit without glue. It’s really important however to take the cone shape of the beam into account and mirror the design. In this example the red cut (outset .001in) is setup to be flipped and placed into the blue cut (inset .001in) from the top…
Yes, just make an object (and a mirrored copy) and inset the “hole” and outset the “insert” by .001in. In Inkscape you’ll need to setup the steps in preferences because the defaults are much larger than needed.
Would you like to write that up as a little Snap Fit Tutorial that I can move into the Tips and Tricks section and link in the Matrix? (If you want to put it there, i think more people will eventually find it.)
Thanks so much for the info… looking forward to trying it. Wondering if there was any reason (in your above example pics) that you moved the blue (boomerang shape) out of the medallion? it seems that part cut out of the center of the circle is not used, why move the little blue shape?
Thanks so much for adding the inkscape settings for inset/outset steps. That makes kerf adjustment SO much easier than how I’d been doing it (multiple steps involving strokes as shapes).
