Not really. I kept adding to the same monster file so it’s a total mess.
My method was basically this (simplified to keep the steps easy to understand. There are ways to speed this up or be more efficient, but that comes down to your specific style. I personally use clones, but everyone has his/her/their own preferences):
Assumption: You have a target box size before you start here. If you have a desired finger size, you can adapt this technique to hit that goal too. OK let’s go!
Create a rectangle that is the desired width of my finger. Be sure it’s filled and no stroke, or the align (later) won’t work.
Copy and paste however many fingers I wanted into a big jumble, placement doesn’t matter. I chose 5.
[This is when you’d do anything fancy to them that you wanted to do.]
_Use the “arrange” tool to align them into one column with zero y-spacing. Now you have a stack of your fingers. _
[This is also when you’d do anything fancy to them that you wanted to do.]
Draw a rectangle that is the desired size of your side. Convert it to a path (path->object to path)
Align the entire stack to the side of a rectangle that is the desired size of your panel. The stack will not be the exact size of your rectangle. scale it vertically (using a guide if you like) to get it to match your desired side size. (This would be reversed if you had a desired finger “height”, you’d match the rectangle to your stack of fingers, you dig?)
Copy and paste your stack and align it to the other side(s) of your rectangle as necessary.
Select every other “finger” in the stack(s). Remove them however you like (delete, cut, whatever).
_Now you should have a set of properly aligned fingers. _
[This is also also when you’d do anything fancy to them that you wanted to do.]
Turn them into paths (path->object to path) and then combine them (Path->combine (control-K)).
Now you have two path objects. This is good because we can then select both and Union them (path->union). Voila fingers!
Correct for kerf (I use the “stroke to path” method) and you’re off to the races with super well-fit fingers.
Clear as mud, I’m sure, but hey I’m moving quickly 