Adjusting for the Kerf of Your Laser in Inkscape
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- Опубліковано 13 лис 2019
- Ever made slots and tabs in one of your designs only to find they fit loosely? You might need to adjust for the thickness of your laser, also known as the kerf.
I'll show you how to adjust for the kerf of your laser so your designs will fit together snuggly.
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This a very elegant and good solution for the 'kerf' problem. The only right way to do it I found so far. Thanx a lot!!!!!🙏
I'm so glad to hear it was helpful!
Thank you for a very understandable explanation! Well done!
I'm glad it was helpful!
Drove myself nuts with 13 attempts to figure this out before finding your video and got it in one. Thanks very much indeedy!
Tanks! Exactly what I was searching!
Congratulations my friend!! This is the only video on fucking internet that explain what i wanted! :D :D :D
I'm so glad to hear it was helpful!
how do you select the one you want to erase? I am having trouble with that.
thanks
Have you used the Break Apart command yet? Until you use that you won't be able to select just one with the select tool.
When i draw a simple Rectangle for example i never have a center line (the dotted one) i always get a singular outer line?
And when i add a Kerf of 0,15mm it makes the line 2x smaller so shouldn't i make the Width only half the kerf? Cause it takes half the kerf of both sides? (Top and Bottom)
All good questions. The center line exists in my version because I duplicated the part before using this technique, so it's the second version that wasn't converted.
When you say it makes the lines smaller, I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Can you say that another way?
As for the 1/2 kerf vs full kerf issue, I can see why it may make sense to only offset by 1/2 the kerf, which is definitely what you should do. But, the way you do that is by setting the stroke to the full kerf since half will be on the outside and half on the inside. Does that help?
@@makingmakers4355 Yeah thx The Kerf settings one helped but even if i duplicate the Rectangle or anything or the Line stays on the outside and when i use "Stroke to Path" the lines don't change (only the Width resets to 1mm (from the set Kerf-Value before). But Break apart splits the dran line but as it seems not correctly
@@Stoneheach That sounds rather strange, do you think you could record a screen capture (OBS Studio is free and pretty easy to use), upload it to UA-cam, and shoot me a link? I should be able to figure out the problem from that.