Hi, I read many posts but I did not find a perfect solution. I want to make an inlay in a guitar neck, but the wood milling must be 0.3 mm larger than the piece to be inserted. Normally I would have solved with the “offset” function but it does not give good results, neither 3d, 2d, 1d scales, nor “boxedit”.
Offset is what you want - but when the contour is very complex, it may not always work well. However, from your image where every segment fails to trim at the corners, it seems like either the contour isn’t a joined curve but rather grouped - or maybe it’s not planar… or maybe just too many points. Post the curve in question so someone can look…
Not to mention the issue may be further complicated by the toolpathing (CAM) software.
One could spend time getting this to work in Rhino only to find kerf errors may result in a further round of modification.
No problem with the file, I’m trying to shrink the base image to create the cnc toolpath. The design must be optimized very well, because for the contour I use 0.6mm mill with the engraving option. I was hoping there was a script for that.