Usually you'll want your actual lines you're drawing to be reasonably thick to be able to see them more easily over the grid. What this will do is allow the nodes you've created (such as corners) to snap to the MM grid for more precise tuning. In addition it may be useful to have the snapping turned on for Snap to cusp nodes on the right hand side. To set this behaviour go to the Inkscape Preferences ( File -> Inkscape Preferences), under the Tools section select Geometric bounding box. Whilst this is also true for the kerf of our laser cut designs we usually want to be able to enter exact measurements for the bounding box sizes of objects that are based on the centres of the line strokes, the thickness of which is irrelevant when imported to LaserCut. Inkscape is by default set up for outputting to the screen or to a printer rather than as a CAD tool for engineering, and so the bounding boxes for objects include the thickness of the line strokes. Note, for a slight increase of speed for complex files on 64bit systems use the Partha builds. The download page shows you the installer files for your operating system. 5.1 You can stop reading now this section will probably be removed but is for information.

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