Thanks man, that's really helpful! One other question though as I've encountered another stumbling block. Even if I start with a path which has sharp, 90° corners, by the 5th or 6th duplication and inset of the path it starts to go wavy. This makes it very hard to control the precise distances betwe...

Hi All, I'm scratching my head trying to prepare some designs in Inkscape that will be exported as HPGL plt files and used to engrave aluminium front panels for audio equipment. The bit I'm stuck on is how to ensure that the cutter head covers areas rather than single fine lines. The issue is that I...

If anyone else comes across this issue, I've had a little experiment and first couldn't implement Lazur's advice. The key seems to be to group the objects. So 1 - Select All 2 - Path > Object to path 3 - There weren't any additional text related parts for me to delete at this stage. Now if I tried t...

Amazing! Thanks for your help!

Hi All, New user here, and I've spent an enjoyable last few hours getting to grips with Inkscape. The end use is for me to import into Schaeffer Front Panel Designer software to have a panel engraved with my design. So far so good, except when I come to try to export my work as a PLT file. When I tr...