re: Inkscape for marquetry drawings

While cutting? Did you say while cutting?
Can’t wait to see some progress shots.

This is quite impressive use of Inkscape. Are you cutting right from a copy of the photo above? I would still have to do a tracing for piece by piece which I prefer most of the time but for Boulle or PIW it should work well as is.

I have experimented with the auto trace features but I always cut from a 1/100" line now so I haven’t explored it to this extent. I will next time I’m working from a photograph.