I am having trouble with preparing pictures to use in marquetry


I have tried Inkscape and gimp along with lightburn. How do I break apart this drawing to cut individual pieces?

To be able to divide the image into individual parts, the open shapes must be closed and the rest divided into individual parts. In this case, it requires a lot of manual work, but it can be done.
A small example is the head, here I used node edit, duplicate, break apart, delete and auto join…

I do this a lot and Bernd is exactly right. A lot of work!

I like to copy the drawing onto separate layers where I’ll then delete all the lines away from what I want to keep as a single piece of wood species, Each of these layers then gets rearranged where I can rotate the bits for proper grain direction.

The “break apart” feature and the scissors are your friend here.

…and fill, then there is no doubt that again a shape is processed and closed.

Try this

In LB, convert the vector into a bitmap then trace it back to vector

I tried this on a less complex image and it worked.
Let us know if this works or not

I`ll first try a small Offset (0.05 or 0.1)


Then select the shapes as you wish.

I was picking at this yesterday to tweak some of the lines..
This looks like the plan.

Bill

What thickness ‘Kerf’ does that black line need to be.