This may be useful to some folks

[red river]

If you have ever seen something that you would like to cut on your scroll saw, but you could'nt because the lines were not thick enough, I came upon something that will help. I don't know how to inbed a link, so i'll just tell you to go to youtube and type in "how to thicken an image outline in inkscape." The girls name is Amber Renee. Just follow along and you will figure it out. Here are three pictures so you can see the difference. I'm going to cut this image out and fill with epoxy resin. I will follow up with pics of finished product. I hope this helps someone....forrest

[rash_powder]

Hey Red; you wouldn't be from/in North Dakota, would you?

[Fab4]

Thanks Red:
I knew how to do that but I didn't know how to change the thickness of the outline - I do now
Fab4

[redwine]

I don't know about everyone else and the thickness of lines on patterns but for myself the thinner the line the easier it is for myself to stay on line to make the cut! Now that may not sound right but with a thick line it is near imposable to stay in the middle to make the cut! With a thick line you have a choose as to cut on the left or cut on the right side of the line and that sometimes will make a difference in the outcome of what the pattern was meant to be! Now I understand that a lot of us older scrollers may not have the Eyesite we had in the younger days but for my self I will stay with the thinner lines!

Erv

[Wichman]

11 minutes ago, redwine said:

I don't know about everyone else and the thickness of lines on patterns but for myself the thinner the line the easier it is for myself to stay on line to make the cut! Now that may not sound right but with a thick line it is near imposable to stay in the middle to make the cut! With a thick line you have a choose as to cut on the left or cut on the right side of the line and that sometimes will make a difference in the outcome of what the pattern was meant to be! Now I understand that a lot of us older scrollers may not have the Eyesite we had in the younger days but for my self I will stay with the thinner lines!

Erv

Since this type of pattern is for filling with epoxy the thick line are meant to be kept.

I would much prefer to have two thin (.005") lines separated by a contrasting light fill. 

[red river]

in regards to rash_powder....North TEXAS

Wichman is correct as to why you may need thick lines on a project. (epoxy fill)

I also like his idea about two thin lines with contrasting fill. 

I am going to post some pics in Bragging Rights to show how thicker outline lines can come in handy....forrest

[Wichman]

I finally had a chance to play around with this. The video is pretty good, here's some additional information about adding thin lines and a contrasting fill.

To add lines, aka "stroke"; hold down the shift key and select the line color, typically red. Using the " fill and stroke" dialogue box, change the stroke width to .005". This should create thin lines around the thick lines .

Select the image and use the curser to select the contrasting color ( I use light green). You can use the "fill and stroke" dialogue box to make the contrasting color lighter.

Note: selecting the color without the shift key changes the fill color; selecting the color with the shift key changes the stroke color.

[red river]

good info....thank you Wichman