Interesting method. A couple of tips:
- you can manually set your margin line by double clicking on it and Inkscape will give you the option to overwrite either the absolute position of it or relative position. In your case, you could have double clicked and set the Y position to 24. Not a biggy, but pretty useful in cases like this.
- SheetCam will create unique layers if your layers have different colors so, rather than creating multiple files, you could make each unique Inkscape layer a unique color (primary colors are easiest) using the fill and stroke tool. Then, in SheetCam you can create unique operations for each layer.
- If your indexing size is smaller than the full range of your table travel, (22 inches for instance) your two layers can overlap and you can sometimes keep your shapes near the border intact without cutting through them.
- SheetCam will easily handle your full size object so you don’t have to have multiple jobs. If you have a set of operations per region and separate them with a Pause (M6 will do it) and then reset your Y origin, you can actually step through your entire design without reopening files, etc. See My First Indexed Workpiece and Next Indexed Yard Art work for examples.
Finally, nice tutorial, especially for your first one! You should give a tutorial on how to make tutorial!!
I even enjoyed the ‘french’ you threw in for color… 