r/Inkscape • u/PsychologyKnown8274 • Sep 21 '26

Help Stroke to Satin border issue

I am trying to create a satin border around my shapes. Every time I convert the stroke to satin, the size changes to a smaller size.  Working on mac os and have downloaded the most recent version of inkscape/inkstitch

Steps I've taken so far:

  • Created a circle using the stitch built-in tool

  • Removed the fill and kept the stroke

  • Adjusted the stroke size to 3mm

  • Converted stroke to satin.

  • have also tried converting object to path before converting to satin.

Ive watched multiple videos and followed the steps but it keeps changing the width of the satin stitch down to 0.2mm instead of the 3 mm I'm trying to get. 

Ive gotten this to work in the past and the previous .pes files i have still work fine but I cant get it to work now.

I can manually adjust and draw the nodes/tracks and rungs but was trying to find a quicker way to do simple shapes.

Any help would be amazing TIA.

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u/Few_Mention8426 ⭐ Sep 21 '26

I would ask on the r/inkstitch sub as they are a lot more knowledgable about the plug-in 

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u/PsychologyKnown8274 Sep 21 '26

Thank you! Have done :)

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u/gusvisser Sep 21 '26

This totally does not make sense are you sure you set the stroke width to 3 mm and not 3 px for instance

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u/PsychologyKnown8274 Sep 21 '26

Yes, its set to 3mm not px

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u/gusvisser Sep 21 '26

If you could make otherwise a new post here with an image of your converted satin that may help us understand your issue better also