Okay. I was able to make this work by:
- opening in Inkscape
- ungrouping Object | Ungroup
- Path | Break apart
- select all
- shift-click on the outer-most path to deselect it
- set fill colour to white
- Path | Combine
- select all
- Path | Difference
- scale to 50%
- save as SVG
- import into Carbide Create
- select all and position as desired
- create toolpath as a Pocket
love.c2d (1.1 MB)