Inlays with Carbide Create and tolerances

I’m determining if wiping my machine is worth it to get carbide create to render correctly. I watched this today, and was wondering if CC had something like this?

You could do that w/ Carbide Create, or pretty much any CAD/CAM stack — inlays w/ angles are forgiving, since errors in size can be corrected by increasing / decreasing the depth to which a piece of inlay is seated — it’s just a matter of calculating the offsets and cutting through the material at the right distance from the idealized perimeter on each half.

There is a nifty Adobe Illustrator plug-in for doing such inlays — http://amazoncanvas.com/

Here’s a table which shows the lengths to which one can go with inlay work:

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