Any way to edit/delete small sections of a toolpath

I have an inlay plug that is cutting a bit odd in a couple of places ( near red dots in images below). I did some measurements on each of the triangles that make up the design and the problem ones are slightly different than the ones that cut correctly.

When I inspect the toolpath, I can see that there are several extra little cuts on those triangles.

Is there any way to just remove those extra little parts of the tool path?

Here is the file if it helps.
KatieMomInlay2.c2d (112 KB)

Thanks for any help you can give.

I believe the problem is the use of 1 piece of geometry:

to describe what should be 3 separate regions — re-drawing them:

and deleting the original:

seems to address the problem:

A thing to consider would be selecting everything and slightly rounding it off:

but that doesn’t seem to be necessary.

Attached as a v8 file.

KatieMomInlay2_v8.c2d (160 KB)

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Thanks Will. I’ll try redrawing them. I’ve already cut the put for this inlay, so hopefully I can do this with out messing up the fit between the two parts.

For future reference, in order to remove those extra cuts I could not simply trace those three triangles on a new layer and delete the original one piece shape. I had to ensure that when I traced them, I did not start and finish tracing them at the same node (clockwise from the top node for example). When I did that, some of the extra cuts were still there. If started my trace at a different node for each of them, it worked.

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