I've reread the basics and tutorials, and .....
Here is what I am trying to do, the project is 25 parts cut out of plywood, two of the parts have inside cutouts.
I selected the inside chains and set the offset for inside, when I checked the outside chains they also changed to inside, so it looks like no matter what chain is selected the offset setting is global.
I tried setting up a new layer and sending the setting to the layer. ( it crashed three times because I didn't label the layers or tried moving something that didn't work) But if I understand LC correctly it will cut all the chains in a layer before it goes to the next layer so that will not work. So I gave up on setting up two layers.
I suspect that there is a simple solution to cutting a bunch of parts from a single sheet of material with inside and outside cuts.
Any suggestions on where to find directions...