I filed an RFE asking for these about 3 years ago :D

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170149

Theres an animated gif attached to that which shows how these are done in 3d studio, select the nodes, click the button, and drag, and it interactively increases/decreases.


On 2/6/08, Tom Davidson <tjd@...1007...> wrote:
A newbie's perspective: maybe such a submenu could contain 'node
editing', 'fillet/chamfer', and 'node sculpting', since they are all
about 'shape editing' rather than 'shape creation'.

Users would really like the toolbar to be as compact as possible (
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168648 )

-Tom
On Feb 5, 2008 3:48 PM, Joel Holdsworth <joel@...1709...> wrote:
> > Looks very interesting and useful, and quite similar to the fillet
> > tool for corel draw described here:
> > http://www.oberonplace.com/products/curveworks/index.htm
>
> That's a really cool link - shame it's not open source. I've added it to
> the wiki
>
> > Well my suggestion is that it should be placed in the context menu of the
> > node editing tool, as a sub-tool, since it is directly related to node and
> > path editing.
>
> I'm kinda going down that line of thinking myself. With a sub-tool
> available within node-edit, or accessible directly through the Path
> menu.
>
> Joel
>
>
> On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 00:13 +0100, momo@...1386... wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Looks very interesting and useful, and quite similar to the fillet tool for
> > corel draw described here:
> > http://www.oberonplace.com/products/curveworks/index.htm
> >
> > In the wiki, you ask: "Does anyone have any thoughts about a good place to
> > put this rather specialist tool in the UI? I worry that this tool while
> > useful would only be useful occasionally, and would clutter the toolbox
> > unhelpfully. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?"
> > Well my suggestion is that it should be placed in the context menu of the
> > node editing tool, as a sub-tool, since it is directly related to node and
> > path editing.
> >
> > Molumen
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joel Holdsworth" <joel@...1709...>
> > To: "Inkscape Devel List" <inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 7:33 PM
> > Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Fillet Tool Blueprint Discussion
> >
> >
> > > Hi All!
> > >
> > > I'm in the process of getting together a blueprint for a fillet tool
> > > that I'm drafting:
> > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SpecFilletChamfer. I'd love to
> > > get some discussion and feedback going. I've got a couple of questions
> > > that I'd like to discuss at the bottom, and I'd like to hear people's
> > > feedback.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Joel
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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