You can snap the cross-hair around, but beyond that, no. There's a pretty cool blueprint for the feature you're describing though:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/transformation-anchors
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Message: 6 Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:42:10 +0100 From: Yann Papouin <yann.papouin@...400...> Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Shape resize origin To: Inkscape Devel List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <CAFkfGVC2pvHNb--706UB_L06dCzZowg_o4r4NJ16=QsJEaJhKw@...401...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi everyone !
I'm wondering if there is a way to resize a shape from it's cross center (the one set by the cross) like it can be done with the Mouse+Shift combination but by using the edit box of the toolbar (I need to increase the radius of a circle with precise value) ? If not, a tool to select the relative point to resize would be nice: [image: Images int?gr?es 1]
About this, is there a way to reset the cross center to the shape barycenter ?