On 5/18/06, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@...1631...> wrote:
Now CAD style dimensioning would be a bit much to ask ;)
But the following should be relatively straightforward and good
enough:
- Display of the distance between 2 selected nodes
- Display of the angle of a line segment relative to a vertical
line (just like happens now in the statusbar if you hold ctrl
while using the beziere tool)
- Display of the angle between 2 adjacent line segments defined
by 3 selected nodes.
- The same for curves, based on a "virtual" straight line
between the nodes.
- Numerical entry for all these cases
You can use the Pen tool for most of this (though not all):
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#How_to_measure_distances_and_ang...
Being able to move a node while keeping the angle of one of its
segments fixed (you could say: keeping the node congruent to the
original segment, I guess) would also be nice. The only sensible
way ui-wise I can think of, would be having a "Keep angle" toggle
per segment, though.
But keeping angles at a node fixed will in most cases turn straight
line segments into curves as you drag it. Is this what you want?
--
bulia byak
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Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 16:39:13 +0200
From: Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@...1631...>
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Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Measuring distances and angles
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On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 10:13:13AM -0400, bulia byak wrote:
> You can use the Pen tool for most of this (though not all):
>
>
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#How_to_measure_distances_and_ang...
That's realy only good for when you actualy create the segments.
After the fact it's not precise enough.
> >Being able to move a node while keeping the angle of one of its
> >segments fixed (you could say: keeping the node congruent to the
> >original segment, I guess) would also be nice. The only sensible
> >way ui-wise I can think of, would be having a "Keep angle" toggle
> >per segment, though.
>
> But keeping angles at a node fixed will in most cases turn straight
> line segments into curves as you drag it. Is this what you want?
Nope. Say you have a parallelogram and want to keep the angle of the
left side, but don't care about the angle of the upper line. With this
option (however triggered ui-wise), you could move the upper left node
only colinear (congruent was the wrong term) to the left segment.
A real world example i've had is a letter V and tweaking the hight of
the right end of it. The 2 nodes have to be moved colinear to the sides
of the right arm of the V to keep all angles the same.
---
Thorsten Wilms
