-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org >From MAILER-DAEMON Thu May 18 07:39:22 2006 Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 16:39:13 +0200 From: Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@...1631...> To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Measuring distances and angles Message-ID: <20060518143913.GC7382@...1906...> References: <20060518112905.GB7382@...1906...> <3c78ff030605180713t7be2d88cte2ea3f862b0e4aba@...156...> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3c78ff030605180713t7be2d88cte2ea3f862b0e4aba@...156...> Priority: normal X-Mailer: Mutt User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Warning: 80.138.109.106 is listed at list.dsbl.org X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. Report problems to http://sf.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001 Sender: inkscape-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: inkscape-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net X-BeenThere: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9-sf.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net X-Reply-To: t_w_@...1631... List-Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user, mailto:inkscape-user-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe List-Id: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user.lists.sourceforge.net> List-Post: mailto:inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: mailto:inkscape-user-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=help List-Subscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user, mailto:inkscape-user-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=subscribe List-Archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=inkscape-user Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline 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