add easily a radius to a path

Registered by Thorsten Gensler

This blueprint has been superseded. See the newer blueprint "A new tool to fillet or chamfer the cusps of paths" for updated plans.

At the moment it's needed very much manual work to achieve a radius to a sharp edge. But it's not hard to programm some tool to get it faster. It can be done with these steps:
- mark a sharp edge
- click on an icon for the radius tool, it appears somewhat similiar to the scaling tool handler
- moving the handler does the following:
    add two new nodes straight to each connected node
    delete the selected node
    make at each new node at one side a bezier curve with 0.6 times the distance from the selected node to the new ones

I hope it's clear what I mean. This should work for angles bigger or equal to 90 degree.

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Status:
Complete
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None
Priority:
Undefined
Drafter:
None
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
None
Definition:
Superseded
Series goal:
None
Implementation:
Unknown
Milestone target:
None
Completed by
jazzynico

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[2011-05-18 ~suv] this seems to be the same (but with far fewer specs to implement) as the existing blueprint for a fillet tool
<https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/fillet-tool>

<off-topic> Please don't use blueprints for simple feature requests (those are handled in the bug tracker). </off-topic>

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