Rounded Corners

**Andreh** · 07 June 2006, 03:50 AM

I'm with some problemas and I dont know if this inssue happens because its not complete or because my lack of experience.
I drew a simple retangle and make the edges rounded, but i dont found anything to block the rounded style to not change when I strain or compress that retangle, any suggestion?

**Egg Bramhill** · 07 June 2006, 04:19 AM

Andreh

The rectangle will compress the rounded corners when you compress / scale it. The solution is to convert the rectangle to Editable Shape (In the Arrange drop down menu) You can now use the shape editor tool to select the nodes (say all those on the right hand side) and move them either by Ctrl dragging or with the arrow keys.

**nimes** · 07 June 2006, 08:17 AM

it's easy

sorry my english

1. Shift+F3 (Rectangle tool)
2. Draw a rectangle
3. curved corners

look at picture ...

**Egg Bramhill** · 07 June 2006, 08:12 PM

There's a rough tutorial here.

**Andreh** · 07 June 2006, 08:23 PM

Woww... I don't believe that a aplication like these don't have this opition, it's remembering me the C*rel one XD , hey programmers that a look at the inkscape method it's simple and solve the problem.

**-=Drifter=-** · 07 June 2006, 08:55 PM

what can be simpler than what egg states? AND it's editable - you don't have to do all corners - just one or some

**Egg Bramhill** · 08 June 2006, 05:17 AM

Andreh,

What's the problem? The whole operation takes a matter of seconds. If you want to see a hard way, look here

**noskule** · 08 June 2006, 11:20 AM

@egg: As far as I see (I don't no xara for more than some days) the problem is that it isnt possible to resize the rounded corners after converting them to editable shapes. In Inkscape there is an option for choosing "scale corners" yes/no and "scale outline" yes/no. This is a very handy feature.

**PhilM** · 08 June 2006, 01:51 PM

Hi Andreh,

The inability to lock the aspect ratio of corners when squashing rectangles (or other objects) has been something that Xtreme users have wanted for a long time!

People have worked around it in various clever ways but we recognise that it would be a good feature to have and is exactly the kind of thing that prompted us to make Xara LX open source.

If you're interested in adding a "Scale corners" option to Xara LX, please head on over to www.xaralx.org and get involved in the development effort.

BTW, noskule: There is a "Scale linewidths" option on the Selector tool's Infobar.

Phil

**Andreh** · 08 June 2006, 06:28 PM

It's not my area PhilM, I'm a designer not a programmer, all I can do is give some ideas and I have some other to give, wait and you will see ^^

PS: IF a programmer use any of my suggestions please remember me on the credits ^^ good luck