Rounded Corners Effect | Feature Req:

[Peter Clifton]

Not a dig, honest, but as the fundamental principle is the same and works in Xara X, I thought the following Draw forum post from some years back, might be of use.

Fillet Most Shapes

HTH

Peter

[Egg Bramhill]

SG
Yes that's a great effect. As you say it can be half achieved using the Contour tool but not with the same simplicity.
Egg

[Soquili]

SG, that would be a good feature to have.

Daniel, if you don't mind converting the rectangle to an editable shape you can resize without distorting the curvature.

[diniel]

Thanks Miguel B. and Soquilli of for the suggestion of converting to editable shapes to manually move the nodes to correct the problem with cuvature distortion.

I don't like to convert anything to shapes unless I really have to: I appreciate the flexibility of being able to turn them on/off at will - especially when creating designs of form submission button sets for example... I can create a couple of designs and then with all of the rectangles selected, amend the curvature to vary between rectangular buttons, curved rectangular buttons, oval buttons etc.

I'm happy with the turn off corners/snap to shapes/redraw/delete/turn on corners routine - it takes only a few seconds and both quicker and more accurate than changing nodes .. with the flexibility and benefit of rattling out 4 variations of the same work (and make it look like I worked hard all day on them!)

It would be nice not to have to do anything though, and have the curvature corrected automatically. Curvature 0.38 should be 0.38, not a squashed and non-squashed version - we can't tell by looking if a rectangle was created as a rectangle or as a stretched square.

[Egg Bramhill]

Daniel
The quick solution is to create your rectangles, apply rounded corners etc. Open the layers gallery, Copy that layer, close the original, then use the new layer to convert to shapes etc.

This way you still retain the original shapes as rectangles etc, should you wish to alter them.

Egg