Hi Marc,

> I was thinking about this and it could be cool to have
> these interactive points in 2d fillet also.

Unfortunately that's probably pretty difficult - curve fillet currently works by calculating the result from 2 curves and a radius value. Trying to drag one point to manipulate the curve fillet would probably involve some kind of reverse calculation from that which would involve writing a completely new solver.

- Michael

Maybe a center radius point that could be draggable?

The vector scribe plugin for illustrator does something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZHtamBiBHo

Marc

Hi Marc,

> Maybe a center radius point that could be draggable?

Right, but that's the one that requires a different solver.

Instead of solving the problem "find the points on the 2 curves to make a fillet arc of the given radius", it's more like "find the points on the 2 curves to make a fillet arc with the center closest to the given center point, with radius being calculated".

It's a different problem to solve and would require a different solver mechanism to be written to calculate it - that's certainly possible but it's a fair amount of work to do it. So that could be possible in the future.

- Michael

Oh, I think I understand, but then again I have a bad cold. :-)

I guess It's a kind of mechanism that looks simple but takes a lot of work to implement.

Thanks,

Marc

Hi Marc, well it kind of depends on what you mean by "a lot" ... :)

It's probably a couple of days worth of focused work, but that kind of puts it into a category of stuff that becomes more difficult to schedule.

It's something that's simple if you only have a fillet between 2 line segments of course, but with 2 arbitrary wiggly curves rather than just lines it's a much different scenario to deal with.

It's a good idea though and I'd like to work on it at some point, it's just difficult to know when.

- Michael

It looks to me more like a slider for the radius of the fillet.