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Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials Place a node at a specific distance along a curved (or straight) path
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    Tyler Durden Tyler Durden @TylerDurden
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    This question came up in a discussion.

    Here is one way. (The gif file takes time to load, be patient.)

    The drawing is using mm as units, but the extension uses pixels. Inkscape's controls bar is used to make a conversion mm->px.

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