Bounding box not depending on the stroke width

[Borcut]

It would be useful to have an option in the document
properties to allow working with a bounding box based
on a zero width stroke, just like Visio does. That way
changing the stroke does not change the position and
the size of the shape. This is especially useful in
technical and grid based drawing.

[Bug Importer (bug-importer)]

I second this request. It is incredibly frustrating when I am doing
dimensioned drawings and change the stroke width of, say, a 4 in square, to
have it change to 3.813 in or somesuch. I otherwise love Inkscape, but it
is the only vector drawing program I have encountered that works this way.

[prkos (prkos)]

There is now option in Inkscape preferences to use Geometric bounding box instead of Visual. With it the object's width and height don't change if you change stroke width, although it doesn't do it exactly the way you described, the object does change its size visually.

Can you test one of the latest development builds and see if it solves your request?

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Closing this report as 'Fix released': the option to use the geometric bounding box has been implemented in 0.46 - see <http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.46#Snapping>

[Borcut (borcut-gmail)]

This is great! It works close enough to what I wanted.
I didn't knew that it was already in the 0.46 version which I use since it's release. :)
Thanks for the good work.