TikZ: position of node with shorten-option

Question

I have the following Code

\draw[style={shorten >=-1cm}, dashed] (C) -- (CENTER) node {NAME};

Is there a simple way to position {NAME} at the end of the "shortened" line? If I use the code above, it is placed at (CENTER).

Sebastian

Edit: I have no permission to answer my own question, so I write a short edit:

I think I found a solution that is feasible for my problem:

    \tikzset{%
        add/.style args={#1}{to path={%
        ($(\tikztostart)$)--($(\tikztotarget)!-#1!(\tikztostart)$)%
        \tikztonodes}}
    }

    \draw[dashed, add=1cm] (C) to (CENTER) node[right] {NAME};

Answer 1

You can use a xshift for the node and use the proper anchor:

\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
\coordinate (C) at (0,0);
\coordinate (CENTER) at (10,0);
\draw[style={shorten >=-1cm}, dashed] (C) -- (CENTER) node[xshift=1cm,anchor=west,inner sep=0pt] {NAME};
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

Answer 2

I'm not sure that your question is very precise. You write "shortened" line because you use the option shorten? in fact you increase the line with shorten >=-1cm

\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture} [dot/.style={draw,circle,minimum size=3pt,
                                  inner sep=0pt,outer sep=0pt,thick,fill}}]
\coordinate[dot] (C) at (0,0);
\coordinate[dot] (CENTER) at (10,0); 
\draw[style={shorten >=-1cm}, dashed] (C) -- (CENTER) ;
\end{tikzpicture} 
\end{document}

gives

logically the simplest way

\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\coordinate (C) at (0,0);
\node (CENTER) at (10,0) {NAME};    
\draw[dashed] (C) -- (CENTER) ;
\end{tikzpicture} 
 \end{document}

But perhaps you really want to work against the effect of \draw[shorten >=-1cm, you can get a fine result with :

\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[dot/.style={draw,circle,minimum size=3pt,
                                inner sep=0pt,outer sep=0pt,thick,fill}}]
\coordinate[dot] (C) at (0,0);
\coordinate[dot] (CENTER) at (10,0);
\draw[style={shorten >=-1cm}, dashed] (C) -- (CENTER) node[right=1cm] {NAME};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document} 

This is one method to place a node relatively to another on. First when you write rightthe new node is placed with 'anchor=west` then if you decided to increase the line with 1 cm, you you need to move the new node to 1 cm to the right of CENTER.