Can't move label on Drawing Detail

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Can't move label on Drawing Detail

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OS: Windows 10 Version 2009
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.24291 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-19
Hash: 7b5e18a0759de778b74d3a5c17eba9cb815035ac
Python version: 3.8.6+
Qt version: 5.15.2
Coin version: 4.0.1
OCC version: 7.5.0
Locale: English/New Zealand (en_NZ)


Is there a way to position/format the label numbers for the Details in this drawing?

Thanks

FCStd is here https://1drv.ms/u/s!ArMxdUYEh9fKwBri9KC ... W?e=PkHxmC
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Re: Can't move label on Drawing Detail

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Vagulus wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:20 pm Is there a way to position/format the label numbers for the Details in this drawing?
There is no drawing in the linked file.
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Re: Can't move label on Drawing Detail

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Sorry folks. Stripped to much out of the FCStd in attempt to get it to uploadable size. Here is the full beast:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!ArMxdUYEh9fKwBzgmkM ... _?e=DQmxL5

OS: Windows 10 Version 2009
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.24291 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-19
Hash: 7b5e18a0759de778b74d3a5c17eba9cb815035ac
Python version: 3.8.6+
Qt version: 5.15.2
Coin version: 4.0.1
OCC version: 7.5.0
Locale: English/New Zealand (en_NZ)
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Re: Can't move label on Drawing Detail

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Vagulus wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:20 pm Is there a way to position/format the label numbers for the Details in this drawing?
If you mean the caption that appears below the view, then the answer is no. There was a change this week to make the opaque matting around the detail smaller, so the text should be closer to the graphic now.
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Re: Can't move label on Drawing Detail

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Good to know. Thanks

My solution was to turn it off and replace it with an Annotation which I can place anywhere.
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Re: Can't move label on Drawing Detail

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wandererfan wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 2:09 pm There was a change this week to make the opaque matting around the detail smaller, so the text should be closer to the graphic now.
If you are talking about what I think you are talking about then I would really love it if the 'padding' around the Detail was transparent. That would mean that I could place the Detail or Cross-section or whatever anywhere there is space for it without obscuring adjacent parts of the drawing. The reason I find that so attractive is that a lot of drawings get massacred when they are taken into the production shop. I have found that A4 Landscape Drawings in one of those plastic folders of A4 sleeves survive much better. Unfortunately this puts space on the A4 page at an absolute Premium.

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