Missing circle center marks

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Re: Missing circle center marks

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Thanks for merging.
@asegura, can you please mark this thread as fixed by changing your initial post and adding "[fixed]" to the beginning of the title?

yorik wrote: Mon Jan 25, 2021 11:18 am However, after a time and when many people start using that feature, it begins to make sense to have it on by default.
I think in this case the problem was that it was the default in FC 0.18 and one could only change this by editing FC's parameters. In FC 0.19 almost all settings can be changed via the preferences dialog. While this new feature was implemented it was not noticed that center marks were on by default.
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Re: Missing circle center marks

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When I go to the preferences box it is completely empty - there are no fields and no values

Preferences > Mod > Tecdraw > Decorations

a completely blank page - what have I done wrong?
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Re: Missing circle center marks

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editorglueitcom wrote: Sat Sep 18, 2021 4:06 pm Preferences > Mod > Tecdraw > Decorations
This doesn't exist (anymore). You probably have still the config file or even still use an old version. I recommend to reset the configuration with the button in the preferences. Another possibility is to delete your config files or to move them in case you want to restore them.
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Re: Missing circle center marks

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chrisb wrote: Sat Sep 18, 2021 8:26 pm This doesn't exist (anymore).
That is not entirely correct.

The user is accessing the preferences via:
Tools → Edit parameters... → BaseApp → Preferences → Mod → TechDraw → Decorations

This group can be empty but is still used.
editorglueitcom wrote: Sat Sep 18, 2021 4:06 pm what have I done wrong?
Use the Preferences editor instead. See TechDraw Preferences.
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Re: Missing circle center marks

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Roy_043 wrote: Sun Sep 19, 2021 7:56 am See TechDraw Preferences.
The particular one is in the tab "Annotation":
https://wiki.freecadweb.org/TechDraw_Pr ... Annotation
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Re: Missing circle center marks

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I've got exactly the same problem as the OP on FreeCAD 0.19:
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Was using FreeCAD 0.18.x on Ubuntu 18.04 before, and had the ability to select the center of a circle for dimensioning...got a nice TechDraw thing all up and ready to go. After upgrading Ubuntu and FreeCAD, I realized I'd made a little mistake, and wanted to create a different dimension. But there's nothing to select for the centers of the holes!

Preferences -> TechDraw -> Annotation -> Show Center Marks is checked.
Tried creating a new TechDraw View--but the center marks do not show on it either.

How in the world do I get a dimension set to the center of a drilled hole now??!






OS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (KDE/plasma)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.
Build type: Release
Python version: 3.10.2
Qt version: 5.15.2
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.5.1
Locale: English/United States (en_US)
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CadTheCan wrote: Sat May 07, 2022 2:19 am Preferences -> TechDraw -> Annotation -> Show Center Marks is checked.
Is it set in the properties of the view?
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Yup, it sure is...see attached:
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tried toggling "Arc Center Marks" option; nothing happens.

Toggling other options (i.e. "Horz Center Line" and "Vert Center Line") has the expected result, i.e. the specified item appears/disappears from the view.

Further down, there's "Show All Edges." Set to True; doesn't make any difference if it's on or off.

Am I missing something obvious?
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Can you retry with 0.20? And if it doesn't help retry with a plain vanilla config.
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