Missing circle center marks
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Missing circle center marks
In FreeCAD 0.19 dev, I cannot dimension distances to circle centers because they have no selectable center point.
In FC 0.18, circular holes (I don't know about other circles or arcs) showed a cross '+' at the center which could be selected for dimensioning. They do not appear in FC 0.19
It's a bug/regression or am I missing something?
OS: Windows 10 (10.0)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.23721 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 4c323a63258b94903290fb23426be240c8663950
Python version: 3.8.6
Qt version: 5.12.5
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.4.0
Locale: Spanish/Spain (es_ES)
In FC 0.18, circular holes (I don't know about other circles or arcs) showed a cross '+' at the center which could be selected for dimensioning. They do not appear in FC 0.19
It's a bug/regression or am I missing something?
OS: Windows 10 (10.0)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.23721 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 4c323a63258b94903290fb23426be240c8663950
Python version: 3.8.6
Qt version: 5.12.5
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.4.0
Locale: Spanish/Spain (es_ES)
Re: Missing circle center marks
Set ArcCenterMarks to true. You can enable this in the TechDraw preferences.
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Re: Missing circle center marks
Ah, thanks, that did it.
But... that is confusing. Shouldn't this be the default?
But... that is confusing. Shouldn't this be the default?
Re: Missing circle center marks
Yes, it should, at least in my opinion. I have not tried FreeCAD with clean preferences for over a year, though. So, are you also sure that you don't have any old preferences settings lying around in your user account? Can other people also confirm how this works with default settings, please? Thanks!
Re: Missing circle center marks
It is not the default.
OS: macOS 10.15
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.23578 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 50c3cbf00579dc4941ca743c25720d016b0453ce
Python version: 3.8.6
Qt version: 5.12.5
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.4.0
Locale: C/Default (C)
OS: macOS 10.15
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.23578 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 50c3cbf00579dc4941ca743c25720d016b0453ce
Python version: 3.8.6
Qt version: 5.12.5
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.4.0
Locale: C/Default (C)
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Re: Missing circle center marks
Re: Missing circle center marks
Uwe is right, that should be checked first, but I doubt, that this has ever changed. Perhaps it was left like this for compatibility reasons. If you cannot find a previous discussion: I'm for including center marks, they are frequently used for dimensioning.
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Re: Missing circle center marks
I had a look and since the current preferences dialogs were created, the center marks are off by default.
So here is a PR that restores the default as in FC 0.18: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/4313
So here is a PR that restores the default as in FC 0.18: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/4313
Re: Missing circle center marks
I agree it could be the default. It's merged now.
What happens most of the time when a developer codes a new feature, is that it is turned off by default so the workflow of existing users doesn't change abruptly. However, after a time and when many people start using that feature, it begins to make sense to have it on by default.
What happens most of the time when a developer codes a new feature, is that it is turned off by default so the workflow of existing users doesn't change abruptly. However, after a time and when many people start using that feature, it begins to make sense to have it on by default.