t=TechDraw/Leaderline question

[chrtech1]

New guy here, going thru the learning curve. Transitioning from Solidworks.

At the point of figuring out TechDraw WB usage to create shop drawings. OK so far, but can't seem to locate the LeaderLine tool button. Not on toolbar or menu listing, preferences doesn't show me a setting that might be hiding it. I was working in 0.17, upgraded to 0.18. I attached the file I am currently working in fwiw.

thank you,
Kevin Snyder

OS: Windows 10
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.4 (GitTag)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-18
Hash: 980bf9060e28555fecd9e3462f68ca74007b70f8
Python version: 3.6.6
Qt version: 5.6.2
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: English/UnitedStates (en_US)

[Kunda1]

Moved to TD subforum

[wandererfan]

I was working in 0.17, upgraded to 0.18.

Leader lines (almost all annotation features in fact) were only introduced in v0.19.

For v0.17 the state of the art was the Drawing WB + the DrawingDimensioning add-on.

You could try exporting the drawing to Svg and adding annotations with Inkscape.

Or you could try v0.19.

[chrtech1]

I was working in 0.17, upgraded to 0.18.

Leader lines (almost all annotation features in fact) were only introduced in v0.19.

For v0.17 the state of the art was the Drawing WB + the DrawingDimensioning add-on.

You could try exporting the drawing to Svg and adding annotations with Inkscape.

Or you could try v0.19.

Thank you! I will try 0.19...

[chrtech1]

Release 0.19 solved my "leaderLine" problem, in that it wasn't there. Release 0.19 looks good, but...

The center marks in my 0.19 are not visible so I can't dimension the holes. I put the same drawing up in 0.18 (shown) and 0.17 (not shown) and the center marks are visible in both older releases. I went thru the TechDraw preferences side by side looking for something that could cause this, couldn't find it. After reading some of the other center mark posts, I'm almost afraid to bring this up...

Help is appreciated, sorry to be a pita. I'd much rather you guys be spending your time on new code rather than helping noobs like me. Thanks.

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[chrtech1]

Found it finally! "Arc Center Marks", the true/false setting on the Decoration group on the each individual view property tab toggles the center marks on and off..

Even the blind pig finds an acorn every now and then...

thanx