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Reference designator position in Altium Designer Printed From: PCB Libraries Forum Category: PCB Footprint Expert Forum Name: Questions & Answers Forum Description: issues and technical support URL: https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3467 Printed Date: 30 Jan 2025 at 11:39am Topic: Reference designator position in Altium Designer Posted By: felecro Subject: Reference designator position in Altium Designer Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 5:20am Hello,  I would like to check is there an option to customize the location of reference designator in Altium Designer.  In the older versions of FP Expert (older than 25.xx, possibly 25.02 as reference designator location was mentioned in the changelog) the location of the designator was in the center of the component bust justified to the left, with the dot of the ".Designator" string being positioned in the upper right quadrant of the footprint.  In the newest version it is still positioned in the center but the text is justified to the center vertically and horizontally. I also noticed that the position can be reverted to the old pattern by using the undo action after the import script is finished running. This is not possible when a footprint is generated in one of the old versions of FP Expert - the undo button is greyed out.  Can this be customized or is this the default positioning of the reference designator going forward? Or is this some kind of software bug? Replies: Posted By: Tom H Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 8:42am By popular demand from many Altium users we changed the .Designator justification to Center/Center.  Altium scripting makes altering text justification very difficult and until that changes we have no plans for providing a user preference. ------------- Stay connected - follow us! https://twitter.com/PCBLibraries" rel="nofollow - X - http://www.linkedin.com/company/pcb-libraries-inc-/" rel="nofollow - LinkedIn Posted By: felecro Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 11:20pm OK, thanks for answering my question

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