PCB Libraries Forum : Reference designator position in Altium Designer https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/ Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:21:37 +0000 Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:15:58 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=3467 <![CDATA[PCB Libraries Forum]]> https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/forum_images/PCBLForumLogo.gif https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/ <![CDATA[Reference designator position in Altium Designer : The latest release of V25.03...]]> https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/reference-designator-position-in-altium-designer_topic3467_post13796.html#13796 Author: Tom H
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Posted: 18 Feb 2025 at 8:15am

The latest release of V25.03 has the .Designator for Silkscreen and Assembly set to Center/Center justification. 

In Tools > Options > Drafting, you can adjust the Height and Width and there's on/off switches. 

In the Altium translator you can change the layer assignments. 

Here is the new default Layer Assignments that Altium released on 11/1/2024. 

https://octopart.com/documentation/style-guide/altium-designer-specific#layers-in-altium-designer

]]> Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:15:58 +0000 https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/reference-designator-position-in-altium-designer_topic3467_post13796.html#13796 <![CDATA[Reference designator position in Altium Designer : Thanks for answering, you saved...]]> https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/reference-designator-position-in-altium-designer_topic3467_post13795.html#13795 Author: LaurenFoster
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Posted: 18 Feb 2025 at 2:56am

Thanks for answering, you saved my day.]]> Tue, 18 Feb 2025 02:56:52 +0000 https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/reference-designator-position-in-altium-designer_topic3467_post13795.html#13795 <![CDATA[Reference designator position in Altium Designer : OK, thanks for answering my question...]]> https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/reference-designator-position-in-altium-designer_topic3467_post13769.html#13769 Author: felecro
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Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 11:20pm

OK, thanks for answering my question]]> Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:20:48 +0000 https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/reference-designator-position-in-altium-designer_topic3467_post13769.html#13769 <![CDATA[Reference designator position in Altium Designer : By popular demand from many Altium...]]> https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/reference-designator-position-in-altium-designer_topic3467_post13766.html#13766 Author: Tom H
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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.

]]> Tue, 28 Jan 2025 08:42:17 +0000 https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/reference-designator-position-in-altium-designer_topic3467_post13766.html#13766 <![CDATA[Reference designator position in Altium Designer : Hello,I would like to check is...]]> https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/reference-designator-position-in-altium-designer_topic3467_post13765.html#13765 Author: felecro
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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?




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