Aligning Text in the Center Below the Bottom Line of a Block

Hello,

I'm trying to align a centered text in the center below the bottom line of a block (you see the bottom area of the block at the top of the screenshot):


As you can see at the small blue center point the MText "Alignment" setting is set to "Bottom Center", but when I try to drag this text on this center point as reference point (yellow) always the end of the "A" is chosen instead of the bottom center point (blue) of the text.

What is the reason for that?

Or is there another way to easily align a text in the center below the bottom line of a block?

Best regards and thanks in advance for any tip on that
Andreas

After trying it out I have to confirm it doesn't work as you desire. With the modify - move command you can grab the center point indicator, but there is no snap; so it's just an "approximately" solution.

Hello dellus,

first thanks a lot for your reply!

But that sounds really bad:
So there is currently really no way to correctly align a centered text in LibreCAD?

"Approximately" solutions are not so cool in CAD if you understand what I mean.

Best regards and thanks again for your efforts
Andreas

i was having similar problems. here is my solution. im going to make the "1" go to the center of its container.



first i drew a line through the center of the container and made sure it only had 1 midpoint. this will allow me to snap to the center of the container when i enable "snap middle"



next modify the properties of the text and make sure that alignment is set to "middle center"



after that i used "snap middle" to snap the text onto the midpoint of the line.



next i changed the alignment of the "1" to "top right"



now all i need to do is delete the line



result:



you just have to get creative with where you draw the temporary lines

well, you're right - in general, lot's of positioning may be achieved by using temporary entities, intersections and snap modes.

However, I suppose for this particular case it's rather an overkill. After all, it's just a text.  So I'll check positioning of text and hope it may be improved and simplified.

In the next app image there will be a couple of nice tools for alignments that should simplify such cases, yet probably for the text we may add better support.