Gauge Settings Changes

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Off-Center Gauges

The Geometry section gains two new fields, Offset X and Offset Y, that shift the gauge’s dial away from its physical center - the classic car-instrument-cluster look, where the readable arc sits off to one side of the round gauge face.

All of the gauge’s layers move together with the dial, along with the Draw Center and Draw Edge markers; the layers themselves need no changes and keep their own radii and angles. Both fields are edited in the current measurement unit, like every other position field.

Start from the preset size

The Offset fields only appear while the gauge has a size preset active, chosen in the Preset Size section. The preset defines the physical gauge face the dial is offset within, so there is no offset without one. And since the preset selector locks once the gauge has layers, an off-center design starts by picking the preset size first.

Deactivating the preset (only possible while the gauge has no layers) clears any offset back to zero, so a Free-size gauge can never carry an invisible offset.

Editing works exactly as on a centered gauge: selection, action-control drags, snapping, context menus, the Gauge Wizards and undo/redo all follow the offset dial, and the offset is saved with the file.