Is there a way to set a default for the text alignment for silkscreen text? Somehow KiCAD will always use horizontally left and vertically bottom alignment.
This seems to be a bug (regression?). If you use: Schematic Editor / Place / Add text and set the alignment properties, then KiCad remembers those when adding new texts (at least for the whole KiCad session, it reverts after the center alignment after restarting the schematic editor).
But for: PCB Editor / Place / Add Text it always seems to be left bottom.
(Tested in KiCad V8.0.9).
I am also a bit surprised you can’t set this alignment with: PCB Editor / Edit / Edit Text and Graphics Properties. But you can use PCB Editor / View / Show Properties Manager select a bunch of text and then change the alignment.
Testing a bit further, I seem to have stumbled on another bug. If I select a footprint and press [Ctrl + d] then the footprint gets duplicated, but this does not work for text in the PCB editor.
I know that text can be selected manually for changing the format - but I was searching for a global setting for all text objects (which appearently is not available yet).
And yes, in PCB-Editor the session is not “saved”, so new text will have the left bottom format again…
Using KiCAD 9.0.4
You one line opening post is quite ambiguous and can be interpreted in different ways. At first I was thinking it had something to do with the default texts in the footprints, but I did not mention that at all, as the alignment of those is (almost certainly) determined by the footprints themselves.
My last remarks were attempts at workarounds.