Thursday, July 31, 2008

Using Multileaders


A great new feature of AutoCAD 2008 is the Multileader tool. It is a fast and extremely flexible way to create leaders and text, even text with multiple leaders attached. It is smart enough to keep the leader connected to the text when the text is moved, even switching from the right to left side of the text if it is moved dramatically.


To access the Multileader, turn on your Dashboard. (Type 'dashboard' at the command prompt.) If you don't have the Multileader control panel turned on, right-click the bar at the top of the Dashboard, select 'Control Panels' and check the 'Multileader' panel.

A style has been set up to conform to the SRS graphic standard. It is an 'Annotative' style, meaning that it will size itself according to the annotation scale set on your status bar. If your drawing does not have the multileader style in it, add it by inserting the 'Multileader Style' drawing located at S:\2008_CAD\Styles.

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