Overview of Leader Objects

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Create and Modify Leaders

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A leader object typically consists of an arrowhead, an optional horizontal landing, a leader line or curve, and either a multiline text object or block.

You can create a leader line from any point or feature in a drawing and control its appearance as you draw. Leaders can be straight line segments or smooth spline curves.

A multileader object, or MLEADER, comprises a leader and a note. It can be created arrowhead first, tail first, or content first. If a multileader style has been used, then the multileader can be created from that style

Multileader objects can contain multiple leader lines, each of which can have one or more segments, so that one note can point to multiple objects in your drawing. You can modify the properties of leader segment in the Properties palette. Using the MLEADEREDIT command, you can add leaders to, or remove leaders from, an established multileader object.

Annotative multileaders containing multiple leader segments can have different head points in each scale representation. Horizontal landings and arrowheads can have different sizes, and landing gaps can have different distances, depending on the scale representation. The appearance of the horizontal landing within a multileader, as well as the type of leader line (straight or spline) and number of leader segments will remain the same in all scale representations. For more information, see Create Annotative Leaders and Multileaders.

You can use grips to modify the look of a multileader. Using grips, you can lengthen or shorten a landing or leader line, or move the entire leader object.

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