Does anyone know if it is possible to change the default leader connection in multileader contents to middle of text for both left & right horizontal attachment.
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JohnB
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Does anyone know if it is possible to change the default leader connection in multileader contents to middle of text for both left & right horizontal attachment.
Regards
JohnB
Yes. It's in your Multileader Style Manager Content tab (Leader connection):
Dave
Thanks fot the reply.
I know that, what I want to do is permanently change it so I do not have to keep resetting
it for each drawing. I always want it to be middle of the text.
regards
JohnB
Yes, you can do this a couple of different ways.
1) Setup the mleaders in your default template with the options you desire.
2) Write (or find) a lisp routine that you can modify for your settings and run it after opening a drawing.
There are probably others too, but I know option 2 works as that's the way I did it for my department and there are pieces of my routine here in the forum. I've heard of option 1 working, but I've yet to go through that process since I have a way to get things working.
From the Dept of Redundancy Dept... not to step on bly's toes...
That's easy too. Set up the style and save it as part of a DWT (template) file. As long as you always use that (or some other DWT file) to start your drawing you'll always have this setup. That's the beauty of template files, they hold ALL of your presets... annotation text styles, dimensioning styles, mleader and table styles. They can contain your title blocks, units, oft used custom fields, even a few blocks if you want them, the whole lot. Build a few good DWT files and everything you want will always be right at hand.
I just assumed you were already working with a drawing that started with a template. My bad.
Dave.
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The way I have done that in the past is set up the Multi-Leader Style in my Template.
Then I use it in the Template and drag that onto my Tool Palette I have called Set Up. I can then even assign which Layer I want it on.
We network our Tool Palettes so now that Multi-leader Style is now available to the other users as well.
Hope that helps.
That's kind of the way I interpreted the second of the OP's original posts... a way to set the leader up so it wouldn't have to be changed in every (new) drawing. Starting work with a DWT solves that in full.
I agree, there isn't a way to modify existing leaders - they'd have to be changed by hand. Design Center could speed that up to some extent by getting a correct style in from another file such as that DWT.
Dave.
Drag the MLEADER from Design Center of your saved Template file.
Hmm - Can't drag and drop to a Toll Palette here - but it is late
The way I have been able to do it in AutoCAD 2010 MEP, AutoCAD 2011, and AutoCAD 2012 Vanilla is to draw a leader in the style you want, grab and drag to the Tool Palette.
Also to convert an old drawing I click the Multileader set up in the Tool Palette, and draw a leader in the old drawing to be updated. Then I use Match Prop or select all of the Multileaders I want to update and using the Properties Palette I change their Style. (Works most times)
Hope that helps