The Style Manager has three different tabs: Leader Format, Leader Structure, and Content (see Figure 5). As with linetype and dimension styles, it is good practice to create new styles with unique names so you do not have a conflict with other users opening up your drawings.Īfter selecting Continue, the Modify Multileader Style menu will appear with many options for your new style. Hit New and type in My New Leader as shown in Figure 4. The Multleader Style Manager is where we can create, modify, and delete multileader styles in our drawing and add to our current drawing and/or template.
Selecting the leader panel arrow as shown in Step 5 (Figure 2) will bring up the Multieader Style Manager as shown in Figure 3. If you work in Civil 3D like I do you already know the importance of styles.
Multileader Style menu dialog box (MLS). 
Remove a leader from a current multileader object (MLE). Add another leader to a current multileader object (MLE). Pull down for your current multileader style (MLS). Command shortcut: launches current mleader style. Items 1-6 shown below are defined as listed (command shortcuts are shown in parentheses). Figure 2 shows all of the individual components of the Leader panel on the ribbon. Multileaders can be found on the Annotate tab (Figure 1) of the ribbon under the Leader panel. Let’s review the multileader and some of the variables and concepts that make this tool a very important part of standards implementation in AutoCAD. If a multileader style has been used, the multileader can be created from that specified style. Multileaders can be created arrowhead first, leader landing first, or content first. A multileader object typically consists of an arrowhead, a horizontal landing, a leader line or curve, and either a multiline text object or a block. Yes, there were tricks to making the leader point to several areas by using a grip copy or even just tracing over the original leader.Ī multileader is more than just a leader having the ability to have numerous leaders attached to a single piece of text. Well, not that long ago, but prior to AutoCAD 2008 the CAD designer/operator had to point to an object using numerous leaders to reference single or multiple items. Back July 20th, 2015 Implementing the Multileader to Stand Out in the Crowd The MultileaderĪ long time ago, in a galaxy far far away…
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