Creating leaders and annotations

A leader consists of an arrowhead, a line, polyline or a spline and an annotation.

The general procedure to place an annotation is:

  • Specify the position of the arrowhead.
  • Create the leader line segments.
  • Type the annotation text.

Creating a leader and an annotation

  1. Launch the LEADER or DIMLEADER command.

    You are prompted: Start of leader

  2. Specify the position of the arrowhead.

    You are prompted: Next point.

  3. Specify the endpoint of the first leader segment.

    You are prompted: To point [Format/Undo/Annotation] <Annotation>:

  4. Add more segments to the leader, then press Enter or right click to stop adding segments.

    You are prompted: First line of annotation text/<options>:

  5. Type the first line of the annotation text, then press Enter.

    You are prompted: Next line of annotation text:

  6. Do one of the following:
    • Press Enter or right click to create the leader and annotation.
    • Keep adding lines to the annotation text, then press Enter or right click to create the leader and annotation.

Creating a leader only

  1. Launch the LEADER or DIMLEADER command.

    You are prompted: Start of leader

  2. Specify the position of the arrowhead.

    You are prompted: Next point.

  3. Specify the endpoint of the first leader segment.

    You are prompted: To point [Format/Undo/Annotation] <Annotation>:

  4. Add more segments to the leader, then press Enter or right click to stop adding segments.

    You are prompted: First line of annotation text/<options>:

  5. Press Enter.

    You are prompted: Dimension text options [Block/Copy/None/Tolerance/Mtext] <Mtext>:

  6. Choose the None option.