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>:

    Note: Press the Shift key during the construction of the leader to temporarily enable the ORTHOMODE system variable.
  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.