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
- Launch the LEADER or DIMLEADER command.
You are prompted: Start of leader
- Specify the position of the arrowhead.
You are prompted: Next point.
- Specify the endpoint of the first leader segment.
You are prompted: To point [Format/Undo/Annotation] <Annotation>:
- 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>:
- Type the first line of the annotation text, then press Enter.
You are prompted: Next line of annotation text:
- 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
- Launch the LEADER or DIMLEADER command.
You are prompted: Start of leader
- Specify the position of the arrowhead.
You are prompted: Next point.
- Specify the endpoint of the first leader segment.
You are prompted: To point [Format/Undo/Annotation] <Annotation>:
- 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>:
- Press Enter.
You are prompted: Dimension text options [Block/Copy/None/Tolerance/Mtext] <Mtext>:
- Choose the None option.