LEADER command
Draws leaders.
Alias: LE, LEAD
Description
Draws leaders by specifying several points.
- Start point
- Next point
- To point
- Annotation
Method
Specify the start of the leader, then create the leader line segments, and after that, type the annotation texts.
Note: After you start creating a leader, options regarding the annotation may be available.
Options within the command
- Format
- Specifies the leader style.
- Arrow
- Draws an arrowhead at the leader’s start point (default).
- None
- Does not draw an arrowhead.
- SPline
- Draws the leader as a spline.
- STraight
- Draws the leader as a straight-line segment (default).
- Exit
- Exits the Format option.
- Undo
- Undoes the last leader line segment.
- Annotation
- Starts adding text to the end of the leader line.Note:
- The annotation is created as an Mtext entity.
- The annotation is independent of the leader line. When moving a leader, make sure to include the annotation in the selection set.
- options
- Allows you to select the annotation options.
- Block
- Selects a block in the drawing or uploads a block file from the computer.
- Copy
- Selects a Mtext, text, block reference, or tolerance entity from the drawing to use as annotation of the leader.
- None
- The leader command closes without annotation.
- Tolerance
- Enters the annotation as a tolerance notation through the Geometric Tolerance dialog box.
- Mtext
- Enters annotation as Mtext through the Text Formatting toolbar.