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6 Enter the first line of text. To add additional lines, press ENTER once.
7 Press
ENTER twice to end the command.
Dimension toolbar
Command line
QLEADER
To create multiple leaders from the same annotation
1 Select the leader and then the leader arrowhead grip.
2 At the Command prompt, enter c to select the Copy option.
3 Specify the endpoints for the multiple leaders, and then press
ENTER.
4 To move the end of the new leader to the hook line (dogleg or landing),
clear any grips by pressing
ESC, select the new leader line, select the leader
line grip, and move the grip to the hook line.
Dimension toolbar
Command line
QLEADER
Add Text to a Leader
There are two ways to create leader text with AutoCAD. You can enter text on
the command line, or you can create paragraphs of text using the Multiline
Text Editor. If you create multiline text, you can apply formatting to individ-
ual words or letters. You can also append copies of existing annotation to a
leader.
Text is placed automatically at the endpoint of the leader, at the specified off-
set. You specify this offset in the Modify Dimension Style Manager, Text tab,
under Text Placement. Feature control frames also are placed automatically
at the endpoint of the leader. Blocks are inserted at the location, scale, and
rotation you specify.
Use the Vertical settings in the Modify Dimension Style Manager, Text tab,
under Text Placement to align the annotation vertically with the leader. In
the following illustration, the vertical justification option used is Above.