AutoCAD multileader - Tips and tricks

Multileader is an annotative tool that is used to add extra information to the drawings. Here are the most important tips and tricks to make the most of this tool:

1.Use “Multileader style manager” to set multileader style:

It is most likely that you will need different multileader styles for your drawing. For that, you don’t need to change the setting of each multileader manually. You should use “Multileader style manager” to define the different setting of the multileader components, and combine them into one style.

Also, when you modify any propriety of the multileader style, it will be applied automatically to all multileaders with the same style.

2. Change overall scale of multileader:

When you want to use a specific multileader style but its overall size is small, then change the overall scale of the multileader instead of changing the size of each component individually. You can just change the scale value in “Multileader style manager” to change the over all size of the multileader.

3. Customize arrow head:

If the arrowhead's default shape in “multileader style manager” don’t suit your work, you can use any block as the arrowhead. In “multileader style manager”, go to "arrow head symbol" drop list, then choose “User Arrow”. Then, Select the block you want as the arrow head.

4. Customize content block:

You can create a multileader style which contains a custom block as multileadre content. First, you should make a block with an attribute text. Then, add it to your multileader style. To add your custom block, go to Block options, then choose “source block” Drop list.

5. Add and remove leaders:

You can add more than one leader to a multileader in your drawing and you can remove them as needed.

Extra tip: Select a multileader the hover on one of the leaders grip to add and remove the leader quickly.

6. Align multiple multileaders:

If you have multiple multileaders near each other, you can align your them for a tidy and readable drawing. Use Multileader align command and explore different options the command provides.

7. Use text masks:

If the multileader text is mixed with other drawing objects that the text becomes unreadable, you can use a text mask. Text mask hides all objects under the text.

You can add the text mask by changing the “background mask” option in objects properties palette.

8. Multileaders draw order:

You can change the draw order in all drawing at once, by using the feature shown in the figure below.

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