Comments on: Multileaders – Part 2

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:03:54 +0000

I’d really love it if SOMEONE could write a decent tutorial on creating a “user block” along with the multileader tool AND having it work correctly as annotative.
I can’t find a single tutorial that walks you through the creation of a multileader style using a user defined block and having it look correctly when annotative.

By: Joey

Joey — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:03:16 +0000

I just discovered multileadersin ACAD2008 and thought they were great until I tried copying them to other drawings. Is there any way to realign the collected annotative circle-block multileaders when they are moved between drawings with different annotative scales? Or better yet keep them aligned with each other in the first place?
Happy to have found your blog today, I hope to spend some time here learning.
Thanks.

By: Mike L

Mike L — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:14:56 +0000

Thanks!

By: Donnie Gladfelter

Donnie Gladfelter — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:00:54 +0000

@Mike – I too have run into this. I have found saving your DWG in the World UCS prevents this issue from happening. Of course if you happen to forget the quickest fix I have found is to go into the ML Style Editor. Click the edit button for your problematic styles, and hit ok (you don’t have to modify anything). You leaders should be properly oriented.

By: Mike L

Mike L — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:04:05 +0000

Multileaders > Qleaders

However, another workstation in our small office (3 workstations) is displaying MLEADERS differently. We have a rotated viewport in one particular dwg which PROPERLY displays the MLeaders when I open it on my machine. When he opens it on his computer, they’re all oriented incorrectly. Same computer, same AutoCAD LT 2008. Is there a system variable controlling this?

By: Donnie Gladfelter

Donnie Gladfelter — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:54:08 +0000

@George – I’m not going to say it’s impossible, but I don’t know of a way.

By: George Washburn

George Washburn — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:51:54 +0000

Is it possible to use a dynamic block with the multileader command? I’ve tried a few ways without success. Autocad seems to get rid of the dynamic intelligence of the block when inserting it with the mleader command?

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:50:02 +0000

I was wondering if you had any input on making your own leader. We use just an arc with and arrow head, and I can’t seem to munipulate the multi line leader enough to get past a spline (which is not an option for our drawings)

What we have been doing is drawing an arc and just pasting an arrow head on the end and rotating as needed.

Thanks!

By: Donnie Gladfelter

Donnie Gladfelter — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:45:44 +0000

Dan – to my knowledge there is no way to adjust the default tag blocks that ship with ACAD. What I would suggest is create an attributed block the size you want it (at 1:1 – remember if annotative it’s going to scale up). With your custom block defined, select “User Defined” from the Multileader Style dialog.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:31:40 +0000

I have been setting up some templates and setting annotative multileaders inside the templates. I have been having problems with the size of the blocks. The hexagon pre-made by autodesk is the one I have issues with. I can not make it smaller. There is no adjustmest on anything but the arrow size.
Any Suggestions?