Dissociating Leaders & Text

[Strix]

I'm thinking now I may abandon the idea of moving the text independent of the leader. I'll still do the three-grip leader, so the engineers can change the horizontal line length. Then my only concern will be making sure I draw them all the same length initially.

Stix: is there any advantage in turning off the little automatic horizontal bit in this case?

 

Thanks a lot for your help!

can you not draw them all the same length by toggling ORTHO on and keyboard inputting the length required?

 

The only 'advantage' to dropping the auto-tail, and drawing one manually, is that it'll stretch when the text is moved by an annoying person who doesn't know any better, and prompt them into rearranging the leader instead of dismantling the whole thing

 

I still don't see why they'd want to take a leader apart though. Would altering the origin of the text in relation to the leader tail solve the 'problem' they think they're having?

 

BTW - I nearly missed replying to this post - if you spell my name with the 'R' in it, I'll see it when I search for things I need to reply to :wink:

[SpeakNoEvil]

Strix: Sorry for the misspell! I can input the 0.125" manually, definitely - I was just wondering if there was a faster way.

Actually, instead of toggling ORTHO, I can set the second leader line to be automatically horizontal. LEADER>SETTINGS to the menu, then Leader Line & Arrow>Angle Constraints>Second Segment>Horizontal.

 

As to why they want to take apart the leader, I went back to them and pressed them for an answer. They either had never really thought about it, or they gave very poor answers. Either way, it didn't justify it.

 

I hereby absolve myself of this task. I'll make good leaders and let them figure out the rest.

[Strix]

ah, you're using a more recent version with better settings than I was when I used leaders all over drawings :wink:

 

I'm sure somebody must be able to produce a lisp for your new format leaders (as that figure looks a pain to be entering every time). I'm afraid I'm largely a button draughter, so I'd have been creating a button macro for my bespoke leader

 

I'm glad you got your problem licked - even if the solution was to get to the root of the problem (the engineers!) rather than that anticipated I like problems tackled from first principles - it cuts through so much of the rubbish