Multi Leader Text Box

[Anonymous]

Good Afternoon to All,

I began working with Autocad about a month ago, and i cant figure out how to create the annotation below.

I know its simple and easy i just cant figure it out.

Thank you in advance! You guys are very helpful.

[David_W_Koch · Accepted solution]

Create an attributed block for the rectangle and text (all non-annotative).  Set the attribute definition height to the height at which you want the text to plot.  Draw the rectangle at the size you want it to plot.  (I would use Middle Center justification for the attribute definition, put it at the block insertion point, and then center the rectangle around the block insertion point.)

Create a new Multileader Style by opening the Multileader Style Manager (MLEADERSTYLE command):

1. Choose New to create a new style.  If you have a similar style already, you can base it off of that.  (For example, if you have a text-based Multileader Style with the leader that you want.)
2. Leader Format Tab:  Set the leader format as desired to create the leader and arrow you want.
3. Leader Structure Tab:  Set the leader structure to have 2 leader points maximum, and set the desired landing distance.  Make the Multileader Style annotative.
4. Content Tab:  Set the Multileader type to Block.  In the Source block drop-down list, choose User Block, and then select the block definition you created.
5. Set attachment to Center Extents, color to ByBlock and Scale to 1".
6. Select OK to save the style.
7. Verify your new style is the current Multileader Style in the Multileader Style Manager.
8. Select Close to close the Multileader Style Manager.

Set the annotation scale as desired, then use the MLEADER command to add an instance of your Multileader Style.  Then use the AIMLEADEREDITADD command to add the second leader.  Adjust the leaders, if necessary.

[Victoria.Studley]

Hi @Anonymous,

I'm just checking in to see if you need more help with this. Did the suggestion that @David_W_Koch provided work for you?

If so, please click Accept Solution on the posts that helped you so others in the community can find them easily.

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to modify the text color for all Multileader text in cad drawing at once instead of one at a time.

[pendean]

Select one, right-click then choose SELECT SIMILAR, start PROPERTIES and do what you need there (assuming there are no manual overrides inside each Mleader Text).

[Anonymous]

I have tried that but color is not an option under the text portion of the properties. Anything else that I can try?

[David_W_Koch]

@Anonymous

Did you try selecting them all using Select Similar and then changing the Color property in the Properties palette,  as @pendean suggested?   That worked for me.

Are you trying to change just the text color, and not the leader color?  The only way I could do that was to set the desired leader color in the Multileader Style, and then change the color of the Multileader.  The style color setting overrode the Multileader color, leaving just the Mtext of the Multileader with the Multileader color.

[Anonymous]

I have changed the text color in the Multileader Style Manager but it does not affect the text color within the multileader. The only way that I have found to change it is by double-clicking the textbox to bring up the text formatting window and change the color there.

[David_W_Koch]

Your original question mentioned changing the color of Multileader text, so I assumed that you were using Mtext as the content.  Changing the color on the Content tab works for me in that case.  It also works for Block-type Multileaders, but changes the color of the entire block - attribute(s) and other graphics.

If you only want to change the attribute(s) in the block, then your method may be the best method to use.  You could set the other graphics to either be ByLayer or hard-code the same color as the leader (or set the color to ByLayer). I personally avoid hard-coded colors, and find splitting nested objects between ByLayer and ByBlock potentially confusing (particularly when adding a hard-coded color in the Multileader style).  But if having the attribute text a different color than the other content is important to you, it may find some variation on that acceptable.