Global Multileader Standard Style

Global Multileader Standard Style

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Global Multileader Standard Style

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Is there a way to change the global multileader standard style?

For example, I've changed the multileader standard style in one drawing and saved. When I open another drawing, the standard multileader style isn't the way I've just set it. I've tried using the tool palettes, but that doesn't work.

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imadHabash
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Hi and welcome to AutoCAD Forum,

>> When I open another drawing, .... 

Multi-leader changes just saved separately in every drawing settings . i mean that changes didn't reflect in other drawings . you can make a new style and copy it where ever you need . 

 

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Imad Habash

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dmfrazier
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@Anonymous wrote:

Is there a way to change the global multileader standard style?

For example, I've changed the multileader standard style in one drawing and saved. When I open another drawing, the standard multileader style isn't the way I've just set it. I've tried using the tool palettes, but that doesn't work.


 

It sounds like you're asking if there's a way to re-define the "Standard", out-of-the-box, default multileader style so that it would conform to your preference for any drawing you might open or create. This is not the way "styles" work in AutoCAD.  All "styles" are contents of DWG files, not contents of the running program itself. (You will notice that if you have AutoCAD running, but no drawing file open, there is no way to set or change a "style". A style must be "set current" while a drawing file is open, but this is possible only because the drawing file itself contains at least one of each type of style.)  All of AutoCAD's default styles (among other default "things") are defined internally, and there's no way to modify them in the way you seem to be describing without modifying the program itself.

 

One common way to approximate a personalized, "global" multileader (or other type of) style is to define it in your default template, so that any new DWGs you produce (based on the template) will automatically contain your preferred definition(s). Still, any existing DWGs would not necessarily then include that style, or if they did have a style with a matching name it may not (probably wouldn't) match your style's settings.

 

The Tool Palettes can be a good method to bring your preferred style(s) into other DWGs (from a template, for example), but you must be aware that when bringing a style in from another source file, if a style of the same name already exists in the current DWG, that style's definition will prevail. (The "duplicate definition" in the source will be ignored in favor of the existing definition. This is true of all named objects.)