Delete Vertex from Leader?

[Anonymous]

I can add a new Vertex point in a Leader, but how can I delete one if I add
too many?

[mcgyvr]

RIght mouse click on the leader...
Select "delete leader", then select the extra one that you want to delete.

[moretti999]

Essentially, you delete the extra segment. So, please, discretely select rather the line than the node.
I hope it helps...

[Anonymous]

I am not talking about deleting a second leader, but rather a vertex on the
leader.



wrote in message news:5894346@discussion.autodesk.com...
RIght mouse click on the leader...
Select "delete leader", then select the extra one that you want to delete.

[CAD-One]

I know this an old thread. I am seeing this issue with leaders even now. I have added couple of vertex. In general leader has a pointing arrow and a bent segment for showing text. But I have 3 bent segments and then the text. I want to remove these extra segments only. Just curious if there was any improvement to the leader.

I have already fixed this by recreating the leader text with 1 segment.

Thanks

C1

[SBix26]

There should be a Delete Vertex option in the context menu, but there isn't.  I just tried something that seemed to partially work, which was to drag one vertex on top of an adjacent one.  After doing that, they apparently merged and became one.  But I was not able to do that with the vertex at the text leader, so I'm always left with one extra vertex, but only one.

[Anonymous]

Drag the last unwanted vertex to the tip of the arrowhead.  Annoying and completely unintuitive but it works.

[Anonymous]

Dragging the unwanted vertex to the arrowhead works..this is one of those secret that only the developer knows about..this issue was posted back in 2011 and still an issue today 2017.  I wish they would add delete vertex command

[ToddPig]

Can somebody post a screencast of this "trick" working.  I have always thought this was a pain in the ass, and for the most part I usually end up taking the Autodesk approach to solving the problem, "Delete it and start over"  

When I tried to move the unwanted vertex to the arrow head, it looked OK, until I needed to move the text around, then the arrowhead looks wrong.

[Anonymous]

I don't know how to make a video if I know I would post it here but its pretty simple, just drag the vertex that you want to delete to the arrowhead..

[ToddPig]

That worked!!! Thanks!!!
I wasn't dragging all the way to the tip of the arrowhead.

[CrankyOldMan]

This also works for multiple arrow leaders with extra segments between the arrow connections and the text. As stated above, there is no indication that this will do anything--no tooltip snap, no cursor change, nothing. Having a "remove segment" option in the right click menu would be helpful since "remove vertex" doesn't make sense here.

[rpeterson9DZ38]

Dragging the offending vertex to the arrow nor the other end does not work.  Putting one vertex on top of another does not make a vertex deleted.......

[Curtis_Waguespack]

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@rpeterson9DZ38 wrote:

Dragging the offending vertex to the arrow nor the other end does not work.  Putting one vertex on top of another does not make a vertex deleted.......

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Hi @rpeterson9DZ38 

Both of these things worked for me using Inventor 2020, so I don't think there has been a change to this.

Note I did have to zoom in tight on the arrow head to get that to work....  and it does not work with the standard vertex on the "landing leg" of the leader.... only on "extra" vertexes, as far as I could tell.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[iMaJiNe_Designs]

Still a problem in 2022.

[stephane.fillion]

Right click on the leader

add new leader

then delete the one that you don't need

SF

[checkcheck_master]

I was also looking for 'Delete Vertex from Leader' and very surprised with the solution.
I'm using 2022 and it works great there.
Simply drag the first or last vertex to a leader connection point or the arrowhead and they disappear.
Note that a vertex in the middle of other vertexes does not work, as said, you must have the first or last Vertex, I say nothing wrong with that.

@Curtis_Waguespack
Looks like it has indeed been addressed, I also have no problems with twisting arrow heads after a vertex has been removed.

@Anonymous & @stephane.fillion
Did you read the post carefully?
It works fine here, if you want a video, let me know.

Possible point of criticism:
As far as I can see this is not in the IV Help.

According to the IV Help for a Weld annotation there would be an option Delete Vertex, in my case I don't see this option but the method described earlier works just fine here. Either it has to do with settings on my system (Styles etc.) or the IV Help mentions something that doesn't exist.

For a Detail View Connection Line, the option would be there, and sure enough, there is.

Maybe I'm not looking hard enough otherwise I say change your IV Help and totally fine.

[cadman777]

The way I've always done it with leader/text is RMB on the leader and 'delete'.

Then RMB on the text and 'add vertex'.

It's a PITA, but it works.

[johnmondro4888]

@Anonymous I know this is an old thread but THANK YOU! So many little unintuitive little "features" hidden in the software.