Offsetting a Level Line from Its Bubble

There may be times when you sketch a level line and want to offset its bubble from the rest of the level line.

  1. Sketch a level line, or select an existing level line.

    The end of the line near the bubble has drag controls.

    Selected level with drag controls

  2. Select and move the end drag control near the bubble to resize the level line.
  3. Click the Add Elbow drag control (), then drag the control to the desired location to move the bubble away from the level line.

    Bubble dragged from level line

    When you move the bubble end out of line, the effect appears only in that view, no other views are affected. The segments created from dragging the bubble have a solid line style. You cannot change this style.

As you drag a control, the cursor snaps at points similar to the neighboring level lines. The cursor also snaps as the segments form straight lines.