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Managing Leader Properties for Label Styles

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Leaders can be displayed when you drag a label away from its default location.

Default label location

Dragged label with leader

A leader line remains attached to the original insertion point of the label and stretches to the label’s new location. A leader can be drawn with an arrowhead and can be a straight line or a spline curve.

Straight leader

Spline leader

Text in a dragged label is stacked according to settings that you specify in the Dragged State tab of the Label Style Composer.

To manage leader properties

  1. In the Label Style Composer dialog box, click the Dragged State tab.
  2. Under Leader, change the Visibility value to True to display leaders when you move a label away from its original placement.
  3. Specify the leader arrow head style and size.
  4. Specify the leader type, either Straight Leader or Spline Leader.
  5. Specify color, linetype, and lineweight properties.

To display/hide the leader

  • Right-click a label and click Toggle Leader.

To display/hide the leader tail

  • Right-click a label and click Toggle Leader Tail.

Toolspace Context Menu

Settings tab: <drawing name> <object collection> Label Styles <label style type name> right-click <label style name> Edit

Dialog Box

Label Style Composer


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