Editing balloons

The label of a balloon is a symbol (made from individual objects) and its pointer is a line.

You can move a balloon or a leader, edit the text in a balloon, add additional leaders, and modify dog-legged leaders.

To move a balloon:

1. Click and drag the balloon to a new position.

   In this example, the balloon is dragged up and left:

   

2. Release the mouse button to confirm the new position.

   The leader is updated automatically:

   

To move the leader of a balloon:

1. Click and drag the end of the leader to a new position.

   In this example, the end is dragged to the right of the balloon:

   

2. Release the mouse button to confirm the new position.

   The leader is moved to the new position:

   

   The position where the leader touches the balloon is updated automatically.

To edit balloon text:

1. Select the label of the balloon.

   

   The label is a symbol.

2. Click Home tab > Utilities panel > Convert > Symbol, to convert the symbol to text.
3. Edit the text.

To add additional leaders to a balloon:

1. Select the label of the balloon.

   

2. Double-click on the label to display the Add Leaders dialog:

   

3. Click one of the leader heads on the dialog.
4. Click the position where you want the pointer of the leader:

   

   The new leader leaves the balloon from the nearest edge of the label.

   You can force the leader to leave the corner of a balloon with a box label. This is done by turning on the Put leaders at frame corner option on the Balloon page of the Options dialog.

   A new leader is drawn from the balloon:

   

5. Continue adding more leaders by selecting a type of leader and then entering its position.
6. Click OK to close the dialog.

You can also:

• use the options on the balloon-specific Text toolbar, to modify the text, counter and leaders of balloons during creation.
• double-click on a balloon to display the Edit Balloon dialog:

  

  Use the options on this dialog to edit the items in the balloon:

  Edit Text — The current balloon label text is displayed. Edit the text to change the label.

  — Refreshes the text shown in the balloon in the graphics window.

  Add Leaders — Displays the Add Leaders dialog.

  Note: If you double-click a geometric tolerance balloon, the Geometric Tolerance dialog is displayed.