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Zig-Zagged Leader

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I'm not keen enough to be able to contribute much to this forum, but it's the first thing I check on every day when I get home from work. Keep up the good work... I find many of your hints and suggestions very helpful.

I haven't seen this question come up yet, but I don't think of it myself until I get to the drawing phase of my projects. When attaching a note or hole dimension with a leader, quite often it becomes necessary to zig-zag the leader line once or twice to avoid other dimensions or to avoid spreading the views too far apart. I haven't been able to find a way to do the zig-zag. (ie: in Autocad, when you start a leader sequence, you touch the point you are identifying, then attach a new segment of leader each time you click until the final "return" ends the leader portion and starts the text portion of the command.)

I'm using SW2001 so I guess it's possible that this matter is covered in newer releases. I'm stumped and hoping someone has a "work around" for this situation.

Thanks,
Dennis

RE: Zig-Zagged Leader

Bent leaders are actually attached to objects like notes and GDT symbols after the objects are created.

Go to "Insert --> Annotations --> Multi-jog Leader".

In the help, look under "Multi-jog Leader" in the index.

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RE: Zig-Zagged Leader

(OP)
Tick,

Thanks for the super-quick response.

I was hoping I overlooked something as simple as that!
But as it turns out, I can't find a "Multi-jog Leader"  option in my menu selections.
I guess I'll assume it's only available on a more recent release.

Thanks again,
Dennis

RE: Zig-Zagged Leader

I have it in SW2001+.  Maybe that's what the "+" is.

RE: Zig-Zagged Leader

It is in SW2003. Maybe you should update.
SW2004 is coming out this month.

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