From the course: AutoCAD 2015 Essential Training
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Creating multileaders
Multileaders allow you to call out specific features in your drawing with arrows and text. In this video, you will create and edit multileaders and their style. Open the Architectural6 sample file in the Chapter ten folder, and zoom in to the kitchen. I'd like to have a leader that calls out some information about the refrigerator. Open up this fly out and choose Leader. This uses the m leader command, it says specify leader arrowhead location. I'll click right here on the corner of the fridge. Specify leader landing location. I'll click about here. And I'll type in, appliances to be. Hit enter to go to the next line, and this indicates that we're creating a multiline text object here within the multi-leader. We have all the editing functionality available to us up here. That we have in the mtext object. Appliances to be supplied by tenant. I'll click, Close Text Editor. And the command is done, but the object is far too small. You zoom in here you'll find that the text actually…
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