From the course: AutoCAD: Working with Dimensions
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Making leaders
- I want to add some text that is pointing to something in the drawing. The tool for that is called the multileader. Zoom in to the left view down here in the lower left corner. Click multileader up here. Specify the leader arrowhead location by snapping to a point on the sun shade. Then click a point up here for the landing. Type Sunshade and close the M text editor. The command is complete. Click on the object, and you'll see that it has a number of grips. You can use these grips to reposition the object. It automatically pops around to the other side if you drag it over here. As the name suggests, you can add multiple leaders that refer to the same text. Click Add Leader, select multileader, that's this one, and now I'm specifying the arrowhead location. I'll click right here and press enter. This remains the same single object. When I reposition it, the lines stretch and the arrowheads go with it, so they remain pointing directly at what they're targeted to. Let's add a few more…
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