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Using multileaders

Using multileaders - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using multileaders

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- [Voiceover] We're staying in the 09_Dimensioning.dwg file, and as usual, I'm sure you're following along with your own version of the file saved locally on your machine. Now, what we're going to look at now is the final method of annotating when you're using AutoCad 2017, and that's using what they call multileaders or leaders, as they are known now. Now, multileaders are excellent tools to allow you to place things like bubbles to number up. So let's say in this case rooms in our drawing, or it may be on a mechanical drawing, you need to point to mechanical parts perhaps that have a parts list. So, what we're going to do, we're going to look at multileaders. Now, again, this is in the annotate tab on the ribbon, and you need to make sure that you're on the appropriate layer, which in this case will the be A-ANNO-DIMS layer. It's this way here that you can see on the dimensions panel, and the leaders panel is here on the annotate tab on the ribbon. Now, you can see that we've got…

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