- [Instructor] We're staying in our
metal plate 002.DWG file.
And you'll remember a few videos back
when we created the dimension style,
we also defined the Arrowhead for leader lines.
Now, the leader line that you can use,
which is based on your dimension style
is the QLEADER command,
not the multileaders up here that you might see
on the annotate tab on the ribbon.
QLEADER is a different beastie.
And what we're going to do is we're going to utilize it here
on our section view and our side view.
So, you might want to zoom in a bit closer as I've done here.
Not to worried about the text on the right,
but what we're going to do is we're going to just mark up
that this is a slotted hole here on the section view
using a QLEADER, a Quick Leader as they're called.
Now, the best way to get to Quick Leader
is just to type QLEADER like that.
As you can see, there's a little leader line there
with a little lightning symbol
indicating that it is the QLEADER command.
Just press Enter after you've typed QLEADER
and it'll ask for the first leader point.
Now, the leader settings at the moment
are set to multiline text.
How do I know that?
Well, I can right click and I can go to my settings
in this little dialogue box here.
So you can see my annotation type is set to MText.
I can set various settings, including leader line and arrow
and how we attach to the text as well.
I'm just going to click on OK there
and use the default settings.
I'm going to pick a point in this space here.
Don't snap like that to an object snap,
just pick a point there, click,
I'm going to drag up a little bit, click again,
and then I'm going to drag a little sort of
what they call landing across to the right horizontally
using the polar tracking.
When I click the next time,
what you'll find is it'll ask for a text width,
saying, "Specify width of text if you want to."
I'm not going to, I'm just going to press zero
to accept the text width of zero,
which means it can be any length.
And then the first line of my text will simply be
slotted hole, like that.
Type that in and press Enter.
It'll ask for another line of annotation text,
I'm not going to use any.
Press Enter again and there you go,
it tells me it's a slotted hole.
It's that quick and it's that easy.
That's your Quick Leader command in AutoCAD or QLEADER.
That's the leader type that is used
and is based around your dimension style
in your AutoCAD drawings.