- Once again, we're in our metal plate 0, 0, 2.DWG file.
And you'll remember in the previous video
we set up our multi leader style.
Now, just before we start, do a quick sanity check,
home tab on the ribbon
make sure we are using our dimensions layer there,
as our current drafting layer.
And then go back to the annotate tab.
You want to make sure that your multi leader ideally go
on something like a dimensions layer
or possibly even a separate multi leaders layer.
I'm using the dimensions layer for now
because it keeps consistency in this particular drawing.
It's up to you though,
if you want to create a separate multi leaders layer,
you go for it.
So what we're going to do do is we're going to place
some multi leaders now, and I'm just going to place them
over the appropriate hole numbers.
So you're noticing our table, that we created earlier.
Hole number one is the circular hole type.
So what I'm going to do, I'm going to go to multi leader here,
in the leaders panel on the annotate tab on the ribbon.
And I'm going to specify a leader landing location.
Which is going to be about there.
Try not to snap to anything.
And as I bring that out,
can you see it's asking for a leader Arrowhead location.
Something a bit weird going on there,
Isn't there.
So I'm going to right click,
and I'm just going to cancel that.
Because, you can alter which bit
of the leader that goes on the drawing first.
If I go to multi leader again and right click,
I want leader Arrowhead first in this case.
I'd obviously done it previously in a different way.
So leader Arrowhead first, that's the default as well.
If you haven't used it for the first time.
Now, I can position where the dots going to go.
Now, I drag the leader and click,
and you can see there it's asking for a tag number.
That's that little circle in the multi leader style.
That's going to be hole number one,
I click okay,
and there's my little bubble with a number one in it.
What I'm going to do now is I'm going to
place another multi leader,
over here,
pick a point about here, click drag
and I'll put another number one there, like so.
So there's my two circular holes.
Now what's really nice, in the multi leader command,
is I can now, if I want to align these
so I can use a line here, pick the two multi leaders
like so, enter to confirm
and select the multi leader to align to.
I'm going to go for the lower one.
And what I'll do is I'll just drag
along to the right a little bit.
Can you see the polar tracking kicks in.
Click there and they now align nicely with each other.
I'm going to pan down ever so slightly.
What I'm going to do now as well is place another
multi leader,
pick a point about here
like so, and click there.
Put another tag number in,
which is tag number two this time,
and I'll okay that like so,
and that's my slotted hole in the table.
Now, one of the things you can do is you can
either add leaders and remove leaders as well.
You can also collect leaders too.
So collecting is very easy.
If I click on collect,
select the two multi leaders like so,
so I'm going to go one and two.
Press enter to confirm and can you see it collects
to the last multi leaders selected.
So I've now got one and one.
Now, if I wanted to take this one,
back over to the right again
I simply right click, once I've selected it and go move,
pick the center snap and we'll use the polar tracking
take it over here, click there.
I can move them around quite happily
and then use add leader.
I'll add leader to that multi leader there.
And I'll pop that back in there
trying not to click to that center snap.
There we go.
And I can add as many
of those as I like, until I press enter.
And also if I remove a leader as well,
I can remove a leader like so,
if I remove the leader from that,
specify a leader to remove,
press enter to confirm it removes the leader.
I can add a leader again
select the multi leader, pop it back again.
Click there like so, enter to finish.
There's multi leaders for you,
very quick and easy to use.
They are annotative, those particular multi leaders.
So, luckily, we've kept our one to two,
annotation scale there.
So if I now go to the plan view in the layout tab
my multi leaders are displaying nicely as well.
I'll go back to the model tab now
and that's pretty much all
of the basics that you need to start annotating your designs
in your AutoCAD drawings.