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Text Arrows

2. Starting at the point where you want the with corners that can be adjusted using the
arrow to point, drag to where you want a edit handles. See “Polylines” on page 312.
bend in the leader line and release the
mouse button. A Text Line with Arrow behaves like a
3. Click at the point where you want the Line With Arrow with one exception:
center of the first line of text to display. Text Lines with Arrow are initially placed on
The Rich Text Specification dialog the default Text layer, not the Current CAD
opens. See “Rich Text Specification Layer. See “Layers” on page 184.
Dialog” on page 493.
4. Enter text and click OK. Auto Position Arrows
Click in the same location to create a Rich If either or both ends of a line with arrow are
Text object without a leader. attached to an object, Auto Position Tail and
Auto Position Head will be available in the
If multiple leader lines are specified, click in Line Specification dialog. See “Arrow
the same location to stop adding leader Panel” on page 303.
segments.
The Auto Position options are designed to
The initial alignment of text created with the prevent lines with arrows from crossing over
Leader Line tool depends on the the text or other objects that they are snapped
direction that the leader line was drawn: to. These options snap the ends of a line with
arrow to predefined points on the object(s) it
• Leader Lines drawn from left to right is attached to. If an attached object is moved,
produce text that is right-aligned.
the end of the line with arrow will update so
• Leader Lines drawn from right to left that it is snapped to the closest Auto Position
produce text that is left-aligned. location. Similarly, if the line with arrow is
• Leader Lines drawn from vertically pro- moved, rotated, or resized, its end may snap
duce text that is center-aligned. to a new Auto Position location on an
attached object.
Text Line with Arrow There are four Auto Position locations on a

Text Lines with Arrow can be text object: one at the midpoint of each side.
attached to text, CAD and The Auto Position locations on other objects
architectural objects by selecting CAD> varies by object type.
Text> Text Line with Arrow and then The following image illustrates the behavior
clicking and dragging to draw a line. There is of Auto Positioning. The arrow has the Auto
no limit to the number of text lines with Position Tail option checked, and the tail
arrows that can be attached to an object. end of the line is snapped to the text object.
The endpoints of Text Lines with When the head of the line with arrow is
moved, the tail of the arrow snaps to different
Arrows can be joined to form polylines Auto Position locations on the text object,
maintaining its connection.

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