Drawing a line with one or two arrow ends

[titech]

Please help me, I am now using AutoCAD 2007 and I am a new AutoCAD user. How can I draw a vector or a line with one or two arrow ends in AutoCAD ? It is really simple to do that in MS Word ! Thanks!

[Alan Cullen]

You could have arrow heads as a block and insert them....or you could draw a LEADER.

[titech]

Thank you Alan Cullen, now I can use the LEADER command. Still I have another question, I will post a new thread!

[Gar]

You could draw a line of the correct length you want, then make a short dimension line, explode that small dimension, move the arrows of the exploded dimension line to where you want, and then delete the left-overs of that exploded dimension line...

[Rockford]

A dbl arrowed Dynamic Block with a Stretch and Rotation feature would be easy to create and use. You can then assign it to a tool palette from which you can drag it into your current drawing.

Easy...

[lrding]

Rockford, that sounds perfect... how might one create such a tool?

[ReMark]

Irding: The post you are inquiring about is over two years old.

I notice you are using AutoCAD 2000. If that is correct then you will not be able to use Dynamic Blocks since they were not a feature that release.

[Tankman]

tichech, welcome to the forums, where are you posting from?

Use the "leader" command; properties set what you want!

[ReMark]

Not you too Tankman. titech posted in 2007. With just 3 posts I'm pretty sure he's been busy doing something else.

[alanjt]

Here's something quick and simple:

(defun c:DblArw (/ #Pnt1 #Pnt2)
  (and (setq #Pnt1 (getpoint "\nSpecify leader start point: "))
       (setq #Pnt2 (getpoint #Pnt1 "\nSpecify next point: "))
       (not (command "_.leader" "_non" #Pnt1 "_non" #Pnt2 "" "" "_none"))
       (command "_.leader" "_non" #Pnt2 "_non" #Pnt1 "" "" "_none")
  ) ;_ and
  (princ)
) ;_ defun