leader 'tails' disappeared

[amorican]

i'm not sure 'tail' is the right term. but as you can see from the screen capture, they all suddenly disappeared on me. any idea what i might have done?

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you've be a life saver if you can help me!

someone suggest the Multileader settings, but i dont think that applies to these leaders. the only style i have under multileader is standard, and any chages i make dont effect the leaders.

it's Autocad 2011.

[Dadgad]

Welcome to CADTutor.

Enter QLEADER at the commandline, then enter S for settings,
and you will see the LEADER definition dialogue box.
My guess is that your maximum number of points for the leader has been
set to 2, perhaps while using a lisp program which was cancelled midprocess, thus leaving your setting changed. and unrestored to your previous setting.
Set it to 3 or more, and you may want your tail set to land horizontally?

The multileader settings also include similar options, but as you pointed out QLEADERS are not MULTILEADERS.

[amorican]

thx dadgad.

first, thanks for showing me these settings. completely forgot about them. unfortunately, they are already set the way you recommend. and when i change them (just to see what happens) nothing happens.

any more ideas?

[Dadgad]

It sounds to me like they may be ANNOTATIVE, which I never use.
If you click on one of them, and check PROPERTIES, what does it say it is?

What layer are they on?
Did you create them, and know they are QLEADERS, or might they be MULTILEADERS drawn by someone else,
which you assumed are QLEADERS?

[Dadgad]

If you just change the settings, I don't believe the way they are displayed will change, you will need to redraw them to have those changes applied.

[amorican]

annotative is set to 'no'. i dont know for sure how they were drawn. i'm thinking i copied them another drawing.

the problem is, they've been fine forever....then WHAM, something happened and i can't figure out what it is. if i have to go back and draw all new leaders....well, tomorrow is gonna be a looooooong day.

[Dadgad]

Has this drawing been saved on Autocad 2013 perhaps?
Or might you have copied them from a drawing which was?

Can you post a bit of the drawing, with any proprietary info stripped out, I will be happy to take a look at it for you.
All you would need to do is make a copy of it, and delete the majority of it.
If you post it I am sure we can figure it out.

Did you confirm that it is a QLEADER?

[Dadgad]

You might POSSIBLY be able to use the MATCHPROP (match properties) command, if you can create one how you want them to be, then select them all.

[amorican]

i didnt confirm it was a qleader, and matchprop doesnt help - that was one of the first things i tried.

here's a sample of the file

[Dadgad]

The STANDARD style of MULTILEADER created the style which I suspect you are missing, which includes a predefined horizontal LANDING (tail).
You can quite easily check this hypothesis by creating one, and I suspect you will agree with me.

I am not sure, but since you say they previously looked differently, I still suspect that these might have been affected by possible exposure to Autocad 2013.
I can't figure out how else they might have morphed into straight leaders, they don't even do that if you EXPLODE them.
You can recreate them by using the standard MULTILEADER style, although you will want to make some minor modifications using the MULTILEADER STYLE MANAGER,
which you can find on the end of the MULTILEADER toolbar.