MLEADER align issues

[jweber]

My issue is this: when using mleaders in Cad, I want my text to ALWAYS be left justified. Easy enough. When the leader is pointing left, after copying and editing the text, it works as I would expect. When the leader is on the right, when copying and editing the text, the leaders stay aligned to leader start point, not the insertion point of the text (see JPEG). The only way to correct this that I've found is to use the mleaderalign command after editing, which turns into quite the tedious task.

 

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let there be some ridiculous setting or something I'm missing to fix this. I appreciate any and all feedback, as I'm certain I'm not the only one whose come across this annoying quirk. Thanks.

 

Also, I've attached a .dwg to help anyone try and solve if I'm missing something, or to see firsthand the issue I'm referring to.

MLEADER EXAMPLE.dwg

[Dadgad]

Welcome to CADTutor JW.

That is interesting. I don't use Mleaders, so have never experienced this.

But it definitely presents much better, after you have tweaked it.

 

I just tried for a few minutes, couldn't make it do that with the built in mleader style options, but I bet either RKent or TZFrampton will know how to do it, they are both strong proponents of the multileader art form.

Edited August 18, 2016 by Dadgad

[Dana W]

I really don't think there is a better way around this than MLEADERALIGN.

 

The problem lies in having to tell AutoCad where you want the start of the arrow and then the end of the first leader segment. There is no other way to insert a leader.

 

Then, for the right hand leader, the text is forced to go left of the last leader point you click in. The longest line of text in the leader determines how far to the left it goes, and then you selected the option to extend leader to text, so each landing is different.

 

I have considered this before, and it would be a good thing if AutoDesk would give us the choice to use the left or right upper text box corner for the second hard point of the leader. Unfortunately they did not. It would also be nice to be able to pick a point in the base leader to mleaderalign on, but we can't.

 

Mleaderalign gets you there (almost) because it uses the Justification point in the upper left corner of the text to align to.

 

I draw architectural millwork, and stack align my leaders on both sides of my drawing objects by first drawing a couple of vertical lines to align my landings on. The arrows start at random locations on my objects. I let the auto justify built in handle the text with lefty on the left and righty on the right.