Topic: Leader [vertical text]

[Mark]

Looking at the attached image, does anyone know how to make the standard leader use vertical text?

[hendie]

rotate your monitor through 90 °   ?

[hyposmurf]

Not what you exactly looking for but you could just create a quick leader horizontally and rotate the lot.There doesnt appear to be anything in the settings for horizontal text.

[Dent Cermak]

You have heard my tales of woe about not being able to use my LDD3 yet, so I am no expert on the newer AutoCAD by any means. BUT, what happens when you go to "DIMSTYLE" , to the style manager, select the "text" tab, go down to the "Text Placement" block, and set the vertical window to "above"?? That sounds too simple to work though.

Never mind. I just tried that and it didn't work. The only way I have found to do it so far is to set the leader and text at 0 degrees and then rotate them both 90 degrees. Not a good answer. Give Keith a minute and he will have you a lisp thingie.

[CAB]

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^C^Cdview;;tw;-90;;_ucs;w;_ucs;z;90;_qleader;^C^C-view;top;

[Keith™]

well, since CAB beat me to it, I let it ride for a while, but how is thisfor a slight improvement...

put this in a button

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^C^C_ucs;z;90;_qleader;^C^C_ucs;z;-90

Now the entire view does not rotate, only the UCS,  then it rights itself back to the same exact look as before the ucs change.

[Mark]

Thanks I'll give those try.

[Odon]

You could create a new dimension style and suppress dim line 2 and both extension lines.  Use linear to place the dimension (leader).

Odon