making a leader w/ an ellipse

[mkh]

I am trying to define a leader using an ellipse (user defined block) to use on electrical dwgs for identifying wiring. I have drawn my ellipse 1 unit long, defined the center of the ellipse as the insert point and set my dimstyle to use that as my leader arrowhead. My problem is that I am getting a gap between my ellipse and my leader line. It looks like ------- 0 instead of ------0 (notice the gap). Does anyone have any good words of wisdom on how I can get this to work?

Thanks for any info.

Mike

 

[R. Robert Bell]

You need the ellipse to be *2* units long, 0,0 being the center, and one end at -1,0.

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R. Robert Bell, MCSE
www.AcadX.com

"mkh" <mikeDOThensonAThawkins-weirDOTcom> wrote:
| I am trying to define a leader using an ellipse (user defined block) to use | on electrical dwgs for identifying wiring. I have drawn my ellipse 1 unit | long, defined the center of the ellipse as the insert point and set my | dimstyle to use that as my leader arrowhead. My problem is that I am getting | a gap between my ellipse and my leader line. It looks like ------- 0 | instead of ------0 (notice the gap). Does anyone have any good words of | wisdom on how I can get this to work? | | Thanks for any info. | | Mike | |

 

[Mark Propst]

If you want the long axis of the ellipse arrow head to be 0.125" when you dimstyle has an arrow head size of 0.125, assuming the ellipse block is drawn with the long axis horizontal (1 unit), make the insertion point of the ellipse block be the right side quadrant of the ellipse. hth Mark