Symbol with leader

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June 12, 2014
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I've created a symbol with variable text that our department can use in future drawings. Often its placement is "free", but sometimes we will want to use a leader. So I defined a left and right point for leaders.

I would like a bit of an elbow in my leader, rather than having the leader line go straight to the symbol like the pic below. Under "Attributes" it has a check box "Allow Elbow", but... it doesn't. It's almost as though Pro Engineer is promising something it doesn't deliver. Who'd have thought?

This is 5.0.

2D Drawing

Best answer by Mahesh_Sharma

Grahame,

As Antonius mentioned, one option is to add groups in symbol and second option which you can try is Allow Elbow for Symbol Attributes (As shown in video). After placing such symbols, to allow elbow, hover the cursor at elbow location (Cursor will convert to horizontal, instead of Cross) and drag.

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TomD.inPDX

17-Peridot

I would have hoped there was an easier way.

You can draw in the lines and use them in selection groups.

You then assign origins for left and right leaders.

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GrahameWard

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Ugh. Thanks.

Mahesh_Sharma

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22-Sapphire I

Grahame,

As Antonius mentioned, one option is to add groups in symbol and second option which you can try is Allow Elbow for Symbol Attributes (As shown in video). After placing such symbols, to allow elbow, hover the cursor at elbow location (Cursor will convert to horizontal, instead of Cross) and drag.

1_Symbol.mp4