A question came up the other day, concerning Plumbing Lines and the “Label Curves” that AutoCAD MEP provides to label those Plumbing Lines. The request was to be able to be able to label a short Plumbing Line – one shorter than the label itself – by offsetting the label and connecting the label back to the Plumbing Line with a leader.
The results of some quick research suggested that Label Curves do not have a leader option, when offset from the Plumbing Line that they are labeling. I am not sure if there is some inherent limitation here, or it just was never part of the specification for the object. They certainly have many useful features, like masking the Pluming Line, if desired, and repeating at a specified distance or a specified number of times – but no leader.
It occurred to me that, for the stated case of a short Plumbing Line, that the masking and repeating features were not necessary, and that a Schedule Tag, which can have an integral leader, could be created that looks…
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