I need a leader with two arrows coming off of it. Is there an option for this in Rhino, or do I just need to draw the second arrow manually?
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Hi -
There is no option for that in Rhino, no.
-wim
Hi,
Any plans to add this feature? This would be really neat for drafting!
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Here’s a workaround I use for this.
Dual leader workaround.3dm (2.5 MB)
Another workaround -
- Make the first leader with text.
- Make all the succeeding leaders without text (it is not required, just hit enter when the text box comes up) and snap the last point of each to some point on the first leader. Then Group all the leaders.
To edit the text in the grouped leader, Ctrl+Shift+left click on the text part (within-group selection) then edit the text in the Properties panel. To edit the leader lines, again Ctrl+Shift+left click on the line part, F10 to turn on control points, them move where you want (or delete, etc.).
MultiLeader.3dm (319.8 KB)
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This works to place additional leadersto the opposite end of the of the first, as well.
Hi @keshavanarayan82,
Thanks for asking.
It is already on tracker’s feature request list.
It will not make it for Rhino 8, but I will add your vote for a future Rhino.
Sincerely,
Mary Ann Fugier
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Please add my upvote as well for this @mary , thank you!
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Even with multi-leaders in AutoCAD I still use disassociated leaders. It’s faster especially if you make some sort of macro. But also clumsier. If you want to attach to anywhere on the text then you can’t use multi-leaders anyways.
I created something of similar functionality for Rhino. But the code has limited testing especially in R8 since I’ve done next to no testing. This post gave me an excuse to try it out in R8 and it seems to work.
The code itself is inflexible and the leader types are hard-coded. But if you’re okay with Visual Studio it’s very easy to change the leader arrow type, and/remove commands, etc…
If anyone’s interested I’ll share the code but with the caveat being the limited testing.
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I like how Bluebeam supports multi-leaders.
You Shift+Left Click on the control point at the intersection of the straight line connecting to the text and the leader arrow and then you can add as many extra leaders as you want.
But it’s nice in that you can also hold shift while placing the leader arrow to snap planar 0, 45, 90, 135, 180, etc. angle.
And the leader will preview the position that it comes off of the text if you are positioning the leader arrow on the opposite side of the previous leader arrow for example. I think there’s a way to delete the extra leaders too, perhaps with a modifier key, but I forget the key combo.
Here’s a little video of that functionality:
Intuitively though it is a little awkward to remember to create a new leader arrow you need to hold Shift over an existing leader arrow control point.
A better implementation in my opinion would to have that functionality (to add an arrow of an existing branch) AND to be able to use the modifier key to hover over a text bounding box “snap” vertex like bottom middle, top middle, left middle, etc. and be able to drag a new leader arm/branch off of that snap location.
In this crude example the blue dots are the text “middle” snapping points, so when you hover over a leader text these could appear and if you click one it will add a new leader line off that location, then prompting you to click the next point of where to connect the leader to.
Yes please! Multileaders! Add my vote.
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One more for me, too.
Thanks. I’ve added a note to [RH-66328].
-wim
Just stumbled over the same issue, add my vote!