Draw Endpoint Leaders

These three commands draw a pair of leaders (crow's feet) at the ends of the line or polyline segment. The segment can be selected from a line, polyline or pair of points. The leaders are drawn above or below the line or polyline, or you can pick a side, depending on which Endpoint Leader command is run. The Pick Side command gives you the ability to place the crow’s feet on a selected side of the line or polyline. Controls to customize the look of the endpoint leaders are accessed through the Annotate Defaults command in the Annotate menu. The Leader Size Scaler determines the maximum length of the leader. If the line segment is too short, the leader is shortened to fit. The actual length of the leader in drawing units is calculated by multiplying the leader scaler by the drawing horizontal scale (i.e.. 0.5*40=20). The Offset Scaler sets the distance that the leader head is off the line endpoint. There are four leader styles to choose from: Arc with Arrow, Arc Only, Dash-Dot-Dash and Dashed. Endpoint leaders can be drawn together with bearing/distance annotation by having the Draw Leaders to Endpoints option on under Annotate Defaults. This Draw End Point Leaders command allows you to add the leaders as another step.

Prompts

Define line by [Points/<select line or polyline>]: Select a line or polyline.
If you wish to define by points, enter "P" at this prompt and pick points on the screen, or type in point numbers. If a coordinate (.CRD) file has not been previously loaded, a dialog will open to allow you to select a coordinate (.CRD) file to process. While using the Point selection method, the last point picked in the selection is stored in default brackets. So if you are working around a boundary, simply press enter to accept the defaults for the first point and move ahead to the next point.

Pulldown Menu Location: Annotate
Keyboard Command: crowft
Prerequisite: None