Callouts Connected to Objects
Callouts can be connected to the objects they point to and vice-versa. The connection between callouts and objects is both logical, based on an internal object/callout link list, and graphical, based on the anchor point of the callout leader line.
Connected callouts and connected objects look like regular callouts and objects, but they behave differently. For example, if you:
• Cut or copy connected objects or callouts, then paste them, their object/callout links will be broken. To link them, reapply the object/callout connection procedure. (See
Editing Objects with Connected Callouts.)
• Right-click a connected callout, and then click Select connected objects from the context menu—you select all objects that are connected to that callout.
You can create connected callouts manually by drawing, or, generate them automatically from an object list.
• To create connected callouts manually, use the
Connected callout tool
to:
◦ Draw connected callouts for selected objects.
◦ Connect an unconnected Callout object to an object in the drawing.
• To create connected callouts automatically, use the Generate callouts for objects command in the Objects window menu with Link callouts to objects selected. This command can generate connected callouts for:
◦ All objects in the illustration.
◦ All objects in a list you import into (Place in) the illustration.
A connected callout and the object it is connected to must be on the same layer. If you connect a callout to an object on a different layer, the callout is moved to the object’s layer after they are connected.