Drawing Connected Callouts
To draw connected callouts for selected objects, use the
Connected callout tool
. (See
Callout.)
1. Open a file with one or more objects.
| Drawing elements must have object information assigned before you can connect callouts to them. |
2. Select the
Connected callout tool. If no objects are selected, the cursor becomes an object selection arrow tip
.
3. Select the object or objects you want to connect the callout to. You can:
◦ Click an object in the drawing area.
◦ Click an object ID or object name in the Objects window tree.
◦ SHIFT-click to add objects to the current selection.
◦ CTRL-click a selected object to select its parent object.
◦ (For objects directly below the current layer only): Use the
Arrow
tool to drag a selection rectangle or ALT-drag to lasso
objects in a selection area.
4. After you select objects, the cursor becomes an isometric
symbol.
If you want to change your selection:
a. Press ESC; the cursor changes back to an object selection arrow tip
.
b. Select objects again as described in Step 3.
5. While the cursor is an isometric
symbol, draw the connected callout:
a. Click to set the callout leader line’s anchor point location.
b. Drag to set the length and direction of the leader line.
c. Release the mouse button to set the callout text frame location. Releasing without dragging creates a callout text frame with no leader line.
| You can select multiple objects to connect to before you draw the connected callout. However, the new callout’s leader line will only attach to the reference object. So, if you want the leader line to move with a particular object, be sure to select that object first. (See Moving Objects with Connected Callouts.) |
6. When you finish creating a connected callout, the cursor becomes an object selection arrow tip
again. To create another connected callout, repeat this procedure starting at Step 3 above.
