multileaders

This really should be fixed!!  Multileaders have been in about since AutoCAD 2008, and are in common usage. Not being able to work at all with a native dwg object leaves users with potentialy a lot of work, it could cost you hours on drawing(s) where they have been heavily used. It is quite common to find drawings where all the leaders have been created as a multileaders as a matter of course.

Attach a routine that will convert multileaders to a block using a mechanism similar to that described by Arturo. Uses the clipboard to for the conversion process instead of wblock. This is of course is more of a kludge than a fix, but at least it makes these objects somewhat editable.

Personally I am shunning all Belgian beers until this is fixed, and my Mother had to forgoe he Belgian chocolates on Mothers day this year.

Regards,

Jason Bourhill

CAD Concepts

Thanks a lot Roy. This one worked like a charm !

I was playing around with EditMultiLeaderText.lsp last night myself. But even after modifying it to account for the new entity name I couldn't get it to work on the sample in the attached drawing.
And using this code:
(vla-put-textstring (vlax-ename->vla-object (car (entsel))) "abc")
Does change the text but also messes up the leaders.

@ Jason: I am a little confused by your mentioning of dimensions. In most cases xdata attached to dimensions means that the dimension has overrides. The only exceptions I currently know of are radial and diametric dimensions where xdata is used for the extension line.

BTW: the attached drawing also messes up the preview in the BricsCAD 'Open Drawing' dialog box.

@ Jason: Thanks for the explanation.
I downloaded the drawing from my previous post from another forum some years ago. Viewing it in BricsCAD V18.1 I was surprised by the level of complexity. Seeing your AutoCAD srceengrab it appears to be even more complex. I can understand the need for an entity consisting of text and multiple arrows, but it seems to me that only very few people really need this many options.

MLEADER support is a work-in-progress, so far we only support display of these entities, no editing or creation yet, though we are working on that: we would like to add full support for Mleaders and Mleader styles in V14. It is less straightforward than one could hope for, but we'll do the best we can.

It looks like this is still in progress, at least with regard to editing multileaders created in Autocad. I can't find any way in v14 to edit the text of a multileader.

I have no interest in creating multileaders. I never liked them. I just want to be able to work with multileaders that other people have created, preferably by converting them to leaders and mtexts. A lisp custom command called MLDR2LDR, posted at another forum, does that. It converts all the multileaders in the file to leaders and mtexts.

The only problem is that in some files it makes all the multileaders disappear. I can't figure out why. I tested one such file with Autocad and found that it didn't make them disappear; it converted them correctly. But it changed the dimscale of the leaders.