In LDD2 I could draw a leader then press escape to omit the annotation. I can't remember if that was the default setup or if I had to modify a setting to get that behavior. In IntelliCAD 7.1, pressing enter once after drawing the leader segments prompts for the annotation, pressing enter again takes you the options where you can select none, mtext, etc.
Is there a variable that can be changed so that the dimleader command defaults to "none" or "mtext" for the annotation without going into the options each time?
In 2013 w/7.1, I use "Leader with Text". When I'm done with my segments, I just press "ESC". That cancels the command...That's how it works for me.
Thanks, I've always used the "dimleader" command because I prefer the dynamic leader (all the pieces joined like a polyline) but I may have to retrain myself.
I switched from LDD2 to Carlson 2012 running on LDD2 a couple of months back. Now I'm trying to make the switch to running on IntelliCAD so I don't have to load LDD2 on my new machine. All the little differences in how commands and options work are killing my productivity.
I'd just load up LDD and then run Carlson on top of that.
I tried the ICAD version for a while, and it drove me nuts.
For me, Carlson with embedded ACAD is the way to go.
That's what I've done for the past couple of months, but it takes brute force to make LDD2 run on Win7-64 and it's unstable and twitchy. Installing the software for a new scanner yesterday was enough to fubar my LDD2 install.
I'm running Civil Suite so the embedded Acad is not an option and Carlson 2013 won't run on anything older than Acad2004. So, my options are learn to like/live with Intellicad or drop $4000 on a plain jane copy of Acad. Progress is just painful sometimes.
Fight through it; I know it's the little things that really can peeve you off when you start using Carlson w/ ICAD. They will soon become habit. I don't even have to think about the little quirks anymore but at the beginning, they are a pain. I bet if I jumped on an ACAD system today, I would get PO'd that they didn't work the "right" way.
$4000 is a good incentive to figure it out. I'll probably keep relapsing to Acad periodically till things slow down and I have the time to work thru some of the headaches that Icad is giving me.
I always started the command using the icon, but I went back and looked and the actual AutoCAD command is QLeader. Works just like the standard Acad leader command only you get the choice to set the default behavior that occurs after you create the leader segments. Unfortunately Intellicad 7.1 doesn't seem to support that command.
