Please help me. There must be a less cumbersome way to flip over things 180å¡ without having to take a three step process that includes actually typing out 1...8...0... (I know, I am lazy, flame on).
I'm not sure I understand the question, but I think the Mirror command might be a good place for you to explore.
Interesting question. My AutoCAD skills are probably rudimentary in comparison. But if your leader is a simple block, you can tag it and change its rotation under misc.properties from E to W. That will save you from typing two characters....;)
Rotate, turn on Ortho, done!
Use MLEADER?
With AutoCAD's latest antics, and the addition of an employee I've been trying to ween myself off of AutoCAD and start working in Intellicad. I found a neat trick in Intellicad that I don't believe works in AutoCAD. In Intellicad if you need to momentarily toggle Ortho on or off while in a command like Rotate for example, all you have to do is hold down the shift key. As soon as you release the shift key, Ortho goes back to it's prior setting.
PoorPDOP, post: 424330, member: 8412 wrote: Rotate, turn on Ortho, done!
Uh... no, not quite!
Stephen Ward, post: 424334, member: 1206 wrote: With AutoCAD's latest antics, and the addition of an employee I've been trying to ween myself off of AutoCAD and start working in Intellicad. I found a neat trick in Intellicad that I don't believe works in AutoCAD. In Intellicad if you need to momentarily toggle Ortho on or off while in a command like Rotate for example, all you have to do is hold down the shift key. As soon as you release the shift key, Ortho goes back to it's prior setting.
That's how AutoCAD works...
I agree with the suggestion to use the mirror command, or or use multileaders (which have a lot of other benefits as well).
You could create a lisp routine or a button macro to rotate 180 that would let you pick the object, then the base point, then it would rotate. It would take a few minutes to create, but then it would do what you wanted for the future.
You can make you a macro under action recorder 
makerofmaps, post: 424357, member: 9079 wrote: You can make you a macro under action recorder
Well there you go. I never even noticed that. It's been a while since I've had to make a macro.
I don't know if I got the question correctly but it appears to me similar to what we call in mathematics as inverse function. You can use the mirror command about a 45 degree line.
I use "LEADER" command in Carlson and when I move text from the pick-box, the arrow goes with it. And the text changes it's justification based on where it is in relation to the arrowhead. (Man was I happy when I found this!!)
Not sure if that is what you are asking... But it seems to fit the graphic you gave.
makerofmaps, post: 424357, member: 9079 wrote: You can make you a macro under action recorder
"Action Recorder" WTH is that! I've only been using AutoCAD since 1985 - never seen that before...
Jim in AZ, post: 424397, member: 249 wrote: "Action Recorder" WTH is that! I've only been using AutoCAD since 1985 - never seen that before...
It is actually a facility by which you create macros by way of performing the actual command steps. Save a series of command steps into a single file name like a script. All you have to do is to replay it and all the commands in that file are executed like a single command.
amdomag, post: 424400, member: 1683 wrote: It is actually a facility by which you create macros by way of performing the actual command steps. Save a series of command steps into a single file name like a script. All you have to do is to replay it and all the commands in that file are executed like a single command.
Well, I'm going to embarrass myself and go ahead and ask "How long has this been available?"
Here's a lisp routine I wrote in 1996 - save it to a text file with a .lsp extension and load it with appload (I put it in an acad.lsp file that is in the search path) R1 rotates 180; R2 rotates 270; R9 rotates 90. I figure that this routine has saved me at least a week of drafting time in the last 30 years.
***** Below this******
; ROT.LSP By JKinAK 9/96
;
; 3 quick and dirty routines to rotate
; about a prompted pick point by 90, 180, or 270 degrees
; R9 (90), R1 (180), R2 (270)
;
;
;*****************************************************************************
; (R9) - Rotate text 90
;
(defun c:R9 ( / rs )
(setq rs (ssget))
(command "rotate" rs "" pause "90")
) ;defun R9
;
;
; ROT180.LSP
;
;*****************************************************************************
; (R1) - Rotate text 180
(defun c:R1 ( / rs )
(setq rs (ssget))
(command "rotate" rs "" pause "180")
) ;defun R1
;
;
; ROT270.LSP
;
;*****************************************************************************
; (R2) - Rotate text 270
(defun c:R2 ( / rs)
(setq rs (ssget))
(command "rotate" rs "" pause "270")
) ;defun R2
; END
Before t
Jim in AZ, post: 424404, member: 249 wrote: Well, I'm going to embarrass myself and go ahead and ask "How long has this been available?"
If my memory works right, it was in 2009 version.
Tough one, not fully understanding whats needed, match properties works wonders with leaders containing mtext, might be worth looking at.