A line drawn from a feature or drawing element to a reference destination.
The destination and origin are defined as parameters and a LineStyle element defines the style in which the leader will be drawn.
The LeaderLine must contain a LineStyle element to describe how the line is to be drawn. The LeaderLine may contain a CoverBox, PointText or Symbol.
If the current feature is an annotation of another feature then the leader line can be drawn between the two feature locations and no CoverBox, PointText or Symbol is needed.
Attributes
Name
Type
Description
destination
Enumerated
Status: Mandatory
The destination or end point of the leader line.
Two values are available: Feature and Parent.
• Feature is the one on which the drawing instruction set is pinned.
• Parent refers to the parent feature if the current feature is a component of a composition association such as a slave or annotation.
If the LeaderLine is coming from a graphic element on the current feature to the current feature then the destination is Feature.
If the LeaderLine is drawn from an annotation feature or graphic element to the real feature then the destination is Parent.
origin
Enumerated
Status: Mandatory
Origin of the leader line.
Five values are available:
• Feature
• Element
• BoxCentre
• BoxCorner
• BoxSide.
Element is the reference position of the child element (e.g. Symbol, PointText).
Feature means use the position of the Feature when the Feature is an annotation of a Parent.
If the LeaderLine is associated with a CoverBox then the origin may be the centre, the closest corner or closest edge (centre) of the associated CoverBox element.
isMasked
Boolean
Status: Optional.
This Indicates whether a LeaderLine should be masked by the graphic elements which are associated with it.
The mask style is always convex_hull.
The mask will be applied to the CoverBox, PointText or Symbol element that is associated with the LeaderLine.
Default is True.
maskBuffer
Decimal
Status: Optional.
Width of the mask buffer that is applied to the associated elements when ismasked = true.