Customize Spot Elevation Callouts

• Option 1: Select One of Our Default Spot Elevation Callout Styles
  • Include Multiple Elevations Per MLeader Callout
• Option 2: Create Your Own Custom Elevation Callout Style With Attributes

Along with several of our callouts, we've updated our Spot Elevation callouts to incorporate Multileaders (MLeaders). Although the MLeaders make Spot Elevation callouts much easier to work with, they also prevent the type of customization that was possible with our old Spot Elevation callouts.

More on MLeaders and what they do >

If you want to customize your Spot Elevation callouts, you have some options.

Please note that we've discontinued the FX_OLDSPOTELEVATION command for using the old-style Spot Elevation callouts, as it was causing issues with our code.

Option 1: Select One of Our Default MLeader Spot Elevation Callout Styles

Keep in mind that with the updated MLeader Spot Elevations, you have several options for selecting a Spot Elevation style, as pictured to the left. You are free to use any of these styles.

See our instructions on how to select a different Spot Elevation style.

You can also customize the following components of the MLeader Spot Elevation styles:

• Customize the Text Style used in your Spot Elevations
• Select a different MLeader style

Include Multiple Elevations Per Callout

If you need to include multiple elevations in a single callout, and you want to use the MLeader style of Spot Elevation, you can simply enter multiple elevations (and abbreviations for each one) when placing a Spot Elevation.

 

Our Spot Elevation dialog box allows you to include up to three different elevations for each callout you place. For example, you could include Top of Wall (TW) and Bottom of Wall (BW) elevations in a single callout

In this example, the resulting callout would look like this:

Option 2: Create Your Own Spot Elevation Style With Attributes

If you want to customize your Spot Elevation callouts even further, you can create your own callout style, complete with attributes (dynamic text that allows "smart" blocks to take on different values each time they're inserted into a drawing). We recommend saving this style in the User Defined section of the Discipline Graphics library.

To create your Spot Elevation style, follow our steps to create and save your own Discipline Graphics with attributes. You can base your callout style on any of our existing default callout source blocks, or create it from scratch.

Then, when placing elevation callouts, you'll place them using our Discipline Graphics tool rather than our Spot Elevation tool.