# Extracting leader curves from text note

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/extracting-leader-curves-from-text-note/17886>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [January 5, 2018, 11:30am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/extracting-leader-curves-from-text-note/17886 "2018-01-05T11:30:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![saju\_autodesk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/saju_autodesk/32/61838_2.png) [@saju\_autodesk](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/saju_autodesk)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 11:30am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/extracting-leader-curves-from-text-note/17886/1 "2018-01-05T11:30:10Z")

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As a continuation from my previous post  
" [https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/move-text-notes-by-cordinates/17113/10?u=saju\_autodesk](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/move-text-notes-by-cordinates/17113/10?u=saju_autodesk) "  
Is there any way we can extract the curves from text note leaders and use them to automate clearing up views  
like in the image below.

![image](https://cdck-file-uploads-us1.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/e/4/e4997426d7234214fe8c9f22b2382387e3ee57bc.png)

As a first step to it I am tring to extract the elbow point of leaders so that aligning elbows to right and left can make it look neater…!

![image](https://cdck-file-uploads-us1.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/b/c/bca41f37d25aa987d905dfc7ec7199d1f42cc966.png)

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**Author:** ![rdeardorff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@rdeardorff](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/rdeardorff)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/extracting-leader-curves-from-text-note/17886/2 "2018-12-17T19:42:28Z")

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@saju_autodesk

Did you ever get further with this? I am in the process of creating a similar tool but the only nodes I can locate to handle leaders are for tags and not notes.

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**Author:** ![saju\_autodesk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/saju_autodesk/32/61838_2.png) [@saju\_autodesk](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/saju_autodesk)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 11:31am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/extracting-leader-curves-from-text-note/17886/3 "2018-12-18T11:31:27Z")

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Hi @rdeardorff ,  
This page has the final output,check out for " View text aligner" it should have the files…  
[http://sathishportfolio.gitlab.io/pages/computational-design-projects.html](http://sathishportfolio.gitlab.io/pages/computational-design-projects.html)

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**Author:** ![rdeardorff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@rdeardorff](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/rdeardorff)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/extracting-leader-curves-from-text-note/17886/4 "2018-12-18T14:22:19Z")

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@saju_autodesk  
Could you inform me where I can download the “text location” custom node?

Otherwise, thank you so much for sharing your work!

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**Author:** ![saju\_autodesk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/saju_autodesk/32/61838_2.png) [@saju\_autodesk](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/saju_autodesk)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/extracting-leader-curves-from-text-note/17886/5 "2018-12-19T04:27:51Z")

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its the "element.location+ "node from clockwork