Place label leaders under the feature

Question

Is there a a way to make it so the leaders on a label created with either engine start from underneath the geometry?

This keeps happening and it looks bad, so I'd like to avoid it .

Thanks!

abaldenweck@blm.gov_BLM_EGIS · Answer

I found a working solution, but it's not as good as automatic.

Leader Line Feature Offset - Esri Community

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RobertBorchert · Answer

I should also note, I did that in ArcMap and they participated in a Geometric Network.  I could then just grab the label point and the leader would move with it. That particular GIS database was only used to generate PDF and Paper Map books so I was able to do it all at the same scale.

Another option for it was to create a point for each meter.  Then using a domain to make it visible or not visible. I then offset it by 5 feet and used the XY to line tool to generate leaders. Rebuilt the geometric network. Each leader was the same length give or take an inch.  I used a definition query to keep the label off if the length was less then 6. So If I moved the point out a foot it would turn on. The nice thing about using the label points was every label would stay were it was.

Fortunately I no longer do that.

abaldenweck@blm.gov_BLM_EGIS · Answer

That's a good idea, thank you for suggesting it.