Legend Tools

What it does

A Revit legend view shows symbols; it can't be tagged or dimensioned, and it drifts from the model. These tools take the other route: they place genuine elements on a grid in their own workspace and annotate them like any other drawing.

Type Legend builds a labelled legend of walls, floors, roofs, ceilings, doors or windows — each with a type tag, a layer dimension and a stack of material tags. Refresh it when the types change and the legend follows.

Highlights

• Type legends for walls, floors, roofs, ceilings, doors and windows — each in the view that shows its build-up.
• Material tags name every layer; membranes get called out by text.
• Only the types actually used, or every type that exists — your choice.
• Samples live in a legend design option, below the model, out of the way of real work.
• Refresh rebuilds a legend after types change.
• Place Family Legend lays out families or types on a grid from a picked point.
• Hosted families get transparent LEGEND HOST samples so anything can be legended.
• Text Types places a sample of every text type with its size, font and leader.
• Workset 3D creates a 3D view per workset to see what's filed where.

Before you start

• Type Legend can place its legend on a sheet for you — decide whether you want new or existing sheets.
• Workset 3D needs a workshared model.
• The legend elements live in a design option; check design option visibility if they appear somewhere unexpected.

Quick start

1. On the Legend panel, choose the legend you want to build.
2. Pick the category, what goes in, the layout and the annotation.
3. Build it — then Refresh Legend whenever the types change.

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