topic Re: Creating a legend programmatically in Revit API Forum

Creating a legend programmatically

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:46:11 GMT

Hello everyone

I was wondering if it is possible to create a legend in the Revit API programmatically and then put legend components in it. I would like the same result as if I would choose View->Legends->Legend in the Revit user interface. I can't find any information about this in the documentation. I am using Revit API 2015. Does anyone know how to do this?

Greetings, Ari

Re: Creating a legend programmatically

Joe.Ye — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 08:12:33 GMT

Revit didn't expose the API to create legend in the legend view so far. The workaround is let your user to create one legend manually using Revit command, then your command can duplicate this existing legend by CopyElement() method, and assign target family to the newly created legend's component type parameter. There is already an API wish logged for this feature. The ticket is : CF-759.

Re: Creating a legend programmatically

harrymattison — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 19:53:34 GMT

Hi Autodesk,

Has there been any progress made on implementing the API for Legend creation?

Thanks
Harry

Re: Creating a legend programmatically

zefreestijl — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 10:56:23 GMT

Hi, I've been searched for hours but only found this wish post,

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/api-for-creating-legend-views-and-legend-components/idi-p/8352835

Anyone knows the work-around to create a new legend view?

Thanks