topic Re: Where is specified which families which legend views contains? in Revit Architecture Forum

Where is specified which families which legend views contains?

ivo_galantai — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:05:27 GMT

So my question is that how should I know if I make a family that will contain all the views for legend?

is there any description of this ?

I created floor based family - no front and back view for it... in LEGEND.. WHY?

Some families can show: Plan/Front/Back
Some families only have : Plan
While other families can show: Plan/Front/Back/Left/Right

It would be really helpful to know this.

Thank you Ivo

Re: Where is specified which families which legend views contains?

barthbradley — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 16:27:07 GMT

I've never given it much thought frankly. It appears to be built-in to the Category the best I surmise. Why does it matter? Are you intending to Categorize your Windows (for instance) as Columns so they will display left, right, front, back and plan in a Legend?

Re: Where is specified which families which legend views contains?

ivo_galantai — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:36:26 GMT

our case was - we created inner fences in an industrial building - our legends are automatized so we don't make elevation views and put on sheet.. etc. waste of time and we don't have much from it.(time).

So floor based GENERIC MODELS (our fences)... DOESN'T HAVE front and back view which we need..

THATS why it would be good to know from what family we have to make it.

even if I changed category to door.. after family was created and no views for it.. no front and back view.. and we had to do the family again...
😞
I searched on the net and at autodesk as well. but no luck to find these..

Re: Where is specified which families which legend views contains?

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:36:08 GMT

If you create it as a generic model then it should give the option to show top and all sides.

Re: Where is specified which families which legend views contains?

ivo_galantai — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 15:46:41 GMT

not true - if its a floor based generic model nope..

Re: Where is specified which families which legend views contains?

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 06:03:59 GMT

I said generic family - not floor based generic family.

Re: Where is specified which families which legend views contains?

barthbradley — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 07:10:31 GMT

Interesting. I'm finding no information out there in "La-La Land" about this whole thing either. Seems to me that it would be published ad nauseum and accessible to anyone with the where-with-all to plug in and turn on. Guess not. Maybe I should research and write a paper on the subject myself. Might even earn me a Pulitzer or a Presidential Metal. It might even make me famous. Think they would name a school or freeway after me? That would be way cool. Okay, I'm definitely putting it in my "bucket list" of things to do before I die -- right next to "bungle-jumping in the nude". Kinky; huh?