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Revit Legend - Symbol Schedule

Anonymous — Wed, 13 May 2020 20:16:03 GMT

Adding images to your Revit families will help you to automate your legend. Check my video to see how it would look like. If there is enough people interested I will create a tutorial on how to do it, step by step.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xsPo3u666s&t=4s

Thank you,

Re: Revit Legend - Symbol Schedule

balddude — Thu, 14 May 2020 18:33:02 GMT

How are you doing this? I have be trying to figure out an easy way to do this.

Re: Revit Legend - Symbol Schedule

s.borello — Thu, 14 May 2020 19:18:06 GMT

Would love to see how you did this.

Re: Revit Legend - Symbol Schedule

fabiosato — Wed, 20 May 2020 02:14:03 GMT

Hello,

You have to create small images and load them in your families, and place them in Type Image parameter, for example.

Then you create an schedule with the description and Type image, for example.

Re: Revit Legend - Symbol Schedule

MuirEng — Mon, 25 May 2020 13:05:53 GMT

Nice video! I was thinking about making this a topic at our next Revit MEP electrical virtual community meeting.
(would you be interested in presenting?)

This is how we handle our legends at our firm also.
I have a few tips to pass along.

1. make a yes/no parameter (type) in the family to control if it should show up in the legend. We find this very useful and I think you will too.

2. You can have the legend show other information - we have a column called "Typical Mounting" and use that to explain to the contractor our expectations for mounting heights and such.

Your legends have a better appearance than ours and I would like to learn more about exactly how you generating the type images. You have some side by side symbols, and this is a new idea for me! Do you then have white space in the single column items so prevent them from scaling up? Our main problem is making the symbols of consistent size.

Sample of our legend attached. (This needs some work, we are converting everything to upper case and one type image is missing)

Re: Revit Legend - Symbol Schedule

Anonymous — Mon, 25 May 2020 23:20:04 GMT

I was about to finish a step by step tutorial on this topic. I would love to present it.

I like your suggestions and would implement it in the presentation.

Sizing the images is challenging when using one single schedule. That’s why I have them by category.

When would it be the next virtual meeting?

Re: Revit Legend - Symbol Schedule

Anonymous — Wed, 27 May 2020 14:36:29 GMT

Here is how:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdl2LiuKqns&feature=youtu.be