Transferring Legend Views

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to transfer legend views from one project to another?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

No, you cannot save a legend view using the Save to Library > Save Views in the File menu, but you can copy and paste the components or symbols from the legend view into another projects legend view. I recommend creating or placing your legend views into the project template file.

Mel Persin, AIA
AEC Technology Consultant
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[Anonymous]

Copying and pasting is the approach I ended up taking... I was just hoping for a more graceful solution! The legends are all going to end up in the template file - it's just that they were not all finished when several projects were started. Now that they are, I had to update the project files.

Anyway, thanks for the response.

[dreesera]

In Revit 2021, I was able to copy Legend elements to a new drafting view and save the view from Revit to import into a different project.  Then copy/cut then paste those elements into a new Legend view under the desired project.

Not sure if there was limitations in earlier versions of Revit for doing this.

[Bramdejong1985]

There is actually a new add-in I found out this month called Transfer Legend.

It basically allows you to copy specific and/or all legends (checkbox for each one) from a linked file, to your own project. 

So you could link a Revit file you need the legends from, and un-link after taking the legends. 

It had helped me from doing tedious work. 

[lloyd.perkins7BDY7]

pyrevit has a command that does this also

[curtisridenour]

Pyrevit does do this but it does not seem to copy the reference planes sadly.

[ToanDN]

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@curtisridenour wrote:

Pyrevit does do this but it does not seem to copy the reference planes sadly.

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Since Revit 2022, you can copy paste Legend view directly from one sheet of one project to another sheet of another project with everything intact.

[curtisridenour]

Yes, but my template is in Revit 2021 sadly.

[ToanDN]

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@curtisridenour wrote:

Yes, but my template is in Revit 2021 sadly.

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Too bad then.  If I were you I wouldn't invest too much time in the old template and prepare to move to a newer one.

[curtisridenour]

i wish our client would allow us to.

[ToanDN]

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@curtisridenour wrote:
i wish our client would allow us to.

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What I did prior to Revit 2022: add both ref planes and detail lines to Legend views so that when transfer using pyRevit, I can recreate the ref planes based on the detail lines.

[curtisridenour]

I just did the same thing. I am resisting the urge to write a dynamo script to copy the reference planes to lines and lines to reference planes.

[DEP_ABC]

There is two ways to approach this from my knowledge.

A method - works in RVT22 and later versions since from RVT22 we can copy Sheets with elements on the sheet.

B method - works in RVT21 and older versions, but can be used in later versions, if you don't need sheets with Legends on it. 

X - project with Legend(s)

Y - project that missing Legend(s)

Both projects needs to be open in same Revit session.

A method:

1: X project - Place legend(s) you want to copy on the sheet(s)

2: X project - Select sheet(s) in the Project Browser, hit CTRL+C.

3: Y project - open Y project and hit CTRL+V, klick OK.

Sheets will be created, legends will appear on sheets and in Legends section.

B method

1: X project - Place legend(s) on the sheet(s).

2: X project - Select legend on the sheet hit CTRL+C. (In here Revit copies Legend as Viewport)

3: Y project - open Y project and on any sheet, hit CTRL+V, klick OK and either you can place the legend(and delete) or you can cancel command, legend should be already copied to your Legends section.

Hope everything make sense what I wrote 😄 

Let me know if there is mistake so i can fix it 😉