Where is specified which families which legend views contains?

[ivo_galantai]

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

[barthbradley]

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?  

[ivo_galantai]

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..

[Anonymous]

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

[ivo_galantai]

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

[Anonymous]

I said generic family - not floor based generic family.

[barthbradley]

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?