BIM IN LEGENDS

[Anonymous]

Revit is seriously behind other BIM Software's when it comes to creating legends.

Try to create a Window, Door or other object Legend from the inserted and placed families within your project... Revits Schedules are required to manually locate and insert an object into a legend view. This can becomes a very tedious. time eating process, where you have to identify and insert each inserted family into the legend, via your various schedules.

Why isn't there the ability to quickly filter the inserted legend components instead of having to search for them in the family drop down selector panel?

Why couldn't there be some form of automatic legend creation setup or tool that will insert your required, utilized objects into a legend view?

Revit is BIM right? So why is this still a serious lack of functionality within Revit? 

Please add this feature. It is a necessary requirement to ensure consistent & accurate legends.

[peter.vanorshoven]

Not only this, also for instance legends for piping and stuff, or walls colored by color scheme, should also be made possible in a legend. Indeed here is a lot of work left for Autodesk...!

[dplumb_BWBR]

And, of course, TAG the Legend components

[chris.cromer]

YES!  It's so frustrating going back and forth trying to remember the exact family name of a given door or window!

Having different "filter" abilities, such as sort by Door Type or Mark, or even just narrow the list down to families that were actually placed in the model would be great.

[chrissumner]

I am an MEP user and was working on a project producing a small power drawing. The layout was very congested and used over 50 different elements. For small power (sockets, DB's, data outlets, switched fused connectors etc etc) we use a medium level of detail and set the element to display the annotation symbol because the actual sockets are too small to see and identify on a 1:50 layout.

We can view the actual element in 3D or by changing the visual style to check coordination but the finished drawing is set to view anno symbols only.

To produce the legend I have to go into each family and extract the anno symbol to populate the legend, then write a description. This is such a manual laborious process and I cannot believe that a product so sophisticated as Revit is unable to streamline this process.

Is it that difficult to program a dynamic legend that auto populates as elements are added to the view to which it is linked? Or do Autodesk not realise this is an issue? Colour fill legends work fine and give you the option to only list colours in view, I don't see why legends should be any different?

[Joseph_Peel]

Solution: Dont use Legends, they suck in so many ways!

Use a schedule instead, reading the data from the existing families in the project is a much more 'BIM' solution, compared to 'drawing' a legend.

Add a Type Image to all your families. Add a consistent Description, Add a 'Show In Schedule' shared type parameter to give some control and then schedule them. Schedules can be copied to multiple sheets and automatically only show elements existing in the project.