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Enable tag and dimension in legend view.

Enable tag and dimension in legend view.

there is something annoying that makes many of my colleagues create a "legend" phase for just for legend purpose.

 

 

For instance, we can tag material and layers on a wall composition , but why couldn't we dimension the overall width or even tag the typeMark of the wall?

 

who use only material tag? 

132 Comments
Kev_D
Collaborator

This is a much needed addition. We can't simply draw lines on the edge of a wall and dimension to them, only for the wall to change width and then the legend is wrong. We have to go into the Legend and make the change. This is not BIM. I see so many additions made to Revit 2022, and although some are great, the ability to dimension properly (and tag) in a Legend is much more important. It reduces so much time double checking things in Legend views after something is changed in the Model. I will not introduce a new Phase as other posts have suggested to deal with this. Please introduce this asap @autodesk.

simo74
Contributor

Time goes by....nothing

jdcarlingJQBC3
Enthusiast

HI Autodesk. please release this feature already. I have paid for countless useless plug ins and errors because IT IS NOT BIM. Please add taggable legends like this week. Skip Dynamo. Dynamo is pretty much useless we need actually solutions. I've written dynamo scripts and really it needs to be a solid integral part of this software.

Anonymous
Not applicable

Autodesk will not care about adding such features until their sale numbers drop

Andersorum
Explorer

I agree with this too.

Kevin.Bell
Advisor

It’s Really frustrating in the BIM environment to be able to parameterise everything and then have to write it out manually as text in a legend because Revit doesn’t support tagging legend components…

 

Come on AutoDesk, show Legends some love, they’re archaic in Revit and sorely in need of an update.

info
Explorer

we would like to tag a window and door frame in a window and door legend

jdcarlingJQBC3
Enthusiast
Agreed. This should be a top priority.
WM_Ron_Allen
Collaborator

Agreed- sucks and is broken. Agree should be fixed along with typing, sub typing, and open-source definitions for the basis of storage and modification of data.

 

As with any other software there are work arounds. Easiest is a "Pre-construction" phase which hosts doors, windows, walls components, etc. that can be added in to legends. Effective and easy to filter out.

Kev_D
Collaborator

Can someone from Revit, preferably a decision maker or a developer, please explain in detail why this can't be done. Maybe we are all missing something, but it seems like a simple fix that has been required for a long time. Revit is a tool that enables you to extract information from it, but is only as good as the information you put in. So why would the developers allow Families to be dropped on Legend Views without being able to Tag them so you can be confident on the information being provided/submitted from the Revit model. Again, there has to be a reason, so can someone please explain it.

Arjunsingh29
Explorer

Still nothing in 2023 Revit

jdcarlingJQBC3
Enthusiast
Dag!!!
atis.sed
Advocate

What is most absurd, is that even in Autodesk own Legend example images there are Tags and Texts, probably written in dumb text note manner. This is BIM in 2022, jesus christ. What is the point of legend if you cannot tag elements shown there?! 

 

And this is not even on the public roadmap! https://trello.com/b/ldRXK9Gw/revit-public-roadmap 

 

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2021/ENU/Revit-D...

 

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2014/ENU/Revit/f...

oboilard
Community Visitor

J'aimerais que l'on puisse étiqueter à l'aide d'un keynote un composant de légende.

 

I would like to be able to label a legend component using a keynote.

 

SNHAHarle
Participant

When are Autodesk going to wake up and put this on the roadmap!  It's over 6 years since this glaringly obvious requirement was posted.


jdcarlingJQBC3
Enthusiast
Amen!
tomQ4KFN
Contributor

We need to be able to schedule and tag elements in legends, e.g. wall-types.  We use the wall-type 'type mark' to reference different wall-types throughout the project.  However, there is no way to reference this to a legend, which seems like a really basic principle.

skyeg321
Collaborator

My tags work placed as a symbol under annotate tab.

sarah.freyVPSTK
Participant

Hallo Zusammen,

 

derzeit gibt es keine Beschriftungsfamilie für Legendenkomponenten.

Das wäre jedoch von großem Vorteil, um z.B. die verschiedenen Wandtypen differenzieren zu können.

 

Eine Alternative könnte eine Erweiterung des Farblegenden-Tools bieten.

Hier hat man zur Zeit lediglich Zugriff auf Raum-Parameter.

Könnten man z.B. auch Wand- oder Deckenparameter mit entsprechender Farblegende darstellen, könnten so einfach und übersichtlich Unterschiede graphisch dargestellt werden.

 

havard.leding
Contributor

16 years using Revit and 4 years since i did this post. 530 votes 63 comments and... nothing. Cant say we didnt try 😅

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