Add dimensions to individual legend components to make them more descriptive.
You can add dimensions to individual legend components using the Dimension tool.
You can dimension to most lines within a legend component. However, you cannot dimension to host components, such as walls, ceilings, and floors. Likewise, you cannot dimension system family components within a legend.
Window legend with first window dimensioned
Legend Examples
Some typical legends include the following:
- Annotation Legend. Displays sheet annotations such as section heads, level markers, spot elevation marks, elevation symbols, keynote symbol, revision tag, element tags, and other symbols that do not represent model objects. Each symbol has an associated piece of descriptive text. All symbols are shown at printed size.
- Model Symbol Legend. Displays symbolic representations of model objects with some descriptive text.
Typical elements are electrical fixtures, plumbing fixtures, mechanical equipment, and site objects.
- Line Styles Legend. Displays a line in a selected line style and text identifying what that line style represents on drawings.
Examples include fire rating lines, property lines, setback lines, electric wiring, plumbing, utilities, and center lines.
- Materials Legend. Displays a sample of a cut or surface pattern and text identifying the material associated with that pattern.
- Phasing. Shows a section of wall drawn with a selected graphic override and identifying text.
Legends can be added to multiple sheets. Any elements that can be placed in drafting views, such as detail lines, text, dimensions, and filled regions, can be placed in a legend.
Legend views are unique to each project, and therefore cannot be transferred from one project to another.
You can use legend views as graphical palettes, which means that you can select a component in a legend view and use the Create Similar or Match Type tools to place the component in another view.