The Legend Creator - System Materials tool in the Creators group of the Startup toolset helps create legends for various system materials such as Wall Materials, Floor Materials and Roof Materials.
After the ribbon button is clicked, a dialog will appear.
Setting Groups (from left to right):
Length Unit and Precision: to show length unit and precision set by Revit.
- Unit: to show what length unit is set by Revit.
- Precision: to show what precision of the length unit is set by Revit.
Legend Options: to set options for the coming legend.
- Legend Category: to set which category to take care of.
- Legend Scale: to set what scale to use by the legend.
- Legend Name: to set the name of the legend.
- Rows Per Array: to set how many rows to have in each array in the legend.
System Material Options: to set options for system materials.
- Level Concern to indicate on which level the system materials appear; can be All.
- Host Length: to set the host length of system elements in the view showing materials.
Form Options: to set options for the form of the legend.
- Draw Form: to indicate to draw form.
- Draw Header: to indicate to draw header.
- Draw Title: to indicate to draw title.
- Hor. Margin: to set the horizontal margin for legend cells.
- Ver. Margin: to set the vertical margin for legend cells.
- Inner Line Style: to set the style for inner lines.
- Outer Line Style: to set the style for outer lines.
Text Options: to set options for texts in the legend.
- Cell Text Style: to set the style for cell texts.
- Header Text Style: to set the style for header texts.
- Title Text Style: to set the style for title texts.
Legend Columns: to set content and looking for each legend column
- Column #: to indicate the number and position of the column.
- Data Type: to indicate the data type (Property or Parameter).
- Data: to indicate what data to care for by the column.
- Display: to indicate what display to use in the legend for the data.
- Align Mode: to indicate what alignment (Left/Center/Right) to apply.
- Sort by Me: to sort legend rows by the data value of this column, if checked.
- Looking: to indicate what the column content may look like in the legend.
Types of Concern: to list out all types of concern as specified by category/level/sheet
- Line: each line can be checked; their order can be changed through simple drag & drop
- Buttons: Check All/UnCheck All/Show Checked/Show UnChecked/Invert Chosen/Show All
Buttons (from left to right):
- Erase Chosen Columns: to erase chosen/highlighted columns from the grid.
- Add New Column: to add a new column to the grid.
- Order Columns: to re-order columns based on their number (#) specifications.
- Cancel: to dismiss the dialog without doing anything to the model.
- OK: to close the dialog and create the legend into the model accordingly.
If the OK button is clicked, the legend will be created accordingly. The content of an example legend may look as follows.
The legend rows in this case are sorted by the first Type Mark column as specified in the Legend Columns grid. Each mark is aligned to the center of each cell as also specified.
The second column shows the system symbol name. It is also aligned to the center of each cell.
The Top View and Materials column display the most important system elements and their materials. The material contents are demonstrated by material tags and are from material descriptions. If no such material description is available, a question mark will be displayed by material tags. The Material Descriptions Editor in the Material Organizer group of the Gadgets toolset can help edit all material descriptions through many ways in a central place.
The system materials can be presented in another way, with multiple lines of text and detailed thickness information instead of materials tags. The option can be specified in the Looking field of the View & Materials column. Here is another example.