Legend

Tools for creating legends.

• Material Legend

  Creates a material legend based on the materials from a specified floor plan. Specify different settings, like a text note type and additionally filter materials from the legends. This tool needs to be in an empty Drafting View.

  

• Legend Settings

  • View - In the drop-down menu, select the view for which you want to create a Material Legend. Materials from the selected view will be displayed in the Patterns section.
  • Header text - Set custom text as header.
  • Header text style - In the drop-down menu, select the text style for the header.
  • Label text style - In the drop-down menu, select the text style for the label.
  • Distance between rows - Set the distance between rows.
  • Include surface patterns - Check the box to add surface patterns to the Legend Patterns selection.
  • Include unplaced materials - Check the box to add unplaced patterns to the Legend Patterns selection.

• Patterns

  • Legend Patterns - Patterns that will be displayed in the Material Legend.
  • Available Patterns - Patterns that are available and will not be displayed in the Material Legend
  • Add - Click on patterns under available patterns to select them - Click on Add to transfer them to Legend Patterns
  • Remove - Click on patterns under Legend patterns to select them - Click on Remove to remove them from Legend patterns.
  • Move Up/Down / - Patterns will be displayed in the current order, to reorder them use Move Up or Move Down. Click on pattern under Legend patterns - Click on Move Up or Move Down to place them into the desired order.

Open Drafting View as active view (View Tab) > Create Panel > Drafting View > Create new view > Set name and scale > click OK > Click on Kobi Toolkit tab > Go to Annotate panel > Click on Material Legend > Set up desired options > Click OK

• Legend by Category

Creates a table with dynamic images of the instances of a chosen category within the current project. This tool needs to be run in a Legend View with at least one Legend Component in it.

• View Setup

  • Legend Category - Select which category you want to display in the legend.
  • Include unplaced objects - Includes unplaced objects in the legend.
  • View - Select from which view the object will be displayed as a symbol.
  • Row family - Select the legend style.

• Sorting and Grouping

  • Sort by - Sorts objects by selected parameter.
  • Sort Ascending - Sort by ascending.
  • Group similar (by type) - Groups similar objects and displays their count.

• Instance and Type Parameters

  • Available Parameters - Displays available parameters from selected categories.
  • Selected parameters - Parameters that will be displayed in the legend.
  • Add - Click on parameters under Available Parameters to select them. - Click on Add to transfer them to Selected Parameters.
  • Remove - Click on patterns under Selected Parameters to select them. - Click on Remove to remove them from Selected Parameters.
  • Move Up/Down / - Patterns will be displayed in the current order, to reorder them use Move Up or Move Down. - Click on the pattern under Selected patterns. - Click on Move Up or Move Down to place them into the desired order.

  

  Open Legend view (View Tab) > Create Panel > Legends drop-down > Legend > Set name and scale > Click OK Place at least one legend component > Annotate tab > Detail panel > Component drop-down > Legend Component Place the symbol in the legend view > Click on the Kobi Toolkit tab > Go to Annotate panel > Click on Legend by Category > Set up desired options > Click OK