Landscaping Legends, Drawing Symbol Legend

Task area Plant Objects, Path Areas + Urban Planning

You can use this tool to create a legend for plants, pavement or drawing symbols placed in the active documents.
Legends can update automatically (depending on the setting you make).

To create a legend

1. Click Landscaping Legend (How) or Drawing Symbol Legend (How).
   

   Activate Drawing Symbol Legend in one of the following ways

   • Actionbar:Role Surroundings Task Urban Planning Task area Urban Planning

   • Menu bar: Create Terrain Urban Planning

   • Palette: Tools Create area in the following module(s):

   Urban Planning

   

   Activate Landscaping Legends in one of the following ways

   • Actionbar:Role Surroundings Task Landscaping Task area Plant Objects, Path Areas

   • Menu bar: Create Terrain Landscaping

   • Palette: Tools Create area in the following module(s):

   Landscaping

2. Select the folder, subfolder and name of the legend.
   Subfolder: 51 Landscaping
   Subfolder: 60 Drawing symbol regulations
3. Define the type of the legend:
   • Select Associative legend of active document if the legend is to update immediately to reflect any changes you make to the document.
   • Clear this option if you want the legend to display the current status of the document.
4. You can place associative legends in the document at once.
   Do the following to create a non-associative legend:
   • Select the elements you want to include.
     Click in the Input Options to find elements based on advanced criteria (e.g. material).
     This tool works just like the Find Elements tool.
     

     • To select a single element, click it.
     • To select elements in a selection rectangle, hold down the left mouse button and open a selection rectangle around the elements you want to select.
     • Some tools allow you to select all elements in the current document by clicking All in the input options or pressing CTRL+A.

     To get detailed information on all selection options provided by Allplan, see Selecting elements, overview.

     When selecting elements, you can use filters, which allow you to filter by element type or property. For more information, see Using filters.

   • Place the legend in the drawing file.
5. You can edit associative legends using the shortcut menu. You have the following options:
   • You can use the Update Label tool to add any changes in the document or drawing file to the legend (for example, changes in the layer status).
   • You can change the page break within a legend by clicking in the workspace or entering a value in the dialog line.
   • You can resize a legend by clicking in the workspace or entering a factor in the dialog line.
   • You can resolve a legend into design entities. All elements get the same group number so that you can quickly and easily select and edit the exploded legend.

Note: The Landscaping Legend uses the group names of the selected plant catalog (e.g. Bruns). You can modify the Bruns group names freely in Allplan. This way, you can control how the legend groups the plants.