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. The Legend Selection dialog box opens. Select the folder, subfolder, and name of the legend.
   File: 51 Landscaping
   File: 60 Drawing symbol regulations
3. Define the type of the legend:
   • So that the legend immediately adapts to the changes in the document, select the Associative legend of active document option and - before you place the legend - the Update automatically option in the Properties palette. The legend is still associative when you do not select the Update automatically option, but it does not adapt to changes.
   • If the legend is to represent the current status of the document, clear the Associative legend of active document option.
4. You can immediately place associative legends in the document. In doing so, you can define additional settings in the Properties palette.
   Do the following to create a non-associative legend:
   • Select the elements that you want to include.
     Click in the input options to find elements based on advanced criteria (for example, material).
     This 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 by using the shortcut menu. You have the following options:
   • You can use the Update Label tool to add changes in the document or drawing files to the legend (for example, when the layer status has changed). This is only possible when the Update automatically option is selected.
   • You can change the page break within the legend by clicking on the workspace or by entering a value in the length unit selected in the dialog line. This is only possible when the Update automatically option is selected.
   • You can resize a legend by clicking in the workspace or entering a factor in the dialog line.
   • You can explode 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.
6. You can change the additional settings of associative legends later by clicking within the legend and selecting the Properties palette.

Note: The Landscaping Legend uses the group names of the selected plant catalog (for example, Bruns). In ALLPLAN you can modify the group names in Bruns master articles freely. Thus, you can control how the legend groups the plants.