Legend

Various modules

Templates: Reports, Legends, Labels

General: Roofs, Planes, Sections

Basic: Walls, Openings, Components

Special: Walls, Openings, Components

Rooms, Surfaces, Stories

You can use the Legend tool to create legends for objects and architectural components. These legends are always derived from the active drawing files or NDW file and placed in the active document. This tool takes into account the current drawing file and all drawing files open in edit mode and all elements on modifiable layers.
Legends can update automatically (depending on the setting you make).

Available legends, overview

To create legends

1. Click Legend (How).
   

   Activate Legend in one of the following ways

   • Menu bar: Create Bonus Tools Templates: Reports, Legends, Labels

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

   Templates: Reports, Legends, Labels

   General: Roofs, Planes, Sections

   Basic: Walls, Openings, Components

   Special: Walls, Openings, Components

   Rooms, Surfaces, Stories

2. The Legend Selection dialog box opens. Select the folder, subfolder and the name of the legend.
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 in the document.
   • Clear this option if you want the legend to display the current status of the document.
   • You can use Precision of calculation to switch the precision setting for drawing files from earlier versions that were drawn with standard precision (+ = real*4).
4. Associative legends can immediately be placed in the document.
   In the case of non-associative legends, do the following:
   • Select the elements you want to list.
     Click in the Input Options to find elements based on advanced criteria (e.g. material).
     You can do this as you would in the Find Elements tool.
     

     • To select a single element, click it.
     • To select elements in a region, use the left mouse button to open a selection rectangle around the elements you want to select
     • To include all the elements in the current document, click All in the Input options or press CTRL+A. Please note that this option is not available for all tools.

     For more information on the options available for selecting elements in Allplan, see Selecting elements, overview.

     When selecting elements, you can use the Filter Assistant to apply a filter based on element types and/or properties. For more information, see Filter Assistant.

   • Place the legend in the drawing file.
5. You can edit associative legends using the shortcut menu. The following options are available:
   • Use the Update Label tool to add any changes in the document or drawing file to the legend.
   • 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 explode a legend into design entities.