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    Apologies in advance if this has been answered already. I've been googling like mad to no avail Hopefully someone here can help.

    I have a created several hundred sheets (all using the same titleblock if that makes any difference) and now I have a legend I'd like to place on all of these sheets, in exactly the same spot.
    Given that legends are "views" that are meant to be placed on mulitple sheets I, in my bottomless naivete, assumed it would be fairly easy to place said legends on sheets.
    But no.
    Any tips for placing and lining up these legends would be greatly appreciated.

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    Default Re: Place legend on multiple sheets

    Yeah this subject has been done to death. When it comes to lining stuff up in Revit, I go by eye usually, but i know for most this isn't acceptable. So work around I've seen used is to place a grid in your titlebock that you can turn on and off. Place a few detail lines on your legend, and then line it all up.

    Perhaps someone else has a better idea, but as far as i know, there is no functionality in Revit for view alignment/snapping on sheets.

    hope it helps.

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    Default Re: Place legend on multiple sheets

    Have a look at the Guide Grid feature. This lets you turn on a defined grid within a sheet. Add a pair of reference planes to your Legend View. When you use the Move tool on the Legend View on the sheet Revit will recognize the reference planes in the Legend View and let you align the view to the Guide Grid on the sheet. If you're interested you can watch THE VIDEO HERE. What it shows is focused on a floor plan view but the same concept will work for Legends too.

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    Default Re: Place legend on multiple sheets

    I stand corrected! perfect. Good to know. That's actually pretty easy... I might use that myself now.

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    Default Re: Place legend on multiple sheets

    Thanks Steve, since posting I discovered the work plane trick and found I could move the legend after placing it. I just line the planes up with the corner of my sheet. That works fine but it still requires placing the legends one at a time... Slow in other words...
    I have learned a couple other things. Two of the plugins we use (magicad and NTI tools) both have sheet wizards that will place legends, if you do it when creating the sheets. Not afterwards...

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    Default Re: Place legend on multiple sheets

    or you could just put the notes in the title block with a vis parameter to turn it on/off....? if its the same on every page why create more work for yourself.

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    Ok, I can use Guide Grid for aligning legends in sheets. But anyway to insert same legend into multiple sheets at once?

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    Default Re: Place legend on multiple sheets

    You can use SmartSheets addin to do it, it's not that cheap though.
    But if you want to add the legend to all sheets, just add it to the title block.
    Or if there are different legends for different drawing types, create annotation families with the legends, load them into the title block, and add "family type parameter" to control visibility.

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    Default Re: Place legend on multiple sheets

    hi,
    I discovered this BRILLIANT add-in since the last post. Works great.
    http://lmnts.lmnarchitects.com/bim/c...ules-in-revit/

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    Default Re: Place legend on multiple sheets

    Quote Originally Posted by Christopher_L View Post
    hi,
    I discovered this BRILLIANT add-in since the last post. Works great.
    http://lmnts.lmnarchitects.com/bim/c...ules-in-revit/
    thanks a lot!

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