Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

- [Instructor] This week I'd like to talk about a handy feature that was introduced in Revit 2020 and this is our ability to copy legends from one sheet to another. So legend views are unique in the sense that they are the only kind of view in Revit that can be placed on more than one sheet at a time. So legend views are unique in the sense that they are the only kind of view in Revit that you can place on more than one view at the same time. So being able to copy and paste them makes it very convenient for us to place the same legend on multiple sheets. So it's pretty easy process. Let me go ahead and walk you through it here. So I've got a few different legends here. I've got some demolition notes. I've got some door types, some general notes, an electrical legend. A keynote legend is also technically a legend, but that's really more of a schedule. So anyway, I'm going to close each of these down and I'll start here on the floor plan sheet. So let's say that I wanted to have the general and demolition notes here and maybe even the electrical symbols legend, right? So I will go to the general notes, and drag and drop it, and it's coming in initially with a title bar, so what you do is you place it first and then you keep it selected and then I'll come over here and I'll say I don't want a title for that because it's got its own built in title right in the legend, and then I'll do the same thing with the demo notes. Bring that in, kind of line it up with the general notes there, and change that to No Title and then like I said, maybe you want the electrical symbols possibly as well, so I'll just kind of place those and, one more time, they have their own titles, so I'll just set that to No Title. So now I've got those legends placed on this sheet and if I want to place those same legends on multiple sheets, if I had to do it with drag-and-drop, it would be kind of tedious, but now it's as simple as selecting them. So I'm going to select the first one, hold my control key down, select this one and this one, and you can see over here it says I've got three Viewports selected and then I'll just go to my Copy to Clipboard, and then immediately to the Paste dropdown, and I'll choose Paste Aligned to Selected Views. So this will give me a list of all of my other sheets and I can simply use my control key here to select multiple floor plan sheets where I would like to place these legends. So I'm going to pick the Reflected Ceiling Plan, the Roof plan, and the Power plans, and I'll click OK and then if we open up one of those other views to see the result, here's the Reflected Ceiling Plan. You can see it now has those legends. Here is the Power Plan. It also has those legends and so on. So it's a pretty simple feature, but a very welcome one because it allows you to very quickly replicate those legends and other kinds of diagrams that you might want to see on multiple sheets. So get them positioned really carefully in the first sheet first and then it's just a simple copy and paste to propagate them elsewhere.