From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Using a schedule as a legend

Using a schedule as a legend

- [Instructor] Some time ago here in the series I showed a technique where you could use a room legend to kind of cheat a little bit and display graphically the filters that you had applied to other elements. So, this is the file that we had at the completion of that tip and that was covered back in June, 2020, if you want to go back and take a look. But I've got each piece of furniture designated as either new, owner supplied or relocated. I'm doing that with filters. So, if we go to Visibility Graphics, I'll just type VG and click the filters tab. You can see that I've got a filter set up for each of those designations and then the corresponding colors are being assigned on the surface patterns. Now, if you're not sure how to set up filters or you're not familiar with filters, I've covered this several other times here in the series. So I welcome you to just search for filters in the tip series and you should see plenty of good examples. So let me just click okay out of there. Now…

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