Revit 2011 Creates Legends and Schedules

Legends
There are two types of legends: legends and keynote legends. Regular legends are used to assemble
analytic views of content in your project, graphics, geometry, tags, and so on—anything that lives in
your project. Legends may contain Detail, Repeating Detail, and Legend components.

A Legend component

is a special bidirectionally associative representation of 3D system and component families that may only appear in legend views (not drafting views). If the actual thing in your project changes, the representation of that thing in your legend will change as well.

Keynote legends are special schedules. When creating a keynote legend, you’ll be prompted
much the same way as you are when creating a schedule.

Schedules
There are five types of schedules in Revit: Schedule/Quantities, Material Takeoff, Sheet List, Note Block, and View List.

Schedules/Quantities in Revit are used to quantify the actual building elements that are being used in the project, not the elements that are loaded in the project.

Three categories of elements may be scheduled via Schedules/Quantities:

• Masses: Mass and Mass Floors
• Spaces: Rooms and Areas
• Content: System and component families

There is also a special schedule called a Multi-Category schedule. It is used to create and master schedule component families (and may only contain component families) across many categories. We think that being able to create a Multi-Category schedule that could contain everything in one place would be great, as it would allow you to see your entire project in one schedule. We hope this is being planned for the future.

Documentation
Sheets in Revit ultimately contain all the documentation for your project and will come in a variety of standard as well as custom sizes. The important thing to remember is that you’re not going to select a “scale” when you print a sheet; it’s really more like printing than “plotting.” If you need your sheet to be smaller or fit on the desired page, these options are available and little different than printing from a word processing application.