# Legend

Tools for creating legends.

• Material Legend!

  Creates a material legend based on the materials from a specified floor plan. Specify different settings, like a text note type and additionally filters materials from the legends. This tool needs to be in an empty DRAFTING VIEW.

  

  Open Drafting View as active view ( View Tab > Create Panel > Drafting View > create new view > Set name and scale > click OK) > Click on Kobi Toolkit tab > go to Annotate panel > Click on Material Legend > set up desired options > click OK

  • View - in drop down menu select view for which you want to create material legend - materials from the selected view will be displayed in the Patterns section

  • Header text - set custom text as header

  • Header text style - in drop down menu select text style for the header

  • Label text style - in drop down menu select text style for the label

  • Distance between rows - set the distance between rows

  • Include surface patterns - check the box to add surface patterns to the Legend Patterns selection

  • Include unplaced materials - check the box to add unplaced patterns to the Legend Patterns selection

  • Patterns

    • Legend Patterns

      Patterns which will be displayed in material legend

    • Available Patterns

      Patterns which are available and will not be displayed in material legend

      • Add

        Click on patterns under available patterns to select them - click on Add to transfer them to Legend Patterns

      • Remove

        Click on patterns under Legend patterns to select them - click on Remove to remove them from Legend patterns.

      • Move Up/Down /

        Patterns will be displayed in the current order, to reorder them use Move Up or Move Down

        Click on pattern under Legend patterns - click on Move Up or Move Down to place them into desired order

    

• Legend by Category

  Creates a table with dynamic images of the instances of a chosen category within the current project. This tool needs to be run in a LEGEND VIEW with at least one LEGEND COMPONENT in it.

  

  Open Legend view (View Tab > Create Panel > Legends drop-down > Legend > Set name and scale > click OK) with at least one legend component ( Annotate tab > Detail panel > Component drop-down > Legend Component > Place the symbol in the legend view) > Click on Kobi Toolkit tab > go to Annotate panel > Click on Legend by Category > set up desired options > click OK

  • View Setup

    Legend Category - select which category you want to display in the legend

    Include unplaced objects - includes unplaced objects in the legend

    View - select from which view the object will be displayed as symbol

    Row Family - select the legend style

  • Sorting and Grouping

    Sort by - sorts objects by selected parameter

    Sort Ascending - sort by ascending

    Group similar (by type) - groups similar objects and displays their count

  • Instance and Type Parameters

    Available Parameters - displays available parameters from selected category

    Selected Parameters - parameters which will be displayed in the legend

  • Add - Click on parameters under Available Parameters to select them - click on Add to transfer them to Selected Parameters

  • Remove - Click on patterns under Selected Parameters to select them - click on Remove to remove them from Slected Parameters

  • Move Up/Down / - Patterns will be displayed in the current order, to reorder them use Move Up or Move Down

    click on pattern under Selected patterns - click on Move Up or Move Down to place them into desired order