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Adding legend views

Adding legend views

- [Instructor] When putting together a document set, it's often common to create a legend to describe certain common elements within a project. Maybe you do a legend for the different types of walls you have or the different types of doors that you have. So in this video, I'm going to create a simple legend representing our doors in the project, and then add that to a sheet. So to do that, we need to create a new legend view. So I'm going to go to the View tab, and there's a drop-down right here for Legends, and I'll choose that first item right there to create a legend. It'll ask for a name, and I'll this Door Types Legend. Now, you can choose any scale you want here, but I'm going to accept the default of 1:50 and click OK. Now, a legend is a special kind of drafting view. So it comes out with a blank sheet of paper initially, and if we scroll down here on the Project Browser, you now see that there's a Legends branch here with a plus sign next to it. If I expand that, there's my…

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