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Using Legends
12 Click File menu ➤ Close.
You have created a library of common drafting details that can be shared by each member of
the structural team. You have also imported both individual detail views as well as the entire
detail sheet into an existing project.
13 Proceed to the next lesson, Using Legends on page 258.
Legends provide a way to display a list of the various structural components and annotations used in a
project. The two most common types of legends produced for construction documents are annotation
legends and building component legends.
Annotation legends are made up of components such as section markers which are paired with text that
identifies them. On construction documents, annotation legends are often referred to as symbol legends.
Legends list and identify components such as weld symbols and rebar tags. On construction documents,
component legends are often called schedules (beam schedule, concrete schedule, and so on).
Creating a Symbol Legend
In this exercise, you create a legend view and add symbols and text to it, using a text type you create by
duplicating an existing text type and modifying the type properties. Finally, you add the completed symbol
legend to a sheet for the construction documents.
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