Click View tab › Create panel › Legends › Legend, name it and pick a scale. Drag family types from the Project Browser into it, or use Legend Component, and add text beside each. Then drag the legend onto every sheet that needs it.
Or, just ask Mira, a free add-in, to place a legend on a run of sheets.
How to do it in Revit
Step 1: Create the legend view
Click View tab › Create panel › Legends › Legend. In New Legend View, enter a name, pick the scale and click OK; the legend opens and appears under Legends in the Project Browser (Autodesk Help: Create a Legend).
Step 2: Add components
Drag family types from the Project Browser into the legend, where they show as symbols. Or click Annotate tab › Detail panel › Component › Legend Component and place one.
Step 3: Set how each one shows
Select a component and set its view direction, host length, detail level and type in the Properties palette (Autodesk Help: Modify Legend Component Properties). Wall types can show in plan or section, and doors in plan or elevation.
Step 4: Label them
Click Annotate tab › Text panel › Text (TX) and type a description next to each symbol. Detail lines, filled regions and dimensions work in a legend too, as they do in a drafting view.
Step 5: Place it on a sheet
Open the sheet, expand Legends in the Project Browser and drag the legend onto it (Autodesk Help: Add a Legend to a Sheet). Unlike other views, one legend can sit on any number of sheets.
Step 6: Put it in the same spot on other sheets
Select the placed legend and click Modify tab › Clipboard panel › Copy to Clipboard. Then click Paste › Aligned to Selected Views on the same panel and pick the sheets from the list (Autodesk Help: Copy a Legend View).
Step 7: Hide the title
A legend rarely needs a view title. Select its viewport, click Edit Type, duplicate the viewport type under a name such as No Title, and set Show Title to No.
What to watch for
Legend symbols don't count. A component placed in a legend isn't another instance in the model, so it never shows up in a schedule's count.
Build a wall types legend. Place each wall type as a legend component shown in section, set its host length, and label it. Dimensions won't attach to walls, floors or ceilings in a legend, so write thicknesses as text. More in how to create and change wall types.
Turn off subcategories for a cleaner symbol. Hide subcategories in the legend's Visibility/Graphics. Autodesk's example turns off every door subcategory except Frame/Mullion to make a door frame legend.
Keynote legends are their own kind. View tab › Create panel › Legends › Keynote Legend lists the keynotes in use, with Key Value and Keynote Text, and can sit on many sheets. See how to add keynotes.
Give it a saved position. In Revit 2026 and later, a saved position on a legend puts every placed copy in the same spot, and editing it moves them all. See how to align views on sheets.
Legends get rebuilt on every project. Each project redraws its wall types or symbols legend, or copies one from a past job that shows types the new building doesn't use. The legend then disagrees with the model, and nothing flags it. Keeping standard legends in the template your firm standards start from means each project begins with the right ones.
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Place the Wall Types legend on every A-100 sheet, in the same spot as on A-101.
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Related Revit how-tos
- How to Add Keynotes in RevitIn Keynoting Settings (Annotate tab › Tag panel › Keynote drop-down), load your keynote file. Then pick Element, Material or User Keynote from that drop-down, choose a style in the Type Selector and click the element. A Keynote Legend on the sheet explains the numbers. Or, just ask Mira to fill in the Keynote on the wall types you've selected.
- How to Center Room Tags in RevitIn Revit 2025.3 and later, select the rooms and click Re-center Reference, then select their tags and click Move to Room Reference. The first moves each room's reference lines to its center; the second snaps the tags there. Earlier releases have neither command. Or, just tell Mira to center a whole view or level.
- How to Convert CAD Details to RevitMake a drafting view, import the DWG into it with Current View Only checked, then trace over it with detail components and your firm's line styles. Exploding the import is faster, but the CAD file's layers, text and hatches come with it, so clean those up and delete the import when you're done. Or, just ask Mira, a free add-in, to turn the CAD detail into a Revit detail.
- How to Create a Detail in RevitDraw a callout on a plan, section or elevation for a detail tied to the model, or start a drafting view for a 2D detail that isn't. Then add detail components, detail lines, filled regions and annotation from the Annotate tab. Or, just ask Mira, a free add-in, to draw a roof parapet detail in a new drafting view from your Pirros library's components.
- How to Create a Line Style in RevitClick Manage tab › Settings panel › Additional Settings › Line Styles, click New and name the style. Set its Line Weight, Line Color and Line Pattern, then click OK. Pick the style from the Line Style list when you draw detail or model lines. Or, just ask Mira, a free add-in, to find and merge duplicate line styles.
- How to Add Dimensions in RevitClick Annotate tab › Dimension panel › Aligned (DI) and set Prefer to wall faces or centerlines. Click each wall in turn, then click an empty spot to place the string. Entire Walls dimensions a wall and its openings in one click. Or, just ask Mira, a free add-in, to add overall dimensions to a plan's exterior walls.
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