Lesson 31 | Creating Legends and Keynotes

This lesson describes how to create legends and keynotes and add them to sheets. You begin the lesson by learning about legends and the steps to control legend visibility. Then, you learn about keynoting, steps to link keynote files and add keynotes, and some recommended practices for creating legends and adding keynotes. The lesson concludes with an exercise on creating legends and keynotes.

You use legends to easily identify the components, annotations, and symbols used in a project and accurately interpret a building design. You use keynotes to streamline the process of manually annotating the construction documents in a project.

Legend displaying different types of doors and door symbols

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