Mastering Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2012

Adding Color Fill Legends

There are many times in the design process where you will need to go beyond simple documentation and portray the spaces in a building in a different way. For example, you may need to communicate design intent, spatial adjacencies and allocations, or materiality. Since Revit knows what these things are in your model, you can use its parametric capabilities to do more than just documentation and show these other types of spatial parameters.

Revit's tool for creating these types of views is called the color fill legend. You can use this tool to color areas and rooms in plans, sections, and elevations. It allows you to assign ...