Keynotes & legends

[George K]

Hi, 

 

Have turned my callout into lovely keynotes (i.e numbers 1, 2, 3 etc ) making the drawing look much neater. However for the life of me cannot find or figure out how to place a lovely legend to one side referencing those notes. 

 

Thanks in advance for any lifeline! 

 

VW2020 Architect 

[Pat Stanford]

Click the Callout Tool Preferences (Wrench and Pencil at right end of modes) and check the Place as Keynote option.

 

Place a Callout and you should get both a Callout and a legend.

[Boh]

The legend maybe small and / located somewhere unexpected. It should be on the current layer and on the none class. If you can’t find Use the custom selection tool to search for keynote legends.

[Taproot]

If you click on a keynote marker, it should tell you which legend it is associated with. 

"Default Legend will typically place the legend on the same sheet / layer.  But if you have other legends in the file, it may associate with one on a different sheet / layer instead.

I usually place one marker and then option drag it to make copies.  Once you change the text of the copies, it will register as a new #, but all copies will correctly associate with the legend of choice.

 

 

[line-weight]

There's something wrong with the way this works. It often seems impossible to find the legend that's supposedly been created (even using the custom search).

 

I have to resort to copy-pasting one in from another file, and then all new ones in that file are made by duplicating the first one.

[Boh]

You might find this keynote legend worksheet useful for finding / formatting legends. I put it in this shared folder as for somereason I can't attached it to this message.

 

https://cloud.vectorworks.net/links/4PhxMqfAa27Q4PHW/