It’s Friday night in Singapore and I’m sitting in my room soaking up the air conditioning before I head out on the town. I don’t get to travel for work often but this is one of those rare moments I get to enjoy new sights, a different culture and also meet some really passionate BIM/Revit people from elsewhere in the world.

Something that has been in the back of my mind this week is this video that I recorded back in May/June. After 2 years, I decided I should sit down and explain how I generated my dynamic Revit legend. The idea was that it would be a 2 part video. The first part, which I’m posting tonight, is for versions of Revit up to and including 2014. The second part of the video was for 2015 and beyond. Unfortunately between surgery and travel, I haven’t had time to record the second video.

I would say that everyone that sees this video will know what to do to achieve automated dynamic schedule glory in Revit 2015, but I will still record the video anyway for those that want a step by step guide. There is also nothing to say however that this method can not be used for 2015, because this will still work in 2015 and beyond without issue.

I do apologise for such a delay in getting this out there, it’s something that I put off repeatedly. It’s one of those whacky work arounds that some people will love, but others will hate; one of the reasons I had put off recording the how-to was because I couldn’t implement this at work, but hopefully it will still help someone somewhere.

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A downside worth mentioning is that if you use this method and you send your RVT file to someone outside of your company, they will not see the legend symbols. DWF, PDF and other formats however should be fine.

The how-to for 2015 will come after I return home from Singapore. Until then, happy whacky legends.