From the course: AutoCAD Facilities Management: Space Management
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Creating a space legend on your drawing - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Facilities Management: Space Management
Creating a space legend on your drawing
- [Voiceover] So last but not least in this defining space areas chapter, we're going to look at creating a simple space legend to put on the drawing itself. Now, I'm just going to put this into the model space. You might consider putting this into an AutoCAD table, and we'll look at space tables later on in the course, but what I want to do is just highlight this gradient-filled room that we've put in here. Now, this is going to be a meeting room, so what I need to do is go to the Layer Properties first. So I come into Layer Properties off of the Home tab on the Ribbon, and I'm going to create a new layer. So I click on New Layer, and as usual, we'll start it with FM dash, and this is going to be space legend, okay? And we're going to use it to draw all of the elements of the space legend and the text for the space legend. What you might want to do there is possibly just put that as a color that is white, like that, or something simple that stands out. So I'll click on OK. I'll also…
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