Full Legend Help

Full Legend creates door and window legends in Revit from the types in your model. For each type it places:

a legend component;
overall and rough-opening width and height dimensions;
a reference level line;
optionally, an information card with the parameters you choose.

The options are stored in Legend Setups that you can reuse in every project.

Manual version: 1.0 (Full Legend 1.0.0).

1. Requirements and installation

Revit 2024, 2025, 2026 or 2027 on 64-bit Windows.
An internet connection to activate the license or start the trial. After that it works offline: subscriptions for the whole paid period, perpetual licenses with no limit.

Install

Download FullLegend-<version>-Setup.exe from creviatools.com.
Double-click it.
- No administrator rights are needed.
- If Windows shows "Windows protected your PC", click More info → Run anyway. This happens because this first release has no digital signature.
Follow the wizard:
- Welcome: it recommends closing Revit. If Revit is open you can go on; Full Legend appears the next time you open it.
- License Agreement: read the agreement and choose "I accept" to continue.
- Revit versions: the versions installed on your computer are checked. You can change them; choose at least one. Only the files of those versions are installed.
- Install and Finish.
To update to a new version, run its installer: it replaces the previous one without uninstalling anything. Revit must be closed to update. The same installer adds or removes Revit versions: check or uncheck the ones you want.
Open Revit. This first release has no digital signature, so Revit shows "Security - Unsigned Add-In". Choose Always Load.
Look for the Crevia tab and the Full Legend panel inside it.

Crevia tab with the Full Legend panel (Create Legend button with License, Help and About)

When you install from the Autodesk App Store, the store installer is used.

Uninstall

Go to Windows Settings → Apps → Installed apps → Full Legend for Revit → Uninstall (with Revit closed). The Uninstall Full Legend window opens:

With one Revit version: confirm with Uninstall.
With several: check the versions to remove it from and confirm. The unchecked ones keep working. With all of them checked, Full Legend is uninstalled completely.

Only the program is removed: your setups and the license of the computer are kept.

2. License and free trial

Press License in the Full Legend panel. Nothing is activated on its own: the license is activated only when you press one of the activation buttons.

Activate

Button	When to use it
Activate with Autodesk	You bought on the Autodesk App Store. Revit must be signed in with the Autodesk account of the purchase.
Activate with license key	You bought on creviatools.com. Type the key `FL-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX` you received by email and press the button.
Start 3-day free trial	Once per computer. Needs a connection to start.

If you buy during the trial, there is no need to wait for it to end: activate your license in this same window and it replaces the trial at once.

License window with the buttons Activate with Autodesk and Activate with license key

If Autodesk confirms your purchase but the Crevia Tools license service does not answer at that moment, Full Legend works anyway and registers the computer automatically the next time you open Revit with a connection.

Terms of use

A license works on one active computer at a time.
Without a valid license, Full Legend is in limited mode: you can open the window, prepare setups and see the Preview, but Create Legend asks for an active license.
Subscription (monthly or annual): the License window shows until when it is paid, counted from the day of the purchase. It works offline for that whole period. When connected, Full Legend checks the subscription by itself in the background, when Revit opens and when you create legends. On the expiry date it needs a connection to check the renewal: if you renewed, it keeps working with the new date; offline it switches to limited mode until it connects. If the subscription is canceled or refunded, it stops working at the next check.
Autodesk App Store purchases, when the expiry date is not available: works offline for up to 21 days in a row (14 plus 7 of grace).
Manage subscription (in the License window, purchases on creviatools.com): opens the customer portal to cancel, change the payment method or download invoices.
One-time payment (perpetual): always works, offline too, with the versions released while your updates are included (1 year from the purchase, renewable).

Change of computer: subscriptions

You can change computers yourself, up to 3 changes per year (a rolling year). You need an internet connection.

On the old computer: press Release this computer. Then activate the license on the new one.
If you no longer have the old computer: on the new one, activate with your key or with Autodesk. Full Legend says that the license is active on another computer and shows Move to this computer.
- License key: you receive a 6-digit code at the purchase email. Type it and press Confirm code. The code is valid for 15 minutes and allows 5 attempts.
- Autodesk: the verified Autodesk account is enough; there is no code.
The old computer is deactivated the next time it connects.
If you have used the 3 changes of the year, write to support@creviatools.com.

Change of computer: perpetual license

The perpetual license is not moved by self-service:

Press Request release. Full Legend shows your license reference and opens an email to support@creviatools.com.
When support authorizes the release, press Release this computer on the computer where it is active (needs a connection).
Activate the license on the new computer with your key or with Autodesk.

If you no longer have the old computer, say so in the email: support can release it for you.

End of updates (perpetual)

When a version released after the end of your updates comes out, Full Legend tells you: you can keep using your version with no time limit. To get the new one, renew one year of updates:

Bought on creviatools.com: Renew updates. Type your license key in the field of the checkout.
Bought on the Autodesk App Store: the notice opens the store listing.

Contact: support@creviatools.com.

3. Main window

Click Create Legend. The window shows the selected setup, the items that will go into the legend and the legend view.

Main window with the item list and the Preview closed

3.1 Setup

Select Legend Setup: the setup to use.
… opens Modify Legend Setup (section 4).
Default setup always exists. It cannot be deleted or renamed. Its name follows the Revit language.
The first time Full Legend is used in a file, that setup comes with: back elevation with the floor plan above (0.5 m gap), rough width, width, rough height and height dimensions (above and left), one row of 5 items with no spacing, and the card prepared (Split Minimal title with Type Mark, Type Name and Count; circle marker; lined table) but off (Info display style = None). Each file keeps its own changes.

3.2 Items to Include

Option	Values	Effect
Category	Doors, Windows, Doors + Windows	Which categories go into the legend.
Types source	Placed types only / All family types	Only types with instances in the model, or every loaded type.
Search scope	Entire model / Active view / Selection / Schedule	Active view uses only the elements visible in the view that was active when Full Legend started (plan, section, elevation or 3D). Selection (N) uses only the selected doors and windows of the chosen category (with Doors only doors can be selected; with Windows, only windows): the ones selected before opening Full Legend or the ones you pick with Select in model… (the window closes, you select in the view and click Finish; Esc keeps the previous selection; the window comes back as it was). Schedule: name appears with Doors or with Windows (not with Doors + Windows) for every schedule of that category (two schedules that show exactly the same list appear once): it uses the elements of the schedule and copies its sort levels (up to four, also by any parameter), all its filters, also those on numbers, lengths and levels (each in its own group, because the schedule applies them all at once) and Itemize every instance to the window, where you can still change them.
Sort by / Then by	Mark, Type Mark, Level, Type Name, Family Name, Comments, Type Comments, Quantity, From Room, To Room, Description, Assembly Code, Manual, and any parameter copied from a schedule	Up to four sort levels. Manual keeps the order you set with Move Up / Move Down.
Itemize every instance	yes / no	One row per instance instead of one per type.

Grouping by an instance value. When you sort by a value that changes between instances (for example Level or Mark), repeated types are split by that value. That value must be in the Card. If it is not, Full Legend warns you before creating the legend.

3.3 Filters

Turn on Filter types to narrow the list:

Each condition has a parameter, an operator (equals, not equals, greater than, greater than or equal to, less than, less than or equal to, contains, not contains, begins with, does not begin with, ends with, does not end with, not empty, empty; numbers and lengths compare as numbers) and a value.
Conditions in the same group are combined with OR.
Groups are combined with AND: each new group refines the result.
The parameter can be a type or an instance parameter. Full Legend identifies it by its internal Revit identity, so the filter works in any Revit language.

3.4 Item list

Remove from legend takes an item out of this legend without changing the model.
Restore removed brings it back.
Move Up / Move Down changes the order and switches the sort to Manual.
The first item is the reference item: the one shown in the Preview.

3.5 Legend view

Use existing legend view: places the items in a legend that already exists. Otherwise a new one is created with the name shown (by default "Legend - Doors", "Legend - Windows" or "Legend - Doors and Windows").
Scale (1:20 to 1:100; imperial 3/4" = 1'-0" to 1/8" = 1'-0") and Detail Level of the legend. A setup saved at 1:5 or 1:10 opens at 1:20. The scale also sets the model size of everything measured on paper: card offsets, texts and reference lines.

4. Modify Legend Setup

The window has the setup list on the left (New, Duplicate, Rename, Delete, Export, Import), two tabs and the built-in Preview. OK saves; Cancel discards.

Export saves every setup of the list to a .json file, to use them in another project or on another computer.
Import adds the setups of an exported file. It never replaces an existing one: when the name exists, the imported setup gets a number ("Hotel doors 2"). Press OK to keep them.

Modify Legend Setup, Placement & Layout tab, Preview in the Layout stage

4.1 Placement & Layout tab

Group	Option	Description
Representation	View direction	Front Elevation, Back Elevation or Floor Plan.
	Floor plan position (optional)	None, Floor Plan above or Floor Plan below the elevation. Elevations only.
	Plan / elevation gap (m)	Distance between the plan and the elevation of the same item.
Start point	Start X / Start Y (m)	Coordinates of the first item in the legend.
Layout Spacing	Horizontal spacing (m)	Distance between items.
	Layout	Horizontal / one row, Vertical / one column, Grid - max per row, Grid - max per column.
	Items per row/column	Maximum per row or column in the grid modes.
	Vertical row spacing (m)	Distance between rows (0 = rows touching).

4.2 Dimensions & Info tab

Dimensions

Create dimensions, and which ones: Rough Width, Width, Rough Height and Height.
Anchor to geometry: dimensions are attached to the faces of the component when Revit allows it. Otherwise helper lines are used.
Position: horizontal Above or Below, vertical Left or Right.
The rough opening is read from the rough-opening parameters of the family. When a family has none, that dimension is not created and the summary says so.

Info display style

None: components, dimensions and reference lines only.
Marker: only a marker (FL - Marker Base) on each item, placed as the card (same origin: the centre of the image area). The layout stays as with None and the FL - WL line stays continuous; the marker does not push items apart (its image area is as wide as the Rough Width of the type, or its Width); with several rows, a row only moves down when a marker of the row above would reach it. In Info display options you choose the marker shape and its value (Mark or Type Mark); the Marker check stays on and cannot be cleared, and the other card options are disabled.
Card: adds one FL - Card Base card per item. Its options (group Info display options) are:

Option	Description
Card layout	Vertical, or Table right.
Frame	Draws the card frame.
Title top / Title bottom	Title bar at the top or at the bottom: checking one unchecks the other. Title bottom is not available with Table right.
Title style	FL - Title Box families. The list shows the name without " : Default".
Title rows 1–3	Value of each row. In the styles that show the label of a row (row 3 in Architectural, Badge Left, Corner Tag, Split Badge and Split Minimal; row 1 in Simple), that parameter appears in Selected parameters with the location Title N: type its prefix there.
Marker and marker value	Shape (Circle, Oval, Triangle, Diamond, Rectangle, Hexagon) and the parameter it shows. The marker size follows the text size of the scale: 0.50 m at 1:20, 0.60 m at 1:25, 1.00 m at 1:50, 1.30 m at 1:75 and 1.50 m at 1:100 (width and height); the oval and the rectangle are half as high. Table rows are at least 0.20 / 0.25 / 0.40 / 0.45 / 0.60 m at those scales.
Table and table style	Lined, OpenLined or Clean.
Table right (mm)	Width, gap and top gap of the right-hand table, in paper millimeters.

Card parameters

Move parameters from Available Parameters to Selected Parameters / Final Order with Add > and < Remove.
Each parameter has a Label mode: Original, Custom or No label. Text typed in the Prefix column is shown on that row of the Card.
The title rows in use are always listed first (Title 1–3) and cannot be moved or removed here. Their prefix can be edited only when the title style shows that label; otherwise it is locked (grey) but kept, and used again with a style that shows it. Move Up / Move Down order the table rows.
The Text format of the setup is Show original prefix, Show custom prefix or Show value only.
You can choose type or instance parameters. A parameter without a value leaves its row empty.

Card height in a row: cards of the same row take the same height, so titles and tables line up. In a row of 3 or more cards, a card taller than 1.5 times the median height of the row keeps its own height: it shares the bottom edge with the others and grows upwards (its title sits higher). The others are equalized among themselves.

5. Preview

The Preview is in Modify Legend Setup and draws the result in a demonstration model of the plugin (Door D-01 and Window W-01). Your project is not modified.

Preview in Modify Legend Setup, Card stage

Stages:
- Item: the component with its dimensions;
- Card: the item with its card;
- Layout: the item repeated with the start point, layout and spacing.
The Preview uses the scale and detail level selected at that moment in the main window. You can try 1:25, 1:50 or 1:100 before creating the legend.
The demonstration dimensions show Width, Height, Rough Width and Rough Height instead of numbers. The short segment between Height and Rough Height shows "-".
In Modify Legend Setup, Auto update regenerates the Preview when an option changes. When it is off, click Update preview.

6. Create the legend

Click Create Legend in the main window. Full Legend:

creates or reuses the legend view;
copies the base legend component and the FL - WL and FL - DIM resources when they are missing;
places one component per item, with its dimensions and reference lines;
adds the cards;
selects what it created and opens the legend.

The whole legend is one undo step: one Ctrl+Z removes the legend view, the components, the dimensions, the reference lines and the Cards at once. If a step fails, only that step is undone and the summary says so.

Finished legend with cards, placed on a sheet

When it finishes, a short message says:

Legend created, with the view and the number of items; or
Legend created with notices, with the number of notices and the items worth reviewing; or
The legend could not be created, with the reason.

See details, in the same message, shows the full summary (copies, dimensions, cards and every notice).

7. FL - WL and FL - DIM resources

Full Legend uses its own resources with fixed names, the same in every Revit language:

FL - WL: line style of the reference level lines (NPT).
FL - DIM 1-<scale>: dimension types, one per scale (for example FL - DIM 1-50). Each has a text size suited to that scale.

Rules:

When your project does not have them, Full Legend copies them the first time.
When they exist, they are used as they are. You can change their line weight, color or text size in your template and Full Legend keeps your changes.
When there is no type for the exact scale, the type of the nearest scale is used.

8. Frequently asked questions

Does Full Legend change my model? It only creates the legend view and its content, and loads FL - Card Base, FL - WL and FL - DIM when they are missing. Doors, windows and their parameters are not changed.

Does it work with Revit in another language? Yes. Parameters are identified by their internal Revit identity, not by their visible name. The interface is in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese; other languages show English.

Can I use my setups on another computer? Yes. In Modify Legend Setup press Export to save them to a .json file and, on the other computer, Import (section 4).

Windows shows "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway. It appears because this first release has no digital signature.

Revit asks about an unsigned add-in. Choose Always Load. Revit does not ask again.

Can I install it for some Revit versions only? Yes. On the Revit versions page of the installer, keep only the ones you want checked. To change them later, run the installer again.

Can I remove it from a single Revit version? Yes. When you uninstall, the window lets you choose the versions (section 1).

What is kept when I uninstall? Your setups and the license of the computer. If you install Full Legend again, they are still there.

How do I start the free trial? Press License → Start 3-day free trial. It needs a connection, asks for no card and can be used once per computer.

Where is the privacy policy? In About → Privacy policy, or at creviatools.com/privacy/.

How do I activate my purchase? Press License → Activate with license key and enter the key you received by email (section 2).

What if I change computers? Subscription: press Release this computer on the old one or Move to this computer on the new one (3 changes per year). Perpetual: press Request release (section 2).

Why is a rough-opening dimension missing? The family has no rough-opening parameters (Rough Width / Rough Height) on the type or the instance. The summary lists each type.

9. Troubleshooting

Problem	What to do
Revit does not show the Crevia tab	Run the installer `FullLegend-<version>-Setup.exe` again and reopen Revit.
Revit asks about an unsigned add-in	This is normal in this version: choose Always Load.
"Limited mode"	Open License and press Activate with Autodesk, Activate with license key or start the trial.
"No connection with the license service"	Check the connection. A corporate proxy or firewall must allow `license.creviatools.com`.
"This license is active on another computer"	Subscription: press Move to this computer. Perpetual: press Request release.
The Preview does not appear	Close and reopen the window. If it persists, export the diagnostics (below).
A dimension or a Card was not created	Read the final summary: it gives the type and the reason.

Support: Export diagnostics

If something does not work as expected:

Open License (or About) and press Export diagnostics.
Full Legend saves a file FullLegend-Diagnostics-<date> on your Desktop and opens the folder to show it.
Send that file to support@creviatools.com and tell us what you were doing.

The file contains the versions of Full Legend and Revit, the license status and the technical records of the last operations. It does not include your license key, your email, your projects or your Windows user name.