Legend 1

[JSiteDznr]

What method are you guys using to create legends for your plans. Currently my legends consist of text, polylines and blocks (for hydrants and other items) all in paperspace,which makes things very inefficient when I need to make changes.

 

[dik]

I use a block with polylines, blocks, and text and is inserted in paperspace in my project notes. If I add items to the legend, the block is just reloaded.

Dik

 

[dbill74]

Personally I prefer to the same block, polyline, with same color and lineweight as I use on the plans themselves. With abit of text next to it for identification.
Whether it is in model space or paper space doesn't really matter, however your company wants to do that.
Where I'm at we have a place our legend, general notes, plans etc in "Model" files (everything in model space) which is then referenced into "Layout" files. (One layout per file.) I don't like this setup, but it is the "system" that was in place before I started working here.

 

[chicopee]

All the work mentioned by the above responders should be dome in model space then you have to properly scale when opening the work using viewport in paper space. Doing your text in model space, it has to be of a proper height in order to view that same text in the proper height within paper space.

 

[IFRs]

My model, North arrow and visual scale is in model space, nothing else.
In my model space everything is drawn 1:1 using inch units

My title block, drawing border, IP warning, PE seal, weld symbols, dimensions, notes, etc are all in paper space.
My title and revision blocks are individual blocks inserted into paper space.

The title block has attributes for customer, project number, drawn by, date, etc that can be changed once and inserted into other drawings to change them.

Because one CAD file may have 60 tabs (60 drawings), the title block gets it's drawing number and drawing title from the tab using a diesel expression.