Your legends. Always in sync.

A boundary defines the area that QuickLister scans. Everything inside the boundary is analyzed, everything outside is ignored. Boundaries are stored as closed polylines on a dedicated layer (CB-QUICKLISTER-BOUNDS) — frozen, locked and non-plotting by default.

1. Click + New in the dashboard.
2. Draw boundary — click two corner points to draw a rectangle. QuickLister asks for a name first.
3. Select closed polyline — select an existing closed polyline. It will be moved to the boundary layer.
4. Viewport as boundary — select a viewport in paper space. QuickLister calculates the model space extents (including clipped viewports and rotation angles) and creates a corresponding boundary.
5. The boundary appears in the dropdown. Select it to start a scan.

Sometimes one boundary isn't enough. A building with multiple wings, a site with separate zones — you want one legend that covers everything. Boundary groups combine multiple boundaries into one scan.

1. Click + New and choose Make group.
2. Enter a group name and select which boundaries to include.
3. The group appears in the boundary dropdown. When selected, all members are scanned and the results merged.
4. Duplicate items are merged — if the same hatch pattern appears in two zones, the areas are summed.

Select a boundary and QuickLister scans model space. Everything found is organized into sections: Hatches, Blocks, Linetypes and References (if pick criteria have been set).

1. Each section shows a collapsible list with a total and an aggregated value.
2. Each item has a checkbox — only checked items are included in the legend.
3. Use Layers to filter by layer per section.
4. Use All / None to quickly check or uncheck everything in a section.
5. Toggle Show values per section to include or exclude the measurement column in the legend.

References are numbered annotations in your drawing — material numbers, detail numbers, specification references. Unlike hatches and blocks, you need to tell QuickLister which object to look for.

1. Click Add References in the dashboard.
2. Click a reference object: a Text, MText, MLeader, or block with attributes.
3. QuickLister reads the properties — layer, color, text style, height, scale — and uses them as search criteria.
4. Enter a group name (e.g. "Façade materials").
5. QuickLister scans the boundary for all matching objects and displays them sorted by number.
6. Add a description next to each number — it appears in the legend beside the reference.

You can create multiple reference groups — one for materials, another for detail numbers. Each group becomes its own section.

Technical names like "ANSI31 ×2 45°" are useful for identification, but not for a legend that a client reads. With QuickLister you can give each item its own display name.

1. Next to each item is a text field. Type a display name — it appears in the legend table.
2. Leave it empty and QuickLister uses a default name: the layer name for hatches and linetypes, or the block name for blocks.
3. For references, type a description next to each number (e.g. "1" → "Brick, red").
4. Click Save to store the names on the boundary, or simply switch to another boundary — QuickLister saves your changes automatically.

Once you've reviewed the scan results and checked the desired items, generating the legend is a single action. Combine everything in one table, or generate separate legends — check only hatches for one, only blocks for another. You can create multiple legends from the same boundary, each with a different selection.

1. Click Create Table.
2. First time in this drawing? QuickLister opens Drawing Settings — choose your units and text style.
3. Enter a table name (becomes the title row).
4. Click an insertion point in model space. The table appears with columns for preview, description and value. For viewport boundaries, the table is placed in paper space.
5. Working with a rotated UCS? The table is automatically rotated to match.

The preview column shows a color-matched visual sample for each item: a colored swatch for hatches, a block thumbnail for blocks, and a line segment with the correct linetype.

Want to change what's in an existing legend? Add or remove items, or adjust sections?

1. Click Modify Table and select the table in your drawing.
2. QuickLister finds the linked boundary, rescans and restores the dashboard exactly as it was — including checked items and display names.
3. Make your changes: check or uncheck items, add or remove reference groups.
4. Use Jump to while editing to zoom to the boundary and check what's inside — this is the only boundary action available in edit mode.
5. Click Update Table to apply your changes. The table is rewritten at the same position with the new content. Or click Cancel to return to the boundary without changing the table.

This is the feature that changes how you work with legends. Instead of deleting tables and recreating them every time the drawing changes, you press one button. Every legend in the drawing is rescanned, updated and rewritten — model space and paper space.

1. Click Update All Tables.
2. Every legend in the drawing is rescanned and updated based on the current state of the drawing — including viewport legends in paper space, which are rescanned through their linked viewport.
3. A summary shows how many legends were updated and reports any issues.

New items on a layer that's already in the legend are automatically included. Items on an entirely new layer are not automatically added — use Modify Table to review and add them.

Viewport legends let you generate a legend in paper space that exactly matches what a viewport shows — including frozen layers, color overrides and linetype overrides. Ideal for layout sheets where each viewport shows a different aspect of the design.

1. Switch to a paper space layout where your viewports are.
2. Click + New and choose Viewport as boundary.
3. Click a viewport. QuickLister builds a "lens" — reads the viewport scale, view center, rotation angle, frozen layers and all layer overrides (color, linetype, lineweight).
4. The viewport boundary appears in the dropdown with a 🖥 icon and the layout name.
5. QuickLister scans model space through the viewport lens: only visible layers are included, and colors/linetypes reflect the viewport overrides — not the global layer settings.
6. Review the scan results, check the desired items and click Create Table.
7. The table is placed in paper space, next to the viewport. Linetype previews in the table are automatically scaled to the viewport scale.

References work too — click Add References and QuickLister switches to the viewport (model space) to pick, then automatically returns to paper space.

Drawing Settings are stored per drawing and determine how QuickLister formats values and generates tables.

1. Open via ☰ → Drawing Settings.
2. Drawing units — mm, cm, m, inches or feet. Determines how areas and lengths are converted.
3. Text style — which AutoCAD text style is used for the table.
4. Decimal places — set precision separately for areas and lengths.