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Oh that is the question. So far I have been capitalizing everything I touch. Then I'm realizing not everybody does that. I bet even some of you really dislike CAPITAL LETTERS. I read that C.L. are "too loud", harder to read in the browser..... I'm really interested to find out what the overall preference is. So post how you do it. John
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I capitalize most everything in my construction documenst, but when I'm writing a message like this or an email I use it to express things like anger, loudness or excitement. I mean, how else are you supposed to express yourself when you type? I guess my drawings are pretty exciting then huh?
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What I'm really talking about is file names, family types, views, etc. Are you capitolizing all the letters such as FIRST FLOOR or typing First Floor in the browser? Are you naming your families DOUBLE HUNG WINDOW OR Double Hung Window? Are you capitalizing the parameters in a family....WIDTH or Width? John
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What I have been doing is only capitalizing text and view names that appear on sheets. Non-Capitalized text is a lot easier to read in the browser and in your Family libary. Recently I have even started to see documents that where not all Capitalized......
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In my case, I usually name my folders with capital letters and my file names not, as troeakwj says, because is easier to read. In the case of the names in the browser, I prefer to capitalize them in order to give them more importance between other words, names, etc....it also helps me to find them faster...
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" What I'm really talking about is file names, family types, views, etc. Are you capitolizing all the letters such as FIRST FLOOR or typing First Floor in the browser? Are you naming your families DOUBLE HUNG WINDOW OR Double Hung Window? Are you capitalizing the parameters in a family....WIDTH or Width? John "
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My drawings and views on sheets are all caps. If the view in the browser is a different name than how it appears on the sheet, I use upper lower case. I do this because many times view names from sheet to sheet will be the same but they have to be unique in the browser.
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all caps here....the old timers say "CAPS".....I work with men/women who have 50 plus years in the industry...hard to sway them any other way
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"all caps here....the old timers say "CAPS".....I work with men/women who have 50 plus years in the industry...hard to sway them any other way" in the drawing content itself, always all CAPS. file names, views, parameters dosen't matter. no such things things in the days of hand drafting, always CAPS.
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I was refering to the documents as well... Hand drafting was established on the principles of cursive writing....All CAPS refered to how a letter would be drawn...example of this can be found here.... http://academics.triton.edu/faculty/jhalpin/ARC109/lettering.html#
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that's what i was saying, always CAPS in documents.
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I disagree. Hand drawn drawings were typically done with caps, although drafters developed their own style over time. There is not a correct and incorrect way to draft the letters. With regard to construction drawings, I believe that using caps is a hangover from hand drafting. I prefer to use proper sentence case in my drawings and in my opinion this looks much neater. I use caps for titles and some important things that I would like to highlight. I also use bold to emphasise things thereby using the tools that are available to us now. If caps was easier to read then there would be no need for lower case letters and books would be written with caps. I found a similar thing when using AutoCAD how some pen setups were based on the colour and thickness of the drafting pens, which seemed pointless to me. As the technology evolves lets evolve with it and not try to simulate the previous technology.
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I too have dropped all CAPS in favor of traditional sentence structure. Easier to read IMO. I too think CAPS are a hangover from the past when it was easier to read all CAPS and not lower case. Its time for a change, the standards are a changin'...
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CAPS are not just a thing of the past. The reason most architects use CAPS is because if math calculations are part of the drawing set which is very often the case, those calculation use symbols similar to lower case letters.
Personally, I think Sentence case usage is sloppy and un professional.
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