Poll - Do you use all caps on your drawing or upper case/lower case

[jmlip]

Hello,  do you use all caps or do you use upper case/lower case in your drawing title block, bom, and notes?

[jtylerbc]

All caps here.  Same was true at my previous company, so you can count me as two votes for caps.

[Anonymous]

We use all the lowercase except the company name.

[Anonymous]

All Caps in all the companies I have worked for over the last 16 years I've been in Australia.

[harco]

All caps is the norm in our company, I expect it's because that's how hand drawings were done as it makes it a lot clearer.

Nowadays we're all on CAD and everything is laser printed giving consistent and identical font size and quality so maybe there is not the need for caps.

YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE IF SOME ONE TYPES IN CAPS IT ISN'T AS EASY TO READ.

I notice this problem most on a large build instruction document.

[JDMather]

Years ago I took a graphics design class were the emphasized and demonstrated that ALL CAPS was harder to read than Uppercase and Lower case.
But even though we left the drawing boards in the last century it will probably take the standards a couple of decades to catch up to the technology.

[Anonymous]

Regular case just like I'm using here.  The difficult to read all caps standards should go the way of the drafting board.

So far not one user of the drawings has even mentioned that I'm defying the standards.

[IgorMir]

All caps for the text in Title Block and general annotations if they are not too long. If they are - then the normal text applies. For the Parts list - each and every word starts with capital letter but the body of the words are in low case.

Regards,

Igor.

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@jmlip wrote:

Hello,  do you use all caps or do you use upper case/lower case in your drawing title block, bom, and notes?

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[cbenner]

We use a combination, Upper and lower in out titleblocks, while drawing notes and dimensions are all still in CAPS.  Everywhere else I've worked over the last 20 years has been all CAPS.

[SBix26]

All caps is our standard, with exceptions for required lower case letters-- for example pH, McMASTER, mm, etc.  I would prefer going to mixed case for readability, though that leaves more latitude for individual differences in part descriptions.  Filenames, however, are allowed to be mixed case.

[kstate92]

All caps for one unassailable (IMHO) reason: to avoid the inevitable, pointless, time-wasting debates about what should and should not be capitalized (Zerk? no, zerk!!, etc.).  It's like asking five economists their opinion: you're going to get seven or eight theories in return.

[markc-uk]

PURE CAPITAL LETTERS HERE