2x4 or 2X4?

[Anonymous]

Did some googling and couldn't find any clear answers. So what is correct? A 2x4 or a 2X4? A W12x26 or a W12X26? A 10'x10'x18" footing or a 10'X10'X18" footing? Can someone give me some insight please? Thanks,

~a new drafter

[adper27]

I prefer the small "x". Way back in manual drafting, I used to it to draft like that.

[pendean]

Small "x" here too, also from the old days of hand drafting/lettering etc.

[Jason.P · Accepted solution]

It comes down to preference. If you want to follow the steel handbook to the letter then you would use "x". The down side is all your shapes come into revit with the "X". So you need to ask yourself is this worth fighting or should I just go with it.

I visually like the look of the small x but that is just because I started hand drafting 20 some years ago.

One more thing to keep in mind. Keep it consistent through out your project. Do not switch between the two. 

[BDMackey]

Agreed with Jason it is frustrating they all have the X instead of x.  However most of the OOTB families use type catalogs, so if you open all of them at the same time in Notepad++ you can do a find and replace in all open files. Just be careful there aren't any X in the first line of the documents, changing them may break the type catalog.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/