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Haha - I went to college for computer animation, before getting pulled out for deployments, and ultimately finding the world of civil engineering. I've always held out for Civil 3D to be more than what it seems content to be, so Revit has always been on the back burner, to my mind. For all of its own issues, it's certainly more of a true 3D modeling engine than that of Civil 3D.
Did your company make the switch from AMEP to RMEP? And do you use all caps (to keep it relevant! Haha)?
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We use all caps because the people who pay us want to read it at half scale.
We don't get to decide if want to use revit its the architect's who hire us are now starting to require Revit.
I see benefits with Revit for arch etc,, but we do electrical and express our design in 2d and schematics, so most time is spent trying to get it to produce 2D drawings that are needed if they want it built in the real world.
We use Sentence Case because the end users want to read it at half scale, and peer reviewed studies have shown that sentence case is better for this.
Peer reviewed studies from Tinker onwards have also shown that sentence case is:
Easier to read.
Easier to read in low light conditions.
Easier for people with visual impairments to read.
Easier for people with dyslexia and similar conditions to read.
Aids understanding and comprehension more quickly.
Survive degradation through object (smudging) use better.
and, certainly to my mind, peer reviewed studies trump anecdote and opinion.
It is also offers consistency throughout the document set with:
Project Reports.
Design Basis Statements.
Tender Documents.
Calculations.
Architectural Drawings.
Geotechnical Drawings.
Geotechnical Reports.
Surveys Reports.
Scientific Studies.
RAMS.
etc ad infinitum.
Basically, the rest of the project set.
Sentence case also offers greater flexibility, e.g. being able to use capitalisation to highlight specific areas of importance much more effectively than bolding in a uniform blob of block capitals does.
There are a lot of very good reasons to use sentence case, and I haven't found one for using block caps.
In comparing BLACKBOX's Images above besides being easier to read at the same text size "Dimension", "Mtext" & "Text" all take up less space on the drawing. Using title case is the only way I was able to label trees for example on a drawing with 60 or more on it. It simply wasn't possible with uppercase without reducing the text size.
No where else is all uppercase acceptable, why is it acceptable in drawings?
"How we think determines what we do, and what we do determines what we get."
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Computer Specs:
Dell Precision 3660, Core i9-12900K 5.2GHz, 64GB DDR5 RAM, PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD (RAID 0), 16GB NVIDIA RTX A4000