ALL CAPS

[bowlingbrad]

I can't find any 'Express' tool to accomplish this in Revit. - Text to be all CAPITALS

I was thinking that it might be nice to have a instance parameter for text that allows the text to display as all capitals or all lower case.

[beegee]

Currently the only work-around for this is to use a font that only displays caps. Some of the "architectural" fonts are set up this way.

[aaronrumple]

...already did this in my office.

I used a font editor to make a all cap font from a standard truetype font. Worked great. (Although I still prefer drawings in upper/lower case...)

[hand471037]

Before using Revit, I always did everything all caps for clarity. Now that I can use 'real' fonts, I'm finding that I really don't like the all caps anymore, and do uppercase/lowercase instead for everything...

But i've been in a spot where I wanted to swap a bunch of stuff from one to the other, so an All Caps 'express' tool would be ok.

But what I'd like even more would be a 'find and replace' text editing tool. I used that constantly in AutoCAD...

[Scott D Davis]

workaround ahead!

type in lower case, highlight, ctrl-c, switch to Word, ctrl-v. Highlight text, right-click, font, All Caps. Cut-n-paste back into Revit.

Now, Word, embedded as the Text editor......that would be cool!

[Shaun v Rooyen]

Almost a year ago and this feature still has not appeared. The most irritating thing, IS WHEN YOUV'E TYPED SOMETHING IN CAPS, AND YOU HAVE TO RETYPE IT, OR CUT AND PASTE.!!!!!!!

[Andre Baros]

Work around:
Print out the drawing, white out the text, then Hand Letter all over that. Isn't that why we use all caps anyway?

Kidding aside, I would use this feature alot: All caps, Title case, lower case, strike-through, etc. Automatic text formating is what computers are for.

[hand471037]

Work around:
Print out the drawing, white out the text, then Hand Letter all over that. Isn't that why we use all caps anyway?

Back in Arizona, where I went to school, I heard that in some counties that the Architects would print out their CAD drawings and have interns trace them so that they looked 'hand-drawn' because the Building Dept. didn't trust CAD drawings, and would look at them with much more scrutiny, than they would at the hand-drawn sets. This was ten years ago, so maybe it's better these days, but you could get work as an Arch student tracing drawings for folks sometimes...