{"id":1508,"date":"2013-11-12T13:54:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T13:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2015-11-04T11:30:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T11:30:51","slug":"new-in-solidworks-2014-all-uppercase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/new-in-solidworks-2014-all-uppercase\/","title":{"rendered":"New in SolidWorks 2014: All Uppercase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For an added level of clarity, ASME requires that notes on drawings be capitalized, except for cases where lowercase is used as a common abbreviation.\u00a0 SolidWorks 2014 now allows you to set any annotation note to be all uppercase, while giving the option to preserve lowercasing of certain elements such as metric units of measure.<!--?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/--><\/p>\n<p>The setting to capitalize notes and balloons is available in the PropertyManager within the <em>Text Format<\/em> group box, call \u201cAll uppercase\u201d.\u00a0 <em>All uppercase<\/em> setting applies to an entire annotation.\u00a0 When checked, text is automatically capitalized, both while typing and while being edited.<\/p>\n<p>Example 1:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"_x0000_i1025\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/11-11-2013-9-48-20-PM-615x234.gif\" alt=\"As typed\" width=\"615\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"_x0000_i1025\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/11-11-2013-9-49-53-PM-615x232.gif\" alt=\"All uppercase\" width=\"615\" height=\"232\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Though the annotation is displayed as uppercase, the originally entired text is preserved, so you do not lose data.\u00a0 That means, at any time, you can go back to the non-capitalized state.<!--?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/--><\/p>\n<p>As with most other settings for annotations, <em>All uppercase<\/em> can be set as a default at <em>Tools<\/em> pulldown&gt;<em>Document Properties<\/em> in the <em>Uppercase<\/em> area.\u00a0 Also available in this area is the <em>Exclusion list<\/em>.\u00a0 This is a list of exceptions that will not be capitalized when <em>All uppercase<\/em> is turned on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"_x0000_i1025\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/11-11-2013-9-57-42-PM.gif\" alt=\"DocProps for Uppercase\" width=\"370\" height=\"125\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Exclusion list\u00a0is case\u00a0sensitive.\u00a0 For example, if you have a unit of measure\u00a0\u00a0that\u00a0normally is\u00a0displayed as mixed case (such as Hertz as \u201cHz\u201d),\u00a0this\u00a0is understood and respected by the <em>Exclusion list<\/em>.\u00a0 When a text string matches an entry on the <em>Exclusion list<\/em>, it is not forced to be capitalized.<!--?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/--><\/p>\n<p>Wait!\u00a0 What if there is a common letter combination that happens to be a common abbreviation, such as \u201cm\u201d or \u201cmm\u201d?\u00a0 SolidWorks knows when to capitalize the text and when not to capitalize.<\/p>\n<p>Example 2 (note that mm for millimeter is lowercase, but \u201cmm\u201d within the word \u201cdimmer\u201d is capitalized):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"_x0000_i1025\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/11-11-2013-10-13-39-PM.gif\" alt=\"mm not MM\" width=\"375\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Posted by Matt Lorono in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2013\/11\/new-in-solidworks-2014-all-uppercase.html\" target=\"_blank\">SolidWorks Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/index.php\/products\/solidworks-2014-whats-new\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/REP_Launch2014_DesignWithoutLimits_600x90.jpg\" alt=\"REP_Launch2014_DesignWithoutLimits_600x90\" width=\"600\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For an added level of clarity, ASME requires that notes on drawings be capitalized, except for cases where lowercase is used as a common abbreviation.\u00a0 SolidWorks 2014 now allows you&hellip; 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