CAD-Trans DwgTextTranslator

DwgTextTranslator

Translate your AutoCAD drawing text in a single dwg file or multiple drawings all at one time using Ms Excel.  Our tool is an easy-to-use professional DWG language translator application for AutoCAD 2007-2018.

If you do not have AutoCAD: Let us do the conversion. Send us your drawings, and we extract the texts to Excel.  You translate the Excel file, and we insert your translations to the drawings.  You also get pdf  files of the drawings.  We request 4€ per drawing for this service, if the drawings are of normal size.

Conventional methods:
When AutoCAD drawings need to be translated into a different language, conventional methods are expensive, slow and prone to error.

Problems translating AutoCAD drawings on your own:

    Text can difficult to find on large AutoCAD drawings, all texts may not be found.
    The translator must be familiar with AutoCAD.
    Blocks containing variable attributes may cause problems.
    The procedure may be extremely slow.

Benefits using our translator tool:

    Allows the translator to concentrate on the translation work.
    The translator does not have to work in the AutoCAD environment.
    Your translated database (Ms Excel) runs outside of the AutoCAD.
    You can take advantage of your CAT software features: translation memories, glossaries, etc.
    You can have both the source texts and the translations in the same drawings.
    The graphical formatting of elements stays unaffected after the translation.
    Translated files might be produced in hours, not days.

Translates AutoCAD drawings in 2 ways
Our tool can work on individual file or in batch mode.  Either way, your AutoCAD drawings will be translated into your desired language using just three steps.

Translate a single drawing
With this command you translate the active drawing, using an Excel workbook.

Translate AutoCAD drawings in batch mode
You can translate entire projects or folders of AutoCAD drawings with batch run.

Requirements:
AutoCAD 2007 - AutoCAD 2018 / Ms Excel 2000 or higher

Independent Reviewer Opinions:
"DwgTextTranslator delivers real cost and time saving when translating AutoCAD files. The production of pdf's on extraction allows context to be checked for consistency and the reinsertion of text saves hours of AutoCAD work"
Daniel Howe - IT Director at Kredo IT Ltd

"DwgTextTranslator is the perfect tool for translators using AutoCAD. I could increase my productivity skywards. And the support service always responds very quickly and efficiently. I wish I had known this tool before. I strongly recommend this tool for translators who work with AutoCAD."
Joao Marcelo Trovao - Professional Technical Translator
Brazil

Specifications

Preview drawings:
When selecting drawings to be included in the translation process you can see thumbnails of the drawings.

Translating numbers:
By default, the DwgTextTranslator omits texts that contain only numbers, but you can configure the application to also include numbers in the translation process.

Layers included in the translation process:
You can choose the layers you want to translate, this speeds up the translation process and you can easily omit such layers which texts you don't want to translate.

Layer for the translations:
You can define a layer for the output translations.  You can freely choose the name of the layer and it's color. In this way you can have both the source texts and the translations in the same drawings, but on different layers.  You can for instance have English texts on the layer "English" and Chinese texts on the layer "Chinese".

Move all texts to a layer:
You can move all the texts in the drawings to one specified layer.

Print to pdf:
You can print all your drawings and their layouts to pdf files.

Use a CAT tool for the translation work
Translate the texts with your favourite CAT tool (Trados, Systran, WordFast, SDLX, Déjà Vu, etc.)

Elements included in the translations process:
The application translates all AutoCAD text elements.  Also proxy entities are translated.

Multi line texts:
The application uses a smart way to handle AutoCAD multi-line texts (MTEXTS).  The formatting parameters and the text content are separated, so you only need to deal with the actual text content.

Bi-lingual drawings:
You can print the translations underneath the source texts, and hence have two languages in the same drawings.

Unicoded languages:
You can translate to, or from unicoded languages, such as Chinese, Russian or Japanese.  When translating to such languages you can define which big-font you want to use.

Sorting the texts:
The texts are saved in the Excel workbook in a descending order from the top of the drawings.  This makes it is easier to read and translate the texts in the workbook.

Speed:
All time critical routines are placed in an arx-module, which means that the conversion process is extremely fast.

Combine texts
You can group together several single text lines into coherent multi-line texts, before the conversion process. This makes it easier to read and translate the Excel file.

Overlapping text
If the translations are longer than the original texts was, you can shorten the them by changing their width factors, if they overlap other texts.

Customize the conversion process
You can change text font, save to an older AutoCAD format or do any other action that you specify during the conversion process.

Use the application as an add-on:
You can use DwgTextTranslator as an add-on on other AutoCAD applications.

Files:
You can access all files output by the application from within DwgTextTranslator.

Requirements:
AutoCAD 2007 - AutoCAD 2018 / Ms Excel 2000 or higher

How it works

Step 1:  You select the drawings that you want to translate.  The translator tool goes trough the drawings and exports their texts to the column "Drawing text" in an Ms Excel table.  In this example we translate English drawings to Chinese ones.

Step 2:You translate the table by filling the "Target text" column with the translations.   This can be done in different ways:

?  Using a CAT tool, such as Trados, Systran or Déjà Vu.

?  By typing the translations.

Step 3:  The translator tool  goes trough the drawings, and translates them using the updated table.

Customers

Some of the customers who have chosen DwgTextTranslator:

NOOMUS TRANSLATION SERVICES OY, Finland

SAIMATEC ENGINEERING OY, Finland

THYSSEN KRUPP HOESCH BAUSYSTEME GmbH, Germany

ALSTOM POWER INC, United States

BATTERY HANDLING SYSTEMS, United States

BAYS TRANSLATIONS, United States

CHLORIDE SYSTEMS, United States

GBD ARCHITECTS Inc, United States

SOTORION CORPORATION, United States

LARSEN & TOUBRO (L&T), India

FLUOR, China

Download a free trial of DwgTextTranslator

We will send installation instructions to the email address you enter. You can download the software and try it for up to 30 days. If you decide to purchase the application, we will send you a module that removes the 30-day limit. You need not to reinstall the software.  If you have any questions, please let us know, we give full email support also during the trial period.