picus

Dear Colleagues,

There is an interesting tool that helps you to translate AutoCAD DXF drawings (versions 2000-2007).
http://www.translationtospanish.com/cad/download.htm

It is a shareware tool called TranslateCAD. You need to get a license, but it has a nice user interfase and offers technical support.

The trial version works well for drawings with 50 words or less (even if the drawing is a big file).

It fully supports Unicode to facilitate the translation of any language.
Since it generates a small text file, you may use with any CAT tool (Trados, Wordfast, DejaVu, SDLX, MetaTexis, etc.).

I hope it helps!

analaura

So, let´s say, you upload the Cad file, and then you get a txt file?
and does it work the same way backwards? once I get the translation in txt file, I can import that text into the autocad file?

analaura

Ok
I have the trial version now.
This is what I did, you tell me if I missed something.
I picked a dwg file, and I opened it with Autocad and save it as dxf.
I open this dxf file with this program, and then I get 2 txt files. (one is a kind of log? and the other is the text to translate).
Now, I can save that txt as an rtf file, or is that ok if I open that txt file in tag editor? (which trados opens this txt directly??)
Once I have the txt back translated, I did the same process backwards.

is this ok?
does anyone have the licensed version? is it worth buying it?

Veronica

Hi everyone!!

I also downloaded the trial and tested it with a drawing and worked pretty good.

Also, I imported a "more than 50 word" txt and it worked! I think the constrain is only for exporting

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mmm...papas fritas.

analaura

ah,so you mean you could import more than 50 words with the trial version, but you can only keep it to 50 word to export...
that´s good to know too...

anybody else has tried it?