Multi-Language Electrical Component Tagging

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  Multi-Language Electrical Component Tagging
  October 3, 2006, 08:43 PM Nate Holt

  First line English, second line Spanish (or French or ??) - not a problem. Here's a little AutoCAD Electrical utility that tries to map the first description line of component text to an alternate language. On success it will write the translated string to the second description line of the component text.
  
  Here are a couple pushbuttons with English DESC1 values. Fire up the attached AutoLisp utility and...
  
  
  
  ... make the "to" language selection, then window select the components to process, and...
  
  
  
  assuming that AutoCAD Electrical finds exact matches on the target text, will write translated description back to the drawings as the second "DESC2" description line.
  
  
  
  
  The AutoLisp utility is here and its associated "dialog" defintion file is here. Put the dialog definition file somewhere in the AutoCAD or AutoCAD Electrical search path. Appload the ".lsp" file and then type LANG_DESC1_TO_2 at the command line to launch the utility.
  
  This will work on exact matches found in the language mapping file (default file name is wd_lang1.mdb). Don't be afraid to try to enhance this utility. For example, make it work on "substring" matches ( ! ).
  
  
  

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