Phrase Translator

By using the dictionary, you can add translations to texts in a drawing. The program will position them to a specific drawing layer.

The text added to a drawing is a phrase. The phrase can be formed by one word, a character string, or several words, character strings that are simultaneously added to a drawing.

Change phrases in a drawing as follows:

1. Activate the layers that you want to focus the function on.
2. On the tab, select Text > Phrase Translator.
3. Select a dictionary.
4. Select the option:
   • Do you want to type translations for the texts that cannot be found in the dictionary.
   • If you answer Yes to the above question, the program prompts you to supply translations for the phrases that do not exist in the dictionary.
5. Type translations for the texts, if necessary.
6. Show the layer on which the translations will be located once the function is complete.

The users can maintain and supplement the vocabularies in the dictionary themselves.

Maintain a Dictionary

Word book operation

The Phrase Translator is case-sensitive according to the following rules:

1. The entire word in capital letters.
2. The entire word in lower case letters.
3. The first letter capitalized, with the rest in lower case.

The function handles letters according to the rules presented above. If the text does not comply with the rules, the translation will be displayed in the same form as it is found in the dictionary.

Text files and databases can both function as dictionaries. The advantages of a database include:

• A database can contain translations for several different languages.

• The same database can be used to translate parts lists.

• Text files can easily be listed from a database (dictionaries).

The word book provides translations for the texts in a drawing, provided that a translation has been defined. Otherwise, the user will be prompted to type the translations. The translations provided by the user are stored in the dictionary.

The Phrase Translator can use several dictionaries, Finnish->Swedish, Finnish->English, for example. The Phrase Translator includes a dictionary containing the translations.

The program reads translations for the drawing's texts from the dictionary. The program asks whether the user wants to save new translations in the dictionary.

After using the word book, the translations are positioned on certain layers as defined by the word book. The corresponding layer must be set visible, which means that the original text and the translation are on top of each other. The layer on which the original text is located must be made invisible. The translations replace the original text if layer -1 has been defined to the word book.