To Translate Description Text

The Language Conversion command converts description or switch position component text from one language to another.

  1. Click Project tabOther Tools panelLanguage Conversion. Find
  2. Select what to process.
  3. Select the "From" and "To" languages to use.
  4. Specify if multiple lines of the component description text are translated based on exact or partial matches.
  5. Click OK and the components or drawings you want to process.

When AutoCAD Electrical toolset finishes, it displays a report listing what was successfully translated and what was not. You can use this report to surf to the problem areas (where a phrase could not be translated) and make manual edits one by one.

Tip: You can add more phrases to the translation table using the Edit Language Database File tool (Project tab Other Tools panel Edit Language Database) and rerun the language swap to obtain more satisfactory results.