All translations created with DrawingTranslate are based on the glossary, so you must create it before using the utility.

If there is no glossary (which is the case the first time you use the DrawingTranslate tool), you must run the process once on one or more files and save the glossary with the translations.

If the translation database is empty, the following message will appear in the window.


 

Selecting the source language to use:


  


Selecting languages for translation; you can check or uncheck any languages:

 


Click the " Apply " button.

If no annotations were found in the translation file, this message appears, prompting you to export those annotations:


 


Save the CSV file. You can view the processing report.

All annotations are inserted into the corresponding first column, and a column is also created for each selected translation language.


 


In our example, we now need to manually translate all the notes for the "English" and "German" columns.


 


Save the table. This table is not the glossary, and must now be merged with the glossary.


Glossary Update:

You can edit the glossary at any time to add or remove entries (see the location of the glossary file in the “processing options”). There are two ways to do this:

  • Manually: Manually add notes and translations to the glossary.
  • Creating a table: Create a new table (as shown earlier), and merge this new table into the glossary.

New notes will be inserted in the glossary, excluding existing notes.