Archives de Catégorie: CAD – CAO
Comment traduire les plans de CAO (I)
Ami lecteur qui as besoin d’une traduction de plans Autocad, voici trois points important à retenir avant de contacter un prestataire de services de traduction. Les fichiers Autocad, au même titre que certains autres fichiers graphiques, comportent souvent des éléments textuels que tu as besoin de faire traduire. Alors que, pour la plupart, les fichiers […]
The project manager
Thanks to ever-spreading recruitment companies and the dictatorship of English over the Web, anyone who’s in charge of some job can call herself/himself a ‘project manager’ these days. After all, if you’re working for a translation company and your job is to manage the translation projects, you are indeed a ‘project manager’. But what’s a […]
La théorie du Cao
Traduire des plans n’est pas un exercice de tout repos, surtout quand on n’est pas spécialiste. Les maigres informations qu’on trouve sur le sujet, la plupart du temps en anglais, sont produites par des vendeurs de logiciels qui veulent nous refiler leur came. Fear not, ami lecteur angoissé à l’idée de devoir investir dans un […]
How to translate CAD Drawings (IV) – Using CAT tools (II)
I have already discussed the problems related to the translation of CAD drawings. In a previous post, I even had a look at a small software, called TranslateCAD, which can extract translatable texts from drawings and convert them in small Unicode text files, allowing the translator to use her or his favourite CAT tool. TranslateCAD […]
How to Translate CAD Drawings (III) – AutoCAD VS Revit
You’ve seen my previous posts about translating CAD drawings and they made you smile because, having worked as an engineer for many years prior to becoming a translator, you actually know how to use AutoCAD and have access to a licensed product – or to a trial version. So translating AutoCAD drawings is not really […]
How to translate CAD drawings (II) – Using CAT tools
In the first post about translating drawings, I mentioned that some CAT tool programmers have been investigating the problem and some interesting solutions exist. Maybe that was a bold statement. Although I’m sure that the big guns are already working on the matter, I believe none of them has actually managed to crack the nut. […]
How to translate CAD drawings (I)
While most translation jobs involve conventional text processing files (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, PUB, PDF, INDD, etc.), construction documents are often graphic, i.e. drawings drafted on CAD software such as AutoCAD (file extension : DWG, DXF, etc.). What is there to translate on a drawing and why would you need a translation? Drawings always contain annotations, specifications, […]
