Change language for drawing only

daniel_crookston

I'm working in a foreign country right now and would like to print drawings in a foreign language without editing all the fields manually.  Is there a way to do this without changing my entire account to the different language?

Thanks!

Oliver_Couch

Do you mean change the language of your drawing files, or change the language of the UI?

There's no existing way to automate translation of files. But you can select an alternate language for the UI.

martin_kopplow

I know the situation he's in, from my own experience. I'm german, but a relevant part of my work is for english speaking (or international) customers. So I use the english UI language setting to make everything easier on all parties. Now here comes a traditional german client and he doesn't want any english on his drawings, for the people working on his shop floor are Otto Normalverbraucher (german for average joes) just like him, who can't understand "Thru Hole" and such. I made german localized templates for this case. I changed the Watermarks. I set my display language to german befor starting work. But then I create a hole annotation and it says:

A part is still not "ein Teil", an assembly is not a "Zusammenbau", a drawing is still not "eine Zeichnung" and so on. So nothing gained here, and I have to make all these changes manually each time and one by one. maybe I should just keep using the english UI. Sometimes I wish I could kind of select "Client Prefs" each time I'm creating a new project. That would then include drawing formats and language as well as logos and other things and these would be called whenever the project is worked at. (I won't use inches, no matter what settings, though.) 

Im my opinion, it makes no sense to have all preferences on a per user level. A per project strategy appears much more logical to me.

fabian_mühlberger066

I am having the same issues with my Austrian sheet metal fabricator. The guys on the shop floor misread "up" for "ab" which means down.

Even thought I set the language to German, and in the drawing settings do German, it seems some translations are missing and always show up in English…
I would appreciate it if you could look into that.

Best
Fabian