Is there a way to use Trados to translate CAD files such as dxf?

Question

Those technical diagrams are killing me, everytime! Sometimes I got a PDF, sometimes I got a PNG... 
 I want to solve this from the begining... ! Any ideas?

Jesús Prieto · Answer

Rui , 
 You have here how to deal with AutoCAD files: http://noradiaz.blogspot.com/2015/09/translating-autocad-drawings.html The free version will let you extract the first 50 words of the DXF file and hopefully is enough for you. You have also https://www.translatortools.net/products/transtools/autocad-translation 
 You can try also the tool mentioned here: Translating Autodesk formats in SDL Trados Studio As mentioned in the Ideas section, there are no plans to create a plugin for AutoCAD files: Plugin for autocad I guess the PDF and PNG files have been created via AutoCAD and are useful references to know the context while translating the DXF file.

Jesús Prieto · Answer

Rui , 
 ok, so there is nothing in the TXT that you can take advantage of. 
 You can find a regex to match those strings you don't want to be extracted and add as many regex rules as needed. The following are examples that you can use: 
 The regex to match alphanumeric strings such as NGB3 is: ^[A-Z]+\d+$ Add it along the rule you already have as a placeholder and Translatable = False. Another example is 1A and 20A . If you need them to be extracted, the regex to be added is: ^\d+A$ Another can be CN_GUSW-A1 , which can be: ^CN_GUSW-[A-Z]+\d+$ Lines consisting of a single letter: ^[A-Z]$ 
 Lines consisting of only digits: ^\d+$ 
 One last example. If you need to get rid of Japanese-only lines, you can also this rule: 
 ^([一-龯])$ 
 I hope these regexes help you and give you some ideas. As I said, add as many rules as you need.

Paul Filkin · Answer

Rui 
 Perhaps an interesting approach based on what I think I'm seeing here is to create a default regex delimited text filetype, but then use a rule like this as an inline tag: 
 ^[^\u3400-\u4DBF\u4E00-\u9FFF\uF900-\uFAFF]+$ 
 That will filter out all the strings that don't contain Chinese characters so you're left with this:

Paul Filkin · Answer

Rui 
 You can do this by amending the inline tag as follows: 
 ^[^\u3400-\u4DBF\u4E00-\u9FFF\uF900-\uFAFF\u30A0-\u30FF]+$ 
 A brief explanation for anyone who may want to do something similar... at least an explanation of the unicode parts: 
 \u3400-\u4DBF , \u4E00-\u9FFF , \uF900-\uFAFF : These are Unicode ranges for Chinese characters. Including these in the negated character set means the regular expression will not match lines that contain Chinese characters. 
 \u30A0-\u30FF : This is the Unicode range for Japanese Katakana characters. Including this in the negated character set means the regular expression will not match lines that contain Japanese Katakana characters. 
 It seems to work quite well for me...

Paul Filkin · Answer

Rui 
 Maybe too late by now, but if you're still working with these filetypes this might be interesting for you? 
 https://appstore.rws.com/plugin/483

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Is there a way to use Trados to translate CAD files such as dxf?