Addin to export all text on a drawing

[bsee1]

The end goal is to translate all text on several hundred Inventor dwgs from English to Chinese.  I'm planning to develop an addin (hopefully using apprentice) that will open each drawing and export all text on the drawing to a excel/text file.  We'd have a human translator translate all the technical text.  The same program would then open each drawing, find the matching english text and replace it with the translated text.  

Simply: Is there an easy way to loop through *all* text on a drawing? 

[philippe.leefsma]

Hi

I don't think there is an easy way to acheive that. You would need to write specific code to iterate through the various collections of each object in a drawing that can contain text. That text can be accessed in a different way depending which object we are talking about.

I also cannot guarrantee that Apprentice exposes enough of the API to achieve that task, you would to give it a try.

Sorry for not being more helpful.

Regards,

Philippe.