UG & Spell Checking
UG & Spell Checking
(OP)
Hi folks,
Does anyone have any ideas on checking for spelling errors on drawings? I've just been tasked with coming up with a means of eliminating the spelling errors found on our drawings before they've been released.
At this point, I'm open to any suggestions or ideas. Sending our detailers and checkers back to English 101 is not an option, and the only other method that has been suggested is to copy/paste the note into MS Word and using it's spell checker to check for errors (not at all efficient and painfully mundane...).
Perhaps someone has heard of a grip or Ufunc routine that accomplishes something similar? If so, I'd love to hear about it...
Thanks in advance...
SS
Does anyone have any ideas on checking for spelling errors on drawings? I've just been tasked with coming up with a means of eliminating the spelling errors found on our drawings before they've been released.
At this point, I'm open to any suggestions or ideas. Sending our detailers and checkers back to English 101 is not an option, and the only other method that has been suggested is to copy/paste the note into MS Word and using it's spell checker to check for errors (not at all efficient and painfully mundane...).
Perhaps someone has heard of a grip or Ufunc routine that accomplishes something similar? If so, I'd love to hear about it...
Thanks in advance...
SS





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good57morning@netzero.com
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Revision history data is harder. A dictionary is the best way for the free-tninking note type data.
"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
"Fixed in the next release" should replace "Product First" as the PTC slogan.
Ben Loosli
CAD/CAM System Analyst
Ingersoll-Rand
RE: UG & Spell Checking
When in UG (NX2 or higher), click the Annotation Editor icon. Another toolbar should pop up in the upper left corner of the graphics window; click the far left icon to bring up the old style Annotation Editor. Look for the Insert from File icon on the Annotation Editor icon palette.
That should do it.
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
RE: UG & Spell Checking
RE: UG & Spell Checking
I appreciate the comments and suggestions, and have taken them into consideration. Without going into the problems of changing the "cultural attitudes" around here associated with implementing some of the "new fangled" abilities of UG (such as tabular notes, etc.), I still have the problem of finding a way to eliminate typo errors on our drawings, hopefully before they get released and thus forcing an EC to correct.
The approach I'm taking, considering we have legacy data to contend with, is somewhat convoluted but seems to work. I'm developing a grip routine to extract all notes and labels, along with their origins, into a text file which will then be imported into Excel for spell checking (MS Word wants to check for grammatical errors). This way, the detailer can switch back and forth between the drawing and Excel, correcting any errors identified.
If anyone can think of a better approach, or suggestions for improvements, or whatever.... than I'm all ears. Thanks all for their replies...
SS
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Jason
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It does surprise me that spell checking functionality hasn't been incorporated yet, as either a basic functionality of the annotation editor or as a tool option in Xess (which is the built-in spreadsheet that mimics Excel, for all of us non-Windoze users). I find it hard to believe that it hasn't been suggested a few thousand times as a product enhancement request...
SS
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"Either do it RIGHT the first time or do not do it at ALL"
I had the same problem with my draftsmen until I posted the above expression in three inch high letters in their offices.
May be this helps your detailers.
good57morning@netzero.com
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My previous employer had a Coordinator/Checker who would catch most errors before being released. My current employer has no such person.
Jason
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Jason
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Leave it to America to task someone with the job of creating a procedure to correct a faulty procedure rather than place accountability on the shoulders of those responsible in the first place. Gotta love it....