• Get a text editor that supports Unicode (such as the freeware Babelpad). • Open the DXF file in the text editor and search for the word acdbMtext. • Search for ” 1″ (two spaces and a number 1). • The next line of text has the text within the CAD drawing. Translate the text within the text editor. • Repeat. Search of acbMtext again and again, translating what you find. Save the DXF in the text file. • Open the drawing or DXF file in AutoCAD. • Use the MTEDIT command or, in later versions, double-click each note or annotation to edit it. • Use DDEDIT to change annotations in a block or border. • Replace the text with the translation. Make sure that the resulting text displays correctly. • Get a trial version of TranslateCAD, a shareware tool that makes all the hard work for you and extracts the text to a Unicode-encoded text file (the trial version lets you extract only the first 50 words). • Translate the text with your favorite CAT tool (Trados, WordFast, SDLX, DejaVu, etc.) Regenera