UG & Spell Checking

[Shadowspawn]

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

 

[feadude]

The best way to do this is to buy your detailers and checkers dictionaries. After all by this time they know that their spelling is not good, that is if you have told them.

good57morning@netzero.com

 

[looslib]

The best way is to put your standard notes into a GRIP or UG/Open program. That eliminates the designers having to type them in.

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

 

[Xwheelguy]

Can't we still import text files into the Annotation Editor? Type your annotation in Word or something that already has a spell checker & save the file as a text file after you spellcheck.

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.

http://www.enkei.com

 

[UGperson]

You can also copy (Ctrl+Insert or Ctrl+C) from any text app and past (Shift+Insert or Ctrl+V it in the anotation editor.

 

[Shadowspawn]

Gentlemen,
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

 

[J-C]

UG should realize, like other CAD companies have, that eginears and deziners can't speel and should include this basik funktionallitey in UG

Jason

 

[Shadowspawn]

Gildashard,
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

 

[feadude]

Why do not you just order your detailers to check their spelling the first time and type it right the first time. That way they or you do not have to go through all this pain?
"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

 

[ewh]

feadude, I can speak from experience that it is much easier said than done. When you spend days or weeks preparing a complex drawing, some mistakes seem to become invisible unless you set it aside for a period and look at it from a fresh perspective. This is why there used to be drawing checkers. The current attitude of checking your own work is fine unless you need it released NOW. I don't think I would last long working for someone who demands "Either do it RIGHT the first time or do not do it at ALL", unless he was willing to let the drawing sit for a couple of days before it was handed off.

 

[J-C]

Especially on large number of drawings, I will give them to a co-worker to check if time permits. After you stare at the same prints for days and even weeks, you will miss the most obvious things.

My previous employer had a Coordinator/Checker who would catch most errors before being released. My current employer has no such person.

Jason

 

[HellBent]

A past employer of mine had a China office. I found it funny how the drawings we got back from them were almost always correct, but the drawings created by my co-workers here in the good 'ol USA were almost always wrong. The managers liked the China drawings. Better learn how to spell people....

 

[J-C]

They probably pay someone $.25 an hour to check drawings. Maybe a team of people, get 8 people to check for $2.00 an hour.

Jason

 

[HellBent]

lol...probably true. But either way it gets done right....in China.

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....