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Larry, there is a method that you can use to recompose the individual line segments into a continuous segment. By importing the dxf file into AutoCAD, and selecting one of the line segments with the pedit command, AutoCAD will ask if you want to convert that line segment into a polyline. Once converted into a polyline, additional options will allow you to join the rest of the line segments in the drawing to the polyline (assuming the accuracy of the coincident points exported from Corel-draw is high enough). Simply select all lines in the drawing with the AutoCAD "window" selection, and AutoCAD will process all the segments that can be joined. Once the "joining" is completed, you should have one single polyline in the drawing. Create a new dxf file of this drawing from AutoCAD, and run that through dxf3ds and you should have a continous path to use. Keep in mind the 999 point path limitation…..if your polyline contains more than 999 vertices, there is "weeding" programs available in the ACAD forum, that will "weed" out unnecessary vertices, and reduce the number of points that construct the polyline. Some of the accuracy of the polyline will be lost of course, but the results are usually pretty good.