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Jeffrey, >> I don't think they are AME solids anymore. << That's right, and that is the answer to the drawing file size question. Let me explain…. AME adds additional information to the file that controls how AME deals with the entities as solids (this information is contained on the AME_FRZ layer). When you loaded the file into 3DS, this information was just discarded, as 3DS is only concerned with the face mesh. Subsequently, when you DXF'd the file back from 3DS to AutoCAD, all you got was the face mesh. That is why the first file is significantly smaller than the second. Chuck