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When you say you tried DXFing out _just_ the AME solids, but that they wouldn't load, what _exactly_ happened? Everything went fine, but there was no geometry in the 3DEditor when you were done, or 3DS locked up, or what? The more specifics you can give the better. Pardon if you know all this, but to DXFOUT an AME solid, you first need to set the SOLWDENS ACAD variable to control the mesh complexity, and then SOLMESH the solids. Also, you can not DXFOUT by _entity_, as the meshes are blocks, I believe, by default, and DXFOUT by entity does not write out blocks. So you would either need to explode the mesh-blocks first, or not use the "Entity" option in DXFOUT. As far as locating the allegedly over-large entity, try DXFing out each layer by itself. Remember, you can't use the entity option if you want blocks to export, so you'll have to either: a) Explode all blocks, and then turn all layers off but one, and do a DXFOUT/Enities/<select all visible items>/Binary. Then turn off the visible layer and turn on another to repeat the excercise, and so on. -or- b) Load the "dellayer" LISP routine that comes w/ ACAD. Save your DWG. DELLAYER all layers but one. DXFOUT/Binary. Either undo back to before you used DELLAYER, or reload the DWG. Repeat for each layer. Using either of these methods, you will then have a separate DXF for each DWG layer. As you try bringing each of these into 3DS, you will find which ones won't import. If there are some layers which have _obviously_ low entity counts, then you could write those layers out together, saving you some work. What is the drawing of, if I may ask? Dave