DXF Import
Mark,
I tried your DXF export puzzle using ACAD v12 and 3DS r2.01. I got similar
results when DXFOUTing by ENTITY/BINARY, selected by Crossing (except that
L1 became L02, L2 became L03, and L3 became L01). With DXFOUT/BINARY (not
by entity) however, everything was in order. I had created the layers in
order (L1, L2, then L3), then created the entities in the same order, one
per layer.
A little experimenting seems to indicate the objects may be created
numerically in 3DS in the order in which they are selected in ACAD, either
by their internal list order, or by manual selection in the ENTITY mode:
the entity I picked first was always named L01, etc.
JKJ (works summers as an entity picker)