DXF Import
Martin Foster 70303,456,
I guess your right. The behaviour might not be 'outlandish', but it seems
rather illogical. (If layers A, B, C come in as A01, B01, C01, then why not
have L1, L2, L3 become L01, L02, L03 or L101, L201, L301). Since L2
becomes L03, the name has been altered beyond recognition, ie there is no
way to recognize what was called L2 anymore since anything unique to it
name has been destroyed. The program has arbitrarily renamed the geometry.
With 3 layers, no problem. With 50 or so, this _is_ quite significant.
I first encountered this when I created some architectural geometry
(similar looking columns, beams and joists)in AutoCAD with numbered layer
names expecting to keyframe them in order to show the construction
sequence. I did this according to my storyboard, only to find they were
actually all out of order. At the time it struck me as sensless searching
about and learning how 3DS had renamed everything.
Not deadly, not unavoidable, but not good either!
Mark