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Andy, >>ACAD DXF -> 3DS… In my humble experience, the success of conversion depends largely on how the model is created in ACAD. I've built scads of geometry in ACAD AME, and DXFed it (mostly) without problems. I think DXFout, Entities, Binary is generally recommended. I've also brought in models made by someone else and spent weeks fixing them up. Sometimes it was easier to use the ACAD geometry as a dimensional and placement guide and recreate portions of the model from scratch in 3DS. A couple of points, besides the things you've already tried… If any of the objects are built manually in ACAD, he must make sure he actually built all the faces. It is easy to miss some. Can he "Shade" or "Hide" the model correctly from several viewpoints after meshing? If not, make him fix the model. Unfortunately, after seeing some "expert" ACAD construction, I would hesitate to estimate a 3DS project until AFTER I loaded the DXF and checked it out. JKJ