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#3DS v3 DXF Weird Imports

    05-Dec-94 15:54:35
Fm: James Coulter[Mindscape] 73670,677
To: Bill Valaski 73447,2041
In addition to Ted's good advice, here are some observations I have made for best results when importing a DXF from ANY application: 1) In the "other" application, save the different parts of your objects to different layers. 2) When importing to 3DS, derive objects from Layers. Do not Weld on import. Do not Unify normals on Import. 3) Once the object is imported, you can weld it by selecting all of the faces in a single object and using Modify/Vertex/Weld. 4) You can then try to Unify the normals by using Surface/Normals/Object Unify. Some manual clean up may be required as per Ted's advice. Good luck. — James — MAP —