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Thanks Phil, >>The new R13 entity types (splines, ellipses and ACIS solids) will be >>skipped. To bring these new entities into 3D Studio simply use R13's >>3DSOUT command. This is the _only_ method to convert ACIS entities to >>polyface meshes (somewhat akin to the old "SOLMESH" command). To bring >>splines and ellipses in as shapes or lofts you will have to SAVEAS12, >>import them, and DXFOUT for 3DS usage. Except that 3dsout doesn't seem to work yet and r4c1 won't read acis entities in a .dxf file either. I just loaded acadr13c1 and am testing 3dsout, but my first attempts to 3dsout a file w/ acis solids (using r13c1) locked up my machine. As I've been asking anyone who'll talk to me, do you know of a new (> 1991) dxf3ds.exe program. The old one won't touch an r13 .dxf file. BTW, are you w/ ADESK or do you have to work for a living <bg to ADESK>? Thanks again for your quick response. Any other advice will be greatly appreciated. Joe Miller