Dahzee

Presumably no one else has had either of these issues?

I am new to Designer so am probably doing something wrong and hopefully the observations below are an easy fix. I have just tried to import a .DWG into Designer V2 and it came in OK and had all the layers and was the correct size. When I copy and pasted it the layers are ignored and the new entities are all added to the current layer, so all I have now is hundreds of different coloured lines all on the wrong layer (not very useful at all). Secondly when pasting into a new document, the pasted entities have become scaled, so a line that was 10mm long is now 2.3mm long. Also I opened a .DXF file and changed the Document Setup from Inches to Millimetres, but the Transform box (bottom right) still shows the sizes in Inches? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

I am slightly mystified by this thread. I looked on the website of the Open Design Alliance (www.opendesign.com), who make libraries for reading and writing .dwg & .dxf files. In their list of members under Founding and Corporate is Serif! Unless this information is very out of date, I am confused why they would be a paying member and not using the libraries that would enable both import and export of CAD files, weird.