Dashed lines always indicate some form of heirarchy. What I sualy do when importing is select everything then scale down until they fit within the grid view. Most of the times I’ve pulled external files in, the models are impossibly large, (like many kilometers). Once I’ve shurnk them and applied scale, I find it easier to figure out what is gonig on. Hope this helps.
Yeah, I use Ctrl+A to pull everything in once I’ve shrunk the scale.
Edit: But if you have a line indicating a parent without an actual parent object, that’s odd.
However, that said, when things are huge, it tends to be the distance between them is so big that the line appears to go off into the distance.
Is the DXF under NDA or something ,or could you give a link so I could take a look at it. I know that you do get some oddities with them at times.
Daft question, if you select the object which is the theoretical parent, then ‘]’ to go to the child, what is selected in the outliner?
This is the result I get using the Autocad DXF import in Blender 2.79
I checked it against viewing it in 3DE and also pulling it into LW, it looks the same in all of them.
Although large, it’s not too bad, scale by 0.25 puts it within the grid area more or less.
Ricky … did you attach the original DXF? One possibility is that if blocks are used, they are not being exploded properly. Or, perhaps there’s an X-ref that needs another file. Hard to tell without using the original DXF in an application that is fully compatible with AutoCAD.
2D object in Autocad are made of polyline generally ( if it have been created correctly ), or line, so yes basically thoses can be considered as curve… In general you want closed Polyline for export DXF anyway…
It is quite possible that Blender interpret closed curve as a full object too.
I will explode block before export the file.
Theres one guy here who is architect too who have post many time about how work with dxf and Blender . im pretty sure you can find his posts somewhere.
The file is 46,145 bytes
EDIT: Oh, I’m an idiot, ignore me - gimme a minute. :-p
nope - hmm, gonna re-download the file
EDIt2: Nope - exactly the same result.