Thanks love2all....good idea....I already had that and opened the file in it after my last post. Oddly enough, the drawing appears but when I rotate it, it rotates like a drawing on a flat piece of paper (see graphic)...not a 3D object. Other dxf files like those from 3D Cafe open and rotate as true 3D objects. This leads me to believe that it is the file or it's format. I acts more like a flat vector graphic than a 3D object. I don't have much experience with dxf other than downloading some files so I don't know if my above statement is true. Thanks for all the responses.