[Boris Ulzibat]

what version of Maya are you using? Is the file name something like 1 or 001? Rename the file if so, make it a bit longer, Maya sometimes has a problem with file names, don't know why..

Maya 8. The name is MeasurePlan_1.dwg.

[lebbeus]

you should be able to import (this feature was disabled in 7.01, though 6.5 and 7.0 have this feature)

in 7.0 I had to enable the dwg importer in the plugin manager.

the connectivity that I'm talking about is a bit more, erm, connected--you can essentially xref an autocad file into MAX/Viz that will automatically update as the dwg updates, very handy when the design starts changing and if you're using ADT, then a good bit of the modeling is already started.

[Boris Ulzibat]

you should be able to import (this feature was disabled in 7.01, though 6.5 and 7.0 have this feature)

in 7.0 I had to enable the dwg importer in the plugin manager.

the connectivity that I'm talking about is a bit more, erm, connected--you can essentially xref an autocad file into MAX/Viz that will automatically update as the dwg updates, very handy when the design starts changing and if you're using ADT, then a good bit of the modeling is already started.

xRef is cool! But for me personally, i don't like the workflow of Max. Though i used every version of 3DStudio (pirated, i confess, but only for education - no works from it were even shown to anyone) since the DOS version of 3Dstudio 4. (Not MAX yet, that is)

[RonB]

Thanks for all the info guys, I appreciate it very much. I'm going to go with Maya.

Cheers, Ron