Plotting 2D .dxf files out as 3d correctly

[codral]

Hi guys, i'm a trainee surveyor and at the moment am trying to work my way through a bunch of autocad 2010 tutorials and am a bit stuck.

 

Basically i survey power poles and boundaries and these are imported in .dxf format from another program. I have learned how to extrude 2d objects into 3d ones however i am having trouble extruding from a .dxf.

 

My main current problem is that i can only see my imported .dxf files in the Layout1 and Layout2 tabs, the Model tab is empty. Is there a layer option or something that i can't see? I am under the impression extruding only really works from the model tab, is this correct?

 

i have a few other questions but i'll leave them till later

 

cheers, and nice forum

[codral]

nevermind, figured it out, put it into block editor mode

 

Cheers guys

[codral]

the file i've imported seems to have lost all it's attributes, it originally had heights etc, is there any way i can view these?

 

And is there any easy way to set the scale? Like for example if the top of a cylinder was 9.75 meters high how would i set the cylinder to be that tall.. if that makes sense, i've set the mode to surveyors, and the measurement is in mm but i cannot see any measurements besides what i assume is autocads standard scale.. I want to eventually be able to measure distances between poles and heights etc etc, but in a 3d environment.. so i need a way of inputting it to a scale

[codral]

So i've figured this out now, cheers for the help, trial and error worked in the end, took a while tho lol