import error?

[Winnie Pooh]

Hello everyone,
I have a doubt: for a school exercise I modeled in autocad a room with furniture elements. Among these, there is a lamp inspired by the famous karim rashid cadmo. I attach the .dwg
the modeling of such solid has constituted a quite challenging moment of the exercise (I know that for experienced people it is a nonsense but I in my little I put a lot before understanding how to realize it). when amount in 3ds max, however, the program reads the lamp as a simple cable cylinder which is quite irritating.
I tried to change the import settings but there was not much to do, surely because I moved blindly and without identifying the a priori problem.
Can anyone give me any explanation?
Thank you.

 

[asalalp]

I care well... what version do you have of 3ds max and autocad?

 

[Winnie Pooh]

first of all thanks for trying to import it and for kindness.
i autocad 2008 and 3d studio max 9.
what settings did you use to import it?
Thanks again,
Good Sunday

 

[asalalp]

in autocad I moved the lamp to the coordinates 0.0.0 then I imported in 3d max with these settings.

 

[Winnie Pooh]

Thank you.
I followed the procedure you indicated to me but unfortunately 3ds still sees the lamp as a cylinder. mystery! At this point I think I will talk about it with the teacher (now I am quiet that my question is not too trivial). :smile:
Thank you again