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This is an oft requested feature! Unfortunately, TAD has a lot of internal concepts that do not fit well with a drafting software. However, if you are prepared to create a DXF file containing CLOSED polylines, then you can get those polylines imported into TAD

This is what you need to do in the DXF. The importer is rather strict about it, so make sure you followed all the instructions given below:

1. Each object that would created in TAD will come from is own polyline. The name of the object and the class it belongs to would be based on the layer name which must be of the following format CLASNAME_OBJECTNAME i.e. there is an underscore between the classname and the object name
2. The polyline should have an “elevation” and a “thickness” The elevation property is used in TAD as the level. The thickness is used as its height
3. The polyline should be closed

CAVEATS

• This cannot import large DXF files. Please “chop up” the large DXF files into smaller DXF files –and as long as the polylines are not shifted around, all the objects will be properly imported
• The coordinates of the polylines will be the same as the one in the DXF. You may need to click on zoom extents to view the imported objects
• If you import the same DXF file more than once in the same TAD file, then the objects will overlap and you may be mistaken in thinking that the import did not happen