... : Martin Wynne Hi Al, Welcome to Templot Club. The DXF import in Templot is fairly primitive, and is intended mainly for vectorized scans. It can't handle solids, and doesn't close polylines. It failed to import your Illustrator file. Sorry, I don't know anything about Illustrator files or its DXF export, so I tried importing your DXF into TurboCad. Assuming your units are in inches, the overall size is around 48" x 13". It looks like this -- is this what you were expecting? dxf_in_turbo.png I saved it again in DXF (R12) from TurboCad, and I was then able to import the file into Templot. The polylines didn't close, and some lines were duplicated, so I tidied that up with this result (the turnout is in EM for comparison): al_crooks_bgs.png The .bgs file for this is attached -- it should load into your background shapes without problems. (In 091c, de-select the "grid in front of shapes" option.) If the sizes are all wrong or not ...