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Ken, I downloaded the Atlas software, started a new drawing inserted all their turnouts and saved it as a dxf file. Don't cut & paste as you want everything to be ACAD entities. The Atlas components will be imported as individual blocks within your drawing. Hints: In the Atlas program, go to View/Properties/Texts & turn off "Display Article Numbers" otherwise they are imported as text within the block, not as attributes that you can do anything with. (Just my preference.) Before saving it as a dxf, draw a straight line that you can use later as a dimension reference. Opening the dxf file, you will find that you need to scale down the entire drawing. Example: In the Atlas program I drew a 5" line using their "ruler" at the top of the drawing area.. After saving as .dxf & opening in ACAD, I simply used the scale function to reduce that line and all the turnouts along with it.. Define an MLine and you can use it as a straight section of track to snap to the turnouts. Wayne
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