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In my case, my company used cadkey until we swwitched to 3-D (SW) There are decades worth of designs in 2-D format that get re-born. I use FreeCAD to make 3-D models for Electromagnetic FEM on commercial software at work. In the spirit of increased productivity I find myself working nights and weeke...

In my experience at least, unless the imported geometry was greated with a closed polyline in the original software, upgrading to wire is almost always required and almost always works. Unless the profile isn't closed, in which case it will always fail.

Another way: Import test.igs goto the draft wb and select test in the combo view then hit draft upgrade http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/images/b/be/Draft_Upgrade.png You will see the mame changes to wire Now select wire and upgrade again, the name changes to face. Switch to the part wb, select face a...

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Can you post your sample igs file. I don't have a program that exports igs on this computer. I want to dry run before I post so as not to confuse anyone

with OS: Windows 7 Word size: 64-bit Version: 0.14.3700 (Git) Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-14 Hash: 32f5aae0a64333ec8d5d160dbc46e690510c8fe1 Python version: 2.7.6 Qt version: 4.8.5 Coin version: 4.0.0a SoQt version: 1.6.0a OCC version: 6.6.0 Default: No errors With extended BopChecks-TRUE I get the sa...

OK, I see tensor cad can export in IGES.

So export in IGES format from tensor cad then

File > Import
In the lower right hand corner of the Import File pop-up expand Supported formats choose IGES then type in your filename

DXF is possible but IGES is likely to give you less problems in FreeCAD

What other application? What file format are you saving in the "other" application. I don't know why your full About FreeCAD info isn't being copied to the clip board but I can see you installed the 32 bit version. Is you operating system 32 bit or 64 bit. If you can install the 64 bit ver...

If you can post a sample .dxf we can see if we can repeat the behavior.

Ok I give up - I see an irregular face with some thickness, and an empty sketch - what are you trying to illustrate? This is true for most cases - however, if you want to move an entire face back or forward, you have to trace all the edges... I was trying to make that exact point. A poor attempt at...