Thanks again, I've been slow to check this forum, busy.

I tried the circles dxf with much the the same result as before. The circle is 'square' as seen in the 3rd attachment, also if I try to make it round you can also see there is a sharp node (maybe start and finish) in attachment 1. An import straight into SheetCam converts it to polylines, very similar to QCad, otherwise I'd say the problem is limited completely to QCad.

I wouldn't worry about it too much, if extraction of arc and line entities is on the drawing board then that's good enough for me!

BTW I did something useful in 3D lastnight and it was all done in 15 mins. Apart from a little playing on SolidWorks and over the years and more recently with Alibre, I'm no 3D designer. Very cool. I might make a gallery post.

- Antony.