Maybe I have a slightly slow computer, but the changing the dimension value in Pad was extremely sluggish. You didn't say, but I assume that I initially open the DXF using the Draft Workbench.Ģ. The main thing I had missed was selecting the button for Create Sketches in DXF Preferences.ġ. I'll go back and look at the first two again, but in the interest of expediency I used the suggestion of sgrogan to crank the 'board' out. HolesBeforeExtrusion.JPG (121.51 KiB) Viewed 2509 times HolesAfterExtrusion.JPG (147.32 KiB) Viewed 2509 times DrillBoard.dxf (11.01 KiB) Downloaded 92 times The purpose of all this is to generate a 0.062' thick STL file that I can print on my (home-built) 3d printer, just to check part fit in an enclosure before I send the board out to fab. So, how do I make the board into a solid, with the holes being holes in it? If I select all, and extrude, what I get is extrusions of these elements, ie lines and circles in the Z direction. I've read other posts, and I'm not even sure if I need to convert to a sketch to do this. ( I did NOT convert it into a sketch, as I'm not really sure how to do this at this point. I'm in the FreeCAD Part workbench, and can import the DXF okay, I've attached a screen shot.

I use a printed circuit board program called Diptrace, and have outputted from it a DXF file containing the board outline and holes only.

I have a very simple (I think) problem to solve. I'm a bit confused about the usages of all of the different workbenches, and trying to figure it all out.

Diptrace 4.0