Rhino-7 Import DWG Problems

Rhino7 seems to have a problem importing nested dwg blocks and xrefs. In other words they are missing from the model import. This happens across various models. My system is Windows 11.
I have re-installed Rhino6 and the AutoCAD import works well - much as expected. However I am now locked out of Rhino7 - unable to re-validate my license key!!!
Whats going on?

Your Rhino 6 is currently locked to a machine named ANNICK, the Rhino 7 needs to added there as well. Or you will need to remove the Rhino 6 validation to be free to add elsewhere.

Note that you want to be on the latest Rhino 6 (6.35)

https://wiki.mcneel.com/rhino/6/changelicensemethod

https://www.rhino3d.com/features/administration/licensing/

Thanx - licensing problem now solved.

Any thoughts on the problems I am having importing dwg models into Rhino7? R7 fails pretty badly compared to Rhino6.

We will need more info about the issue you are seeing, there are a lot of improvements to dwg import, including dynamic blocks (WIP only)

Hi John -
This is a known issue which is due to a 3rd party library update. We are looking into our options here…
RH-72439 Open DWG: incorrect blocks in Rhino
-wim

@wim
Any timeline on solving this problem?
I seem to remember that this started to happen recently. We have reopened a paused project and it all went a bit crazy.
In one case a block that was on the layout of a AutoCAD file appeared in the model space.
N

Hi Nuno -

I’m afraid not, no. The latest information on this is in RH-72439 Open DWG: incorrect blocks in Rhino.

I suppose you could try to revert to 7.24 where this shouldn’t be an issue.
-wim

We had the same issue and went back to 7.23 and it works. Maybe the 7.24 also works.

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RH-72439 is fixed in Rhino 7 Service Release 29 Release Candidate