Hi all,

I found a Tree of Life pattern on the world wide web that I thought was pretty cool and want to pull it into solidworks so that I can have it made in metal or whatever.  The problem is that is really wont extrude properly, or at all actually. 

Normally I can pick the outedge and the face and it detects all the cutouts and works just fine.  That method doesn't work at all on this, i am assuming because there are so many plines and arcs.  I can manually select some of the cutout features and can extrude with just them but it wont let me select others.  This actually seems to change a little bit everytime I import in the design.  If you edit the boss-extrude feature, you will see how many features are not able to be selected by clicking in the middle of them.

My first guess was that some of these pline features aren't closed so I picked a couple that were working, a couple that werent working and then deleted all the rest in the autocad drawing and tried importing that and they all worked exactly as they should.  So no I am thinking I have hit some sort of limit or perhaps my machine is just too old and slow and cant crunch the number fast enough or perhaps I am just dense and don't get something completely obvious.  So I am shooting up to you guys to teach me a thing or two.

I am working in 2011 so if you post a file, please keep that in mind. 

Included are the original dwg file and the part file that has as much extruded as it will allow me.

Thanks in advance and happy holidays/new years everyone.