Hi everyone, I have a bit of an issue. We're working with Solidworks 2025 and Solidworks PDM. I have to use a lot of standardized symbols in my drawings and the easiest way I could find to make some of these is to just make a drawing of a block with dimensions and descriptors and export it as dxf or dwg to reimport as a block. However whenever I do that all the dimensions, markings, tolerance blocks etc either get lost or get moved. When I open the dxf in eDrawings or similar it looks like it's supposed to but the moment I try to use it in a drawing it gets all fubar.

This is what the drawing looks like:

this is what it looks like in the eDrawings preview:

and this is what happens when I import it as a block. The scale is all out of whack for some reason the dimensions are gone and all the annotations are all over the place:

is there a better way of doing this? Is there a way to convert all this to a sketch so I can actually export it as a block directly instead of going the dxf workaround route? I know I can convert the drawing views, but my issue is with the annotations. Or is there a specific setting that I maybe didn't see yet?

Does anyone have a good ressource for making drawing blocks to begin with? I switched from PTC Creo and as bad as that program is for the most part, the symbol functions so far are sadly better than in SW. Because I also don't really see a good way to make drawing symbols that are variable. Like what do you mean I have to make a separate block for each and edge finish value?