Creating complex shapes and importing them from .DXF ino pad shapes...

Sometimes I have to create complex pads for footprints (like the small AVX 9175 wire to board connectors).

In such cases, AutoCAD is my best friend. It handles "lines and stuff" in an excellent way and it is easy to create

complex shapes and "polyline them" which then can be easily imported into the Cadence PCB Editor environment

and then into the Padstack Editor. Also using drawings from connector manufacturers by extracting the

top view in an appropriate scale and then importing them as incremental and mapping the imported

.DXF layer to geometry/outline (or silk) saves hours of tedious work.

But:

Why does not Cadence PCB Editor honors the coordinate and origin settings in the imported .DXF?

I do set the 0,0 in the center of the shape .DXF. I do limit the extent of the .DXF to be just covering

the outlines of the polyline shape in AutoCAD before saving the .DXF for later Cadence Import.

When importing a .DXF polyline shape, the PCB Editor seems to randomly choose origin 0,0

and also the extents of the imported shape. When importing a complex figure such as a flat cable

connector outline or even an ordinary thing such as a large DSUB connector outline, all of a sudden

the extent of the editor canvas is enlarged and the imported .DXF ends up far away from the

"copper" or other parts of the footprint-in-creation.

This behavior is present in 17.20 as it was in 16.6

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there any way to correct it?