I am using GMS 9.2.4 and when I open the dwg file after a "convert to CAD" from GMS, the contour line layer is empty. It works with GMS 8, but not in GMS 9. It didn't work in earlier releases of 9 either, so I have been going back to version 8 to create a dwg. Is there another way to convert your contour lines to CAD in Version 9. I am actually just trying to bring them into ArcView, and I have always gone through the cad file as an intermediary. Is there a better way to bring the contour lines directly into ArcView from GMS?