If you use Mechanical Desktop select from the surfaces pulldown menu 'from AutoCAD'. If you don't have Mechanical Desktop you can export a solid object with the 3DSOUT command and then import the file back in using the 3DSIN command. The object will come back as a polyface mesh. This may not...
There are two ways of doing this. One way is to create a block that has an attribute with which to place your bearing. Another way, which will require a program to be written to do it, is to place the bearing as a varible in an extension to the entity definition data. Either way the bearing...
I would venture to guess that you are doing something wrong. I have never had the problems that you state. The only thing that I can think of is that you might have overlapping views. With overlapping views AutoCAD might be trying to snap to something in one view when you want to pick...