If you feel comfortable installing and configuring hardware, then you might want to consider a hardware firewall in form of a Cable/DSL router. The hardware firewall handles everything on its own without any input from you and you also won't have to read any reports or make any decisions. The firewall handles everything on its own. Installation, however, can be tricky, so this option is definitely more suited to advanced computer user.

My Firewall is Installed. Now I'm Safe, Right?

With your new firewall in place you are probably thinking that your computer is impenetrable, right? Well, maybe not. As important to security of your system as a firewall is, some do have their limits. Most software firewalls won't scan your system for viruses that can harm your computer and there aren't any hardware firewalls on market that offer virus protection. That means that you are still vulnerable to attack.

The best line of defense against viruses that can harm your system is anti-virus protection.You can either buy a seperate anti-virus program or shop around for a software firewall with anti-virus protection built-in. You may never be able to make your computer 100% hacker-proof, but installation of a firewall coupled with anti-virus protection will greatly reduce your chances of becoming a hacker's next victim.

Next, transfer every drawing entity including text, linework and graphics to layer zero (0). You can keep old layers but it may cause you grief in future if you have to convert a Solidworks drawing back to Autocad. Keeping everything on one layer will make conversions as simple as possible. Make sure you purge Autocad drawing after converting everything to one layer.

Converting everything to one layer may require that you explode certain blocks in your drawing so that you can reset their entities to layer zero. You may then want to reconstruct those blocks or leave them exploded. Solidworks can read your text attributes and blocks if you choose to reconstruct them. If you have any polylines in your drawing border, explode them also. Leave linework simple and adjust line thickness later within Solidworks.

You should now be able to open Autocad drawing in Solidworks and Solidworks conversion wizard will guide you through drawing border creation process. Once your border is visible on screen in Solidworks you can edit copy whole thing, right click edit sheet format and edit paste whole border into Solidworks version of paper space. Then file save as new sheet format and you are ready to go!