Importing DWG files

Importing DWG file perfect but file comes in as a block individual lines
I drew 2 straight lines(autocad 2013) saved them imported them and came as a single object.

Given:
There are preexisting entities in the SketchUp model space…
Upon import into SketchUp, the geometry of a CAD file is automatically made into a Component.

If there are no preexisting entities in the SketchUp model space…
The imported geometry is not automatically made into a Component.

Entities within the context of a Component are isolated from the rest of the model.
Enter the editing context of the Component to work with the entities within it.


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If you import new geometry [e.g. from a DWG] into a completely empty model then it arrives as ‘loose’ geometry.
But if there’s anything already there, then the imported stuff is [wisely] kept within a new component, to separate it.
This means that its geometry will not interact with any preexisting objects.

But you can always select this new component_instance and explode it, so its geometry then [might] merge with the context’s geometry.