How can I make a autocad dwg drawing into a rendering in cs4?

I'm taking an autocad file of a product into illustrator/photoshop cs4 workflow to create a rendering quality type graphic....
Is there a good tutorial anywhere, or will anyone be willing to help me through this project??
So far I have imported a dwg into illustrator, and when the cursor is on the gray lines (I made them that way in autocad), a blue line appears, and "path" shows up... those gray lines are a bit larger than what I think I will need... what is going on?
That is where I am at.... I need help from here...

<i don't know what's going on with your file. i get a lot of pdfs from autocad with layers intact. maybe someone else on here knows.>
I am not sure anything IS wrong with my file. my PDF does have all the layers intact. The problem is getting Illustrator to read those PDF layers...
1) Pt to mm font conversion:
Thanks for the font clarification. What exactly is the conversion between pt (which i belive is "points" on the pica system, correct?) and mm?) In Illustrator, if I select a 10pt stroke, it converts it to 3.528 mm. And if I select 3 pt, that's 1.058 mm. However, I went online to some sort of font converter website and it said that 3 pts = 1.0542 mm and 10 pt = 3.5141 mm. So what's the converstion. Btw, here is an interesting website that explains the different font types: http://www.oberonplace.com/dtp/fonts/point.htm
Even if i set the units to mm, i noticed that the items ins the stroke drop down list are still in "pt". How come Illustrator doesn't have the increments in mm?
About selecting everything on one layer - if i click the circle it says "click to target, drag to move appearance." what does that mean, what does the appearance refer to besides opacity? And if i click anywhere to the right of that circle, it says "indicates selected art (click to select art)." I assume that the triangle in the upper right hand corner of the layer just means that layer is current)
2) Pen tool:
Your tip on using the "join" command while using the pen tool is GREAT. thanks. that totally helps me. and it's control + j on a PC. what is the difference between the pen and the pencil tool? y do u recommend pen over pencil?
3) pc3 extension
Can you please tell me more about this? When and where is should the pc3 extension be used? What is difference exactly between Adobe PDF and Adobe PDF.pc3? What are alignments?
any other tips on how to color quickly and efficiently?

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