Layers of autocad

Hi everybody,
I can not import the layers of an autocad document (. dwg) to Illustrator CC. how should I do? thank you all for your help
bonjour,
je n'arrive pas à importer l'ensemble des calques d'un document autocad (.dwg)vers illustrator CC. Comment dois-je procéder pour résoudre ce problème?
merci

Wade, this is what the opened dwg looks like and also the layer panel. I believe all of the layers are showing as visable with the eye active on the leftside od the panel. I have the size as fit on board, but in autocad it is 43 feet long, is there anything I have to do to scale it besides checking fit to board? Thanks, Pat

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