I don’t use FreeCad but I did find this
Installing
Note: for licensing reasons, the
DXF import/export libraries are not part of the FreeCAD source code anymore. For that reason, they must be installed by you, the user, after you install FreeCAD. There is a way to allow FreeCAD to do that automatically, or you can do it manually.
Automatically
Starting from version 0.15, you only need to mark the
Edit → Preferences → Import/Export → DXF/DWG → "Allow FreeCAD to automatically download the DXF libraries" option to have FreeCAD take automatically care of downloading and installing these libraries. For older versions, you will need to do it manually.
Manually
Libraries must be downloaded from
https://github.com/yorikvanhavre/Draft-dxf-importer There is a very complete step-by-step
tutorial that will explain you the necessary steps.
https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Draft_DXF
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