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DWG to DGN Conversion Table
NotesMicroStationAutoCAD
Colors are matched as closely as possible.
Colors set with the ACI (AutoCAD Color In-
ColorsColors
dex) are translated directly to the DGN color
index. If TrueColor is used and a direct match
of RGB values is available in the DGN color
index, the colors are also mapped directly. If
a TrueColor match is not available, an RGB
value is added to the DGN color index.
Custom linetypes are unsupported and could
produce unexpected results.
Line StylesLinetypes
Blocks are exported as shared cells. Dynamic
blocks are also exported as cells and lose their
CellsBlocks
dynamic behavior. Invisible, Constant, Verify,
and Preset attributes are all converted into
tags.
The visual integrity of multiline text is main-
tained. However, if exported multiline text
Text, Text Nodes,
Text Styles
Single-line Text
Objects, Multiline
objects are edited in MicroStation, the
formatting is lost.
TrueType and SHX fonts in AutoCAD are ex-
ported to MicroStation V7 as Engineering.
This can result in many visual differences.
Text Objects,
Text Styles
Table objects are exported as cell elements
composed of lines and text.
TablesTables
In general, fields are translated as static text.
The exceptions are fields that behave
FieldsFields
identically in both products. This includes the
Date fields CreateDate, SaveDate, and Plot-
Date, and the Document property fields Au-
thor, Filename, and Filesize.
NOTE Use the MicroStation Key-in utility to
update text containing fields (field update
all).
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