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Table Of Contents
Supported Entities
All 2D and 3D geometry including shapes, complex shapes, meshes, cones, surfaces, B-spline
boundaries, solids, SmartSolids and Feature Solids, lines, arcs and ellipses.
Splines and B-spline curves.
Lights.
Levels.
Cells and shared cells and their instancing.
Colors and ambient, diffuse and shininess properties of materials from .pal and .mat palette and
material files.
Texture maps.
Reference files including aliases.
Dynamic drawing of parametric models when loading/exporting DGN and PRP files.
3D text used for notes and labels is now converted and displayed by default.
Family, Part and Texture information from TriForma, and PDS object information from .drv files.
DMRS and database linkage and association ID's.
Unsupported Entities
Raster bitmaps.
Dimensions and leaders.
DGN File Reader Options
Setting the .dgn file reader options:
1. On the Tools menu, click Global Options.
2. Expand the File Readers node in the Options Editor dialog box, and click the DGN option.
The DGN page is displayed.
Converting Files
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