| Name | DGN | |
| Full name | PDF - Portable Document Format | DGN (DesiGN) |
| File extension | .dgn | |
| MIME type | application/pdf, application/x-pdf, application/x-bzpdf, application/x-gzpdf | |
| Developed by | Adobe Systems | Bentley Systems |
| Type of format | Document format | |
| Description | The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and other information needed to display it. | DGN is the name used for CAD file formats supported by Bentley Systems, MicroStation CAD programs. The DGN format is used in construction projects, including buildings, highways, bridges, process plants, shipbuilding. DGN is a competing format to Autodesk's DWG. |
| Technical details | The PDF combines three technologies: A subset of the PostScript page description programming language, for generating the layout and graphics. A font-embedding/replacement system to allow fonts to travel with the documents. A structured storage system to bundle these elements and any associated content into a single file, with data compression where appropriate. | |
| File conversion | PDF conversion | DGN conversion |
| Associated programs | Adobe Acrobat, Adobe InDesign, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Google Docs, LibreOffice, Microsoft Office, Foxit Reader, Ghostscript. | MicroStation |
| Wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DGN |
Convert DGN to DWG. Convert DGN to DXF. Convert DGN to AutoCAD R2.5-2020 DWG/DXF file. Standalone program, AutoCAD and MicroStation are not required. Supports MicroStation DGN V7 and V8. Batch Conversion. Supports Command Line feature.
Dgn Viewer
Bentley View is a free DGN viewer, DWG viewer, and i-model viewer. It's a tool for projects that require a powerful viewing, measuring, and printing application for MicroStation, AutoCAD, or hybrid projects using i-models. With an installed user base in the millions, Bentley View is one of the most widely used free CAD viewers in the world. CAD Viewer is an DWG Viewer that views/prints DWF, DXF and DWG drawings up to AutoCAD 2021, as well as Microstation DGN, PDF drawings, HGPL, ESRI Shapefile, and multiple raster image formats. CAD Viewer features include save to PDF, convert DWG to PDF, DXF to PDF, DGN to PDF, with the option to output drawings individually or as a single. CAD files have a lot of format for different situations. That’s why there are CAD Viewer Software to cater the user’s viewing needs. Some of the formats for CAD are 3DS, DWF, DWG, etc. Today, we’ll be focusing on the DGN format for CAD and some of the computer programs that can read it. Bentley View is a free CAD file viewer that also lets you convert DGN to PDF. In it, you can view and analyze DGN, DXF, DWG, IFC, and other CAD files. It provides a lot of nice visualization tools to view DGN files before conversion, such as clip volume, display rule customization, change object attributes, element selection, measure distance, radius, angle, length, area, and volume, view.