There are always some of exchange for partical objects in DGN file. Existing work flow for part of objects to dwg file:
Select objects to be exchanged
Set DisplaySet
Draw a Fence
Use "Copy Fence Contents to New File" Tool to copy them to a new DGN file
Open the new DGN file
Save as DWG.
That would save the "opening" and "save as" times if the Copy Fence Contents to New File tool could directly copy them to DWG file.