Hey Steve, 

You can't run an FME Workspace on a host that doesn't have FME Form installed and activated.

You'll have to ask them for all the files to be able to process them on your side, or if you have FME Flow, publish a workspace that they will be able to run with their files by themselves.

Thanks for above.

The process would be run by the client running our Hexagon GIS solution. The user would select a file to import. I can use our API to futurize the input but I’m missing the ability to open and read the CAD file (AutoCAD, MicroStation). That's the piece I’m looking for.

So I need a solution that might use FME to read the supplied file and return ascii, json data I can traverse. Or I can combine our API with that of FME’s. FME opens the file and passes me the elements. I futurize then.

Any thoughts?

Sounds like FME Flow is the solution here (FME Form to build the solution). You can tie this into other applications through the REST API or build you own custom ones with Data Virtualization

Hi ​@stevebruton ,

New to FME, have a client using FME ...

Sounds the client has FME (Form?) license, doesn't they?

If so, you can create and distribute your workspace (*.fmw) which performs the required process, and they can run it on their machine with their FME license. No need to think of distributing DLL - a part of FME software.

Thanks,

To clarify, client has FME, I assume on a single machine where a power user can work with the data.

I have a GIS app on dozens of machines, on these machines, with our API I can do all the featurization, we just need a snippet of FME to open the file and feed us the basic characteristics (Layer, Colour, etc.) and the Geometry.

I’m trying to find out more about the clients FME. Maybe I can push the request and file from the client to a batch interface and return an open json structure?

Steve