Authoring

Hi, I’m trying to calculate the volume of various areas of beach using point cloud data. I want to calculate it above a horizontal plane at a level input as a user parameter and I have individually references mif/mid polygons demarking the areas. I have been using the method at the below link as a starting point, but the problem is the beach is sloping, not flat, meaning using the z.median value gives an incorrect result. https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407483031053-Volume-Measurements-with-the-VolumeCalculator Any suggestions for a solution would be gratefully recieved!

Hello Forum, I have a polygon dataset of railway land, but it contain holes where items such as buildings, tracks and signal boxes would be. I need to fill in these holes to form a continuous polygon. The image below shows a sample of the data. I’d want to fill in holes like those marked in red. But I do not need to close spaces such as those marked in gold. I’ve seen…. … but I don’t think that’s suitable for the task. I’ve also looked at Dissolver, but I’m not sure if that's the right way to go. Any ideas, please. Thanks, Stuart

Hi, I need to find into a network of GPS lines the location where 2 line overlaps or where a single line overlap The problem is that of course the lines aren’t exact the same (the lines derived form GPS points so I don’t have a duplicate geometry) and only a portion of this lines overlaps see picture attacherd If you need the sample of shape dataset let me know thx Francesco

Hello Everyone, I have two datasets, which I essentially want to stack on one another. One datasets has data on rivers, streams, and brooks, while the other has information on ponds, lakes, and reservoirs. They all have the same attributes, so I just want to add the pond, lakes, and reservoir data as new rows in the river, streams, and brooks dataset. Can someone please help me figure this out?

I'm trying to use the WHERE Clause in a FeatureReader. I'm reading in an Oracle SDE featureclass and want to only select those records that match an attribute in a csv file I've loaded. I'm assuming that I have everything setup correctly where the attributes from the csv file are FME Feature Attributes. It seems when I add the @Value(col0) to my WHERE Clause, it breaks. How can I check to make sure it is setup correctly?

I tried generating measures on street segments but the measuregenerator is not calculating it right. It starts every segment from 0 instead of calculating from the end log. Any ideas how to resolve or calculate measures on segments with no measures? Thanks in advance!

Hi, I need to use Upsert to either Update or Insert features into an Oracle database. If I use Insert to add values it works a treat, so the connection to the Oracle tables is good. As the Oracle tables are large, when adding the writer I use Import from Dataset… This picks up the format of the date fields and all sorts. It works well for initially inserting the data. However, when dealing with deltas, which might be Inserts or Updates I want to use Upsert. I can test it on a filegeodatabase and it works perfectly. Taking that knowledge into the Oracle process like this: I use the NODE_ID as this is the unique identifier. However, this fails. So I have followed the guidance to implement fme_db_operation, I have created a new attribute field of that name, and used a FeatureReader, FeatureMerger, and then AttributeCreator to define whether the feature is classed as INSERT or UPDATE. All works well in the workspace, and a manual / visual comparison between Workbench and the Oracle table c

Hallo FME enthusiast, I am trying to create a 2D overview map from 3D roofs (OuterEaves). What is the goal?The goal is to create a 2D view map from the top and those areas below should show the area in 2D, which seen are from the top and the highest Areas should stay on top. What attributes do I have for the roof surfaces?-ID of the building-xyz coordinates of the OuterEaves But I fail because of the intersection of the roof surfaces. The 3D data set is not 100% cleanly created and therefore I have up to 10 overlaps of the roof surfaces to each other or even within themselves.My question to you: What is the easiest way to clean up these overlaps in 3D space so that I get my result? King regards, Michael

i was reading on FME Form Advanced module, in Generic writing sectionand it has this part that mentioned : When you use the Generic Writer, it is sometimes helpful to pre-configure parameters specific to individual output formats. For example, you must specify a seed file to write a Bentley MicroStation Design file. To do this, add a writer to a workspace. This step causes Workbench to think that there is more than one output format and forces Workbench to create a Multiwriter for the workspace. The first writer in the multi-writer will be the Generic writer, and this one should have all the output feature types. The second writer will have no feature types but will be used to communicate any format-specific writer settings to the Generic writer when FME users that format for the Generic writer. Suppose you configure the Generic writer to write to a format requiring a filename as a dataset. In that case, the Generic writer will turn the output folder into a filename by appending a file

Hi, I would like to setup a FeatureReader to read all the XML files in a onedrive folder. My OneDrive (graph) connection works and I’m able to view the contents of my folder. I am able to select individual files to read in the FeatureReader parameters but I want to be able to read all XML files. How would I go about accomplishing this? Thanks in advance.

Hello everyone, How can I place my points on a terrain model? I don't have Z values ​​for the points I have, but I have a rester data in Tiff format, how can I place my points on this terrain?

Herkese merhaba 3B ağaç verilerim yatay görünüyor, onları nasıl dik konuma getirebilirim? (döndürücü ve 3d döndürücü) Bu iki aracı birçok kez denedim ama işe yaramadı. Bu durumu nasıl çözebilirim?

Hello everyoneI have data in shp and obj format. I have a tree model in obj format, I want to assign it to points in shp format, then I want to export it as cesium 3d tiles, can you please help me with this? I tried this method with GeometryInstantiator, but I think I am doing something wrong

Hello, Is there any way to assign Index “Primary key” to the field and Type “serial” somehow in another way rather than in Feature writer - User attributes? These options are not present in AttributeManager transformer, unfortunately. That would help me to reduce number of manual adjustments and use “Automatic” attribute definition. Because I have many FeatureWriter transformers in my workspace and I need to replicate it to read another data.

In the above image, I read a text file that contains lines of data where specific lines that start with an ID relate to different features. In the #1 category it contains the projection information but I want to be able to set the projection of the other output ports based in the information in that line. How do I hold and set the projection of the Lines, Points, etc? I was thinking that I may just need to read the text file twice, once to get the projection from Port #1 and then have a feature reader that can then set the projection before processing the other output ports. Is there a more efficient way of doing it?

Hello. I have a JSON file the looks roughly like this, containing a list of un-named values: { [ { “UniqueID”:123446, “Dealership”:”Dan’s Dodge”, “Owner”:”Dan”, “BestSelling”: [ “blue”, “red”, “blue”, ... “red” ] ... “Telephone”:”411” }, ... ] } My first JSONFragmenter feeds two workflows: the first workflow captures the named values (including “UniqueID”), and the second workflow immediately discards everything but “UniqueID” and the JSON from the first JSONFragmenter and then uses a JSONFragmenter to turn the JSON list into Features. Finally, a FeatureJoiner that adds to each newly-minted Feature an Attribute containing the appropriate name for its unnamed value. Now it’s time to FeatureMerge the new Attributes back into the first workflow by matching on “UniqueID”. Alas, the newly-assigned names are stored in the same Attribute of each JSON-list Feature. So, after FeatureMerger merges the first Feature, the transformer’s Conflict Resolution decides whether to preserve the Attribute

I want to Run FME process through task schedeuler. The fme workspace is reading data through postgresql. I am able to run it through any specified user. I want to run this through LOCAL SERVICE in Task scheduler.But it is showing error. My 0objective is the process become independent of user Error connecting to PostgreSQL database(host='', port='', dbname='abc', user='', password='***'): 'fe_sendauth: no password supplied Thanks

Trying to free up some space on our existing FME Flow server and noticed that there is a folder on the root C: named “FME” that have various FME installations folders. In each of those folders, there is .cab and other installation (.msi, .exe, .log) files. The total file size of these folders is ~50GB on the server! I cannot find any documentation that states that is okay to remove these files. Does anyone have any information about these? Thanks for any help! -Cameron

Hello, Im using FME form on macSilicon and ran into an error trying to run simple workspaces: /Library/FME/2024.1/fme is trying to execute itself. Aborting to avoid infinite loop. I managed to solve it temporarily by reinstalling the whole package, but after a while it started giving me the same error. Ive tried different workspaces from the tutorials with the same result, I imagine is something about the setup. Any suggestions can help, thanks!

Hi, I have seen a few articles about updating metadata using the ArcSDE writers, which involve writing data and adding metadata simultaneously. However, what I want to do is just add new metadata while leaving the existing data unchanged (without accidentally overwriting it with nothing). I already have my metadata and types formatted as described in the articles I’ve read. xml formatted for esri import However, I am struggling to determine the exact settings needed for the writer. Since we don’t have a test system, I want to ensure I’m on the right track before proceeding. That said, I can create some test tables to trial the process. This is a related article which also update the data: https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407507870861-Working-with-Geodatabase-Metadata-Writing-Updating-Metadata Any guidance would be appreciated. I also have an external list that matches my metadata GUIDs to the gdb tables, so my ultimate goal is to loop through all the layers and apply the me

Hi this puzzles me: using FME(R) 2022.2.3.0 (20230131 - Build 22789 - WIN64), when reading an Open File Geodatabase from a zip file, features are duplicated. I created and attached a template which demonstrates the error. The workspace uses two readers to demonstrate the phenomena, both of type File Open Geodatabase. The first reader reads from ..\test.zip\test.gdb The second reader reads from ..\test.gdb Records on the first reader are duplicated. When reading from just test.zip the duplication does not take place. Is this behaviour as meant to be?

Hi, If I’m writing a fme-binary attribute out to jpeg using an AttributeFileWriter is there any way to publish as DataStreamer on FME Flow?

Hi,I am wondering if someone can give me some ideas on how I could pass the result of a sql query from a sql executor so that the result or specifically an ID is passed sequentially so that each is fully processed before the next one starts. So the result is as shown below. The attribute I’d like to pass one by one is either the device_id or the row_index. I have had a look at this post iterating/looping a workspace using attribute values | Community but cannot formulate the workbench to do this task.Any suggestions very welcome.Thank you. fb

Has anybody experienced an issue starting FME Form (tried from v2023.2.1 to v2024.2) when having 3 displays connected. We have 2 LG 24MP60G 1080p monitors conected to a Dell Alienware X15 R1 (Intel Core i7-11800H 4.20Ghz, nVidia GeForce RTX 3070 8GB GDDR6, 32 GB DDR4). In this setup FME opens as a blank white windows. If we disconnect any monitor FME starts as usual. Please let me know if anybody else experienced something similar or if this is a known issue.

Connection to postgres seem not to close after query execution to postgres db. We are here allowed to have 5 connections to the postgres db and with the SQLExecution for each feature entering the transformer, a connection is established but seem not to close after the the query has been executed. After 5 features have entered the sqlExecutor I receive an error message: Error connecting to PostgreSQL database.....................: 'FATAL: too many connections for role "xxxxxxx" Is there a way to close the connection after each featue that enters the SQLExceutor? We are using FME 2021.1