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Hello,Last night a forced .NET framework update disrupted a huge AutoCAD based translation.Now today, even after an uninstall and reinstall of FME, the workbenches i build are painfully slow and i ultimately cancel any processing because initiating translations just takes so much longer than it did yesterday.When i try and place an AutoCAD reader onto my Canvas, i get a message of ‘Trying to find a DYNAMIC plugin for reader named ‘ACAD’’. Ultimately the reader loads, but it is significantly slower than it was yesterday.The readers and transformers i place on the canvas are also extremely slow and when i try and run the workbench, the ‘Trying to find a DYNAMIC plugin for reader named ‘ACAD’ appears for a considerable amount of time again before eventually doing what i’ve asked. Has anyone experienced this issue before and know the root cause? Thank you in advance!

I have already built a workbench to go from DWG to our SDE however it requires standardization and some policy change for us. So it got me thinking if I could use Gemini (or any AI connector) to infer the correct layer from any given  asbuilt and extract the needed fields from it. different contractors name their stormwater layers completely different and its a pain.I haven't seen anyone post about it but i could have missed something.

I am experiencing an issue when inserting values into a subtype field in an ArcGIS Geodatabase using FME.I am attempting to populate the type field, which is configured as the Subtype Code field. However, FME returns the following error: 2026-07-23 12:10:18|   0.7|  0.0|ERROR |An error occurred while attempting to add the subtypes to the table/feature class 'lcLandcoverUnitInfo'. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147219885'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {An expected Field was not found or could not be retrieved properly. [lcLandcoverUnitInfo]} What makes this even more confusing is that I am using the same workflow in the same workspace for other tables, where the subtype values are inserted successfully without any issues.I have also verified the following:The field has the same data type. The field name is identical. The subtype code exists in the geodatabase. I refreshed/updated the geodatabase schema in FME to ensure it matches the latest changes.Despite all of these

Hello,I have a mesh model in 3D Tiles (JSON tileset) format. I can open it in Bentley Descartes, but the performance is very slow due to the model size. I would like to use the JSON Fragmenter transformer in FME to split the mesh according to polygons/areas that I have created. After splitting, I want to export each clipped section again as a separate 3D Tiles (JSON tileset) dataset.However, I have not been able to achieve this workflow successfully. Could you please help me understand the correct process for clipping and exporting a 3D Tiles mesh by predefined boundaries in FME?Any guidance, example workflow, or recommended transformers would be greatly appreciated.Thank you.

I’m considering moving my FME workspaces to a git workflow.  So far I’ve not used official version control, but I’ve noted that FME seems to be improving in this area.  Any tips or advice from those of you who have done this succesfully? 

Good afternoon all, Rather embarrassing first post but after many years of workspace creation I seem to have locked myself out of my own work. A few weeks ago I had added a workspace parameter password to a locally stored workspace, wrote down said password and now that I have come back to this work, it doesn’t appear to like the password I saved off. Is it possible to recover this access or is it a goner that I will need to rebuild?  Many thanks, Sarah Jane 

Just wondered if anyone else is having trouble registering for this event - when I get to the public registration page what I assume is supposed to be the register button does not seem to have any text or action when I click on it 

I get this error message in the system events log:Event Description: Triggered whenever a warning message is logged to fmeserver.log.Event Title: Warning Message LoggedMessage: Parameter STREAM_JOB_KEY_TTL missing from config file. Using default value of: 60FME Flow 2026.2 Build 26333Any hint where i can set the parameter? 

Hi,I'm passing multiple shapefile paths from Directory and File Pathnames to a FeatureReader. The FeatureReader reads all shapefiles together, but I need it to process one shapefile at a time before moving to the next shapefile.How can I make FeatureReader read and process each shapefile sequentially instead of combining all inputs?Thanks. 

I have a polygon with the 100m buffer along a linear infrastructure. I want to devide the polygon in segments of max. 1200m length. I have used the chopper but in the results were longer than 1200m.Do you have an idea how to solve the problem?  

I have very big IFC file in GB, what i  would like to do is just keep Attributes and export it as IFC file without loosing any order or level etc.  Only remove Geometry , below is what i am doing but not getting it right . Any support would be highly appreciated.   

Hello Y’all.Im checking out this guide here in regards of how to create a WMS on Flow by ​@LizAtSafe:How to Create a WMS Service Using FME Flow – FME Support CenterAnd its quite good.But in my case I need to create a WMS service on our Flow that is straight up harvesting an external WMS (a classic GeoServer). As in that our WMS just fetches a pre-defined layer from the external WMS service and then returns that to our users. Our users being Enterprise Portal users seeing this as a WMS in a webmap.I’ve kind of figured out that the main step here that is different is boycutting the “Create Image from source data” in the GetPNG one, but I am still bumping into problems.Anyone having an experience about doing this here that is eager to contribute?With regards, Hlynur.

I’m experiencing a discrepancy between LMTOOLS and the FME Form License Assistant, and I’d appreciate any insight or guidance.EnvironmentFME Form (floating license) License server managed via LMTOOLS (FlexNet)IssueLMTOOLS shows:Feature usage info: Users of FME:  (Total of 3 licenses issued;  Total of 0 licenses in use)Users of FME_GUI:  (Total of 3 licenses issued;  Total of 0 licenses in use) FME License Assistant shows: 3 total seats 1 license in use 2 licenses available What I’ve already triedRestarted the license server via LMTOOLS (Stop/Start) Confirmed via Server Status Enquiry that no users are consuming licenses Closed all FME applications Ensured no FME processes are running on client machines Despite the server reporting zero usage, the License Assistant still shows one license in use, which suggests a possible:Client-side cache issue Stale session Delay in license usage synchronizationQuestionsHas anyone encountered a mismatch like this between LMTOOLS and FME License Assi

Is there any other alternative OCR software OR workaround of TESSERACT.exe which is not allowed by my IT Department for security reason.  So if there is any alternative OCR s/w that is recommended, please let me know. Note from IT Security Team:All software, including freeware, must:• Come from a reputable source/supplier• Be supported by the supplier with vulnerability updates• Be fully licensed for enterprise use and not limited to individual use

Hi everyone,I have a JSON file that represents a line geometry containing 5 vertices (points). I would like to create a separate feature (record) for each vertex so that I can then generate vertices and rebuild the line geometry from them.I tried using the ListExplorer to extract the X and Y coordinates as attributes. However, the issue is that X and Y are only extracted for a single feature, and the other vertices are not created as separate records.Could you please take a look at the attached image for better understanding of my workflow?Any suggestions on how to correctly create a feature for each vertex would be greatly appreciated.Thank you

I have a database of spatial information (points, lines and areas), this database needs to become all points, the issue is that there is a big overlap in data. What I am trying to do, is see if any lines are already matched by Project nr and location (can be not exactly the same location) to existing points. If this is the case, then I want to copy missing information to the points and disregard the line after. For the other lines I will turn them into points after. The issue is that I tried to match them using a NeighborFinder, when using the lines as base and points as candidate, I was unable to extract the points after with the missing info filled in. However when I used them with points as base and lines as candidates, I had a lot more lines left over. With a manual loop this amount decreased, so I am trying to do a loop transformer. As this is the first time I am unsure of where I am going wrong. I added a counter to see how many features are left and the tester is than to compare

I am not able to understand where and why the Output FILESIZE is NOT the SAME as Input file ? Any idea or suggestion is helpful  INPUT FILESIZEOUTPUT FILESIZE 

Hi there, I am new to FME, and would appreciate any help or resource that teaches how to use “fme form data inspector” to debug error in the workspace?Thanks in advance 

On Friday (today is Monday), I submitted a post in Transformers about not being able to read an Excel file in FME Form 2026.1. After I submitted the post, an alert said that my post will be moderated then posted. I realized that I had accidentally clicked on “Poll” while adding a tag, but didn’t configure a Poll. I unclicked Poll. This morning, I don’t see my post. Do I need to re-submit my post or should I wait longer for moderation? Thanks. 

I have been using FME 2025.1 to update a table that has 1.7M records and 12 fields in ArcGIS Enterprise (AGE) for the last year and we are getting ready to move the webmap to ArcGIS Online (AGOL) later this year.  The issue that I am having is that it is taking more than double the amount of time to update the table in AGOL.  I’ve read the FME community comments and the Esri forums but haven’t been able to find an alternate solution that can improve the update speed.My typical process has processing/enriching in FME and then the feature writer to truncate and insert into the feature layer in AGOL.  The hosted feature layer also has a “View” as that is the portion that we would eventually show to the public.  The update is run weekly and is automated in AGE using FME Flow, which is also the goal for AGOL.  I am not a python wizard.  Does anyone have any suggestions or has anyone experienced the same issue and found the solution? Thanks,Peter

I would like to read what i am seeing below :PDF file with text in RED (image) on top of text In the above image under the RED text / numbers is BLACK text /numbers (i do not want the PDF READER to read this but rest in BLACK visible in above is okie) e.g. When i read PDF it reads T64 but i want to read T100 + other text/numbers visible in above image OR I want to read U 22700 mm and NOT U 22000 mm OR I want to read U 22950 mm and NOT U 22200 mm PDF file with text behind the RED (image) text  This is how my PDF READER pdf READER 

 I am on new task to convert PDF (Image data table) to Excel. Any help/ tips would be appreciated.  

I am facing issue when reading Google Sheets v4 in FME, below error occurred. Help you know how it gets rid of it.DEBUG: urllib3.connectionpool Retrying (Retry(total=9, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1006)'))': 

Hello FME Community,When using the Navisworks Reader, I encounter a constant issue when trying to preserve the element GUID as a feature attribute. The GUID attribute is exposed by the reader, but some values return a string of zeros (e.g., 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000) even though those same elements display a valid GUID in Navisworks. This seems to occur for elements originating from certain authoring tools, such as Tekla. The GUID is a 128-bit unique identifier assigned to every element in a Navisworks model. This value serves for element traceability.Is there a workaround for correctly extracting this value?   

Hi,Does anyone else have any trouble accessing Safe webinars these days? They are usually in the middle of the night for me, so I used to watch any relevant ones after a video becomes available. They a good professional development hours.I always used to be able to watch them on demand. However, I haven’t seen a video in 6 months. I seem to be only have the option of attending live. Does anyone know what’s going on? Does Safe not provide on demand videos anymore?I did send a support request a few weeks ago but I have not had a response.Thanks