AutoCAD Extended Entity Data not writing out correctly. | Community

I am reading two AutoCAD files and sending them through a ChangeDetector to identify the differences between files. For my updated features, I am trying to write out the attributes to my blocks to displayy the following attributes as extended entity data:

Id, Update_1,Update_2, Update_3 (all the way through Update_10)

Writer Feature Type Showing all the attributes.

However, when I open the drawing, the Extended Entity Data is being written as such:

Block Extended Entity Data is repeated, missed, and “garbled”.

Can someone give me some advice as to why this may be happening?

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What does the data look like in the data inspector there and what version of FME are you working with?

certainly looks pretty strange

@virtualcitymatt I’ll attach a few screenshots.

Here you can see the 2 items in question that have attributes. Update 4-10 are supposed to be “missing” or nulls. These items had 3 of 10 potential changes. So 4-10 were empty.

Here you can see the first page of my writer feature type. The Layer_Name attribute has what the level is supposed to be named in it. In this case the Layer_Name is “CHANGE Update”.

Here you can see the attributes as they should appear.

Here is a refresh from the initial post of how they end up being written.

Here is a screenshot of my Writer Parameters

Here is a screenshot of my reader parameters (1 of 2)

Here is the remainder of my reader parameters (2 of 2)

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