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Help reading attributes from multiple dwg. files

  • 17 April 2024
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raaijenniels
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Hi there,

I am fairly new to FME. I have around 6000 dwg. files regarding the same industrial drawings and the data is roughly found in the same place in each file. I would like to know how i can extract the attributes that i need out of these files.

I have started using a wildcard function to read multiple files. I know this question is fairly vague, still I was wondering if anyone has the time to help me with this, or knows any recomendations for explanation (youtube or similair examples/workspaces) 

Like I said, FME is still pretty new to me so any advice would help. Thank you

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nielsgerrits
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How I do this:

  • Creator to initiate process
  • FeatureReader (Directory and File Pathnames) to scan for files. Now every file is one feature.

From here, it depends what you need on what you want to do. You can use the attribute with the filepath to read every file using another FeatureReader, but as you have this much files I think that will not work well. You might want to create a custom transformer to process each file one by one. Or do something similair using a workspacerunner and a second workspace.

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