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I am wondering if it is possible to use FME and the DXF\\DWG writer to create an eningeering profile that has all the required labels, title block and annotation given an input DXF file? I've done some research and tried to create some work benchs after obtaining a template file that have yielded some limited results. Basically what I am wondering is it possible to go from this:    To this:    

Hi,  I need to read a SVG file but in FME, SVG  writer is present but no reader. Is there a way to read the SVG file. Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks

I have some polygon data (279719 records) in ESRI Geodatabase format. I want to load this data into PostGIS, and then view the data in a variety of GIS packages (ArcGIS, QGIS, web GIS) from the PostGIS database.  I know that the data has geometry problems because if I run the Geometry Checker tool in ArcGIS it reports 576 errors. This data displays fine in ArcMap from the Geodatabase despite the geometry errors (it also loads fine in QGIS).  So I load the data into PostGIS via a GeometryValidator in FME. I have experimented with a lot of the different combinations of Issues. For this testing phase, I load the data into 3 seperate PostGIS tables (passed, repaired and failed). I also load the data into an ESRI Geodatabase just to check if this loads correctly into ArcGIS.   The data in the Passed PostGIS table gives the following error when I open it in ArcMap:  "One or more layers failed to draw:  arc_test.basisdata_fkb.vann_f_fkb:  Linestring or poly boundary is self-intersecting&

Hi,  I'm new to FME so I hope I didn't miss a tutorial or a manual somewhere ;)  In a few words I'd like to export a CityGML to KML/Collada files in order to load these in GoogleEarth and other 3D clients. In details :  <= Input : A CityGML containing 300 buildings referencing textures. The general structure of my CityGML is :  <CityModel> <Building> <BuildingPart> <Appearance> <SurfaceDataMember>  ... </Appearance> <RoofSurface>  ...  <WallSurface>  ... </BuildingPart> </Building>  ... </CityModel>    => Output : Idealy I'd like to generate a collection of KMZ files containing KML + Collada + Textures. Each KMZ file would represent a portion (a tile) of the original CityGML file.    My question : Where to start ? :)    What I've already done :    1) I've been able to load my CityGML file in FME. A certain number of Feature Type were imported (Building, BuildingPart, WallSu

What's the best way to export a FGDB schema to Excel?  I want a sheet (tab) for each feature class with the attribute name, type, size, etc.  I've tried exporting the FGDB to XML and reading it in but am having trouble fannning out the feature classes to sheets correctly.  Is XML schema the way to do this?

Any one could know this problem?  It is fine for a polygon that consists of many polygons by using FME's GeometryValidator and inspector to view the polygon. However, when using FME to load it into SDO database, the following error occur, and no geometry inserted. ......... "An error occurred while converting feature information to an Oracle object in column `GEOMETRY' A fatal error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details This occurred while attempting to process the following feature: The following row was not written to Oracle table because of errors converting columns: GEOMETRY ......."

I have a workspace that I would like to share with others (who don't have FME) and was wondering whether it is possible to save / export the current workspace to an image file? I've managed this in a roundabout way but I had to print the workspace to a PDF, save the PDF out as an image and then crop it to size.  I then had the options to either distribute as an image or to re-PDF the cropped image. There must be an easier way I'm missing :)  

I am inserting records into an Oracle Spatial table with an existing spatial index. Does Oracle rebuild the spatial index automatically when I do this? If not, how would I rebuild the spatial index with FME?  Thanks

I am trying to expose user name in autocad and the date that I run FME workbench (todays Date).  Is there a way to do this?

Has anyone ever tried to read a Firebird database?  It's not in the list of supported formats, but I'm wondering if there's a way to still read it using something more generic?

Hi,  I'm trying to solve an issue in our office where users who have the "FME Extension for ArcGIS" installed on thier PCs are checking out FME licences every time they open a copy of ArcMap. (None of them are enabled) The licences are usually returned within a second or two, but occasionaly they get stuck, which causes us FME users issues as we only have 2 licences. (it also regularly interupts scheduled tasks and batch process).  A sample from the licence manager log file when I started ArcMap: 12:50:04 (safe) OUT: "FME" username@machinename  12:50:04 (safe) OUT: "esri" username@machinename  12:50:04 (safe) OUT: "national" username@machinename  12:50:04 (safe) IN: "national" username@machinename  12:50:04 (safe) OUT: "fmeobjects_reproject" username@machinename  12:50:04 (safe) IN: "fmeobjects_reproject" username@machinename  12:50:04 (safe) OUT: "basic_raster" username@machinename  12:50:04 (safe) IN:

Hello! I have parcels polygons into a databse and I want to determine what kind of geometric shape (square, triangle, rectangle, trapeze, other) each of those polygons have. i am using the circularitycalculator and after a use a testfilter to determine each shape by the shape value (square ~ 0.75, rectangle ~ 0.65, etc). Unfortunately, a lot of polygon have weird values, so my filter doesn't work well. Would you have a better idea? Thanks!!

Hello,  I've recently upgraded to FME Server 2014 but am having problems publishing or downloading workbenches using FME Workbench 2014. It works fine when I use FME Workbench 2013.  The problem is a permissions issue where it says:  Login failed (Not Authorized) - Ensure that username and password fields are correct, and that user has sufficient privileges.  I don't know what the issue is as even using administrator gives this error and like I said if I go back to FME Workbench 2013 it works fine with the same username.  Which logs would I need to look in to help with this?  Thanks,  Peter.

Hi community,  I have links (with token) here that give me the opportunity to have GTFS data into realtime. So I could have bus realtime position or alerts by exemple : https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs-realtime/  Would you know a method to read this data into FME?  My goal would be to read this data and update the last position into ArcGIS via FME. If you would know a way to use the GTFS-realtime into ArcGIS, I would be interested too. Honestly I don't know what to to with those links...  thank you

Hello,  How to copy the contents of a file (File_m.csv) into another file (File_n.txt). Such that it does not overwrite but only appends to File_n.txt.  File_m.csv             File_n.txt                                   output expected:    File_n.txt A B C D E F            3 5 6 2 7 7                                                                 A B C D E F M N O P Q R           8 7 5 0 1 3                                                                 M N O P Q R                                                                                                                       3 5 6 2 7 7                                                                                                                       8 7 5 0 1 3  Regards.

Converting ESRI shape file to coverage,  I applied the tool “feature class to coverage” available in the ArcGIS to convert shape file to coverage but I got the error below:         How can the shape file be converted in FME to Coverage? The result is expected to take the following format:    Thank you  Best  Jamal

Hi,  Can anyone help me devise a method using FME to collapse a series of text records with no associate geometry, assuming that 2 values are equal and 2 values are contiguous. I have included some example data below, data is arrange such that the Animal and Colour values must match the preceding row and the preceding End value must match the Start value.  I have a very nasty script for excel which may be possibly be adapted, but I would really like to do this with FME.  I have tried to do some of this within a loop but got a bit lost. Could it be down using transformers or a Python script which can be included in a bench? Ideally any method needs to be adaptable as I would like to use it for other data sets with differing field names and more or less matches required.   Animal, Text Colour, Text Start, Int End, Int  Input Data Format  Animal,Colour,Start,End Dog,Blue,0,1 Dog,Blue,1,5 Dog,Blue,5,10 Dog,Red,31,35 Dog,Red,35,56 Cat,Purple,101,102 Cat,Purple,103,106 Cat,Purple,106,111  Re

HI,  I'm using the pdf2D writer in FME Workbecnh 2011 to create a bunch of maps.  I'd like to use the fanout feature on my pdf writer, however when i add a pdf_type of pdf_text to the writer it crashes fme.exe when the writer starts to open I think.  If i remove this pdf_type, by stroking the text then i can write the pdf with fanout, however if i drop the fanout i can write the pdf with text!  I'm not sure it's a bug in the writer as such as I can create a much simpler workbench and write text.  The bits i've dropped im my simple workbench that work are adding multiple pages, altering the page size to A4 portrait and landscape.  I'll keep plodding though the workbench until i break my simple  workbench and hopefully incover the problem, however i thought i'd ask here in case anyone has suffered a similar issue when writing pdf's? (in 2011 - as my server instance is still 2011)  Nick

I have a layer of around 21m features and I want to group them geographically using a region layer which has around 10 regions. I have used the spatial relator which I think is working but it has been running now for 17 hours and has only processed 687,000.  Is there a better way of doing this with a process that does not take so much time to run given that I have a large number of features to process.

Hi,  I'm trying to convert a DGN file with text to a DGN file with text nodes. What do I have to do? Any help would be appreciated.

I've never worked with point data in FME before so bear with me.  I have a request to create a DEM or surface model of the highest vegetation returns.  The .LAS file is classified into Ground, Low Vegetation, Medium, Vegetation, and High Vegetation, etc.  My assumption is only use the High Vegetation values and get the max value and create a DEM.  Is this the best approach and if so, what transformers should I use? I've played around in FME but aren't really getting the results I'm hoping for.  Should I use the ExpressionEvaluator to get the max value of Z values?  If so, what's the syntax for this?  Any thoughts would be helpful and I can provide more clarification if needed.

i am trying to transform Oracle to Autocad.  I need to set some line to a user specifed color. the color is in RBG and not a autocad color index number.  How would I go about doing that? Can I substitude autocad_color with fme_color?

Hi everyone,  I've got two flow of data: _FA with attributes (a, b, c, d) and _FB with attribute (e)  I've got X (>1)  FA and only 1 FB.  And I would like a way to have X features like this: _FC (a, b, c, d, e)   How may I do that ?  I first tougth of FeatureMerger but I can't.  Any solution ?

Publish to FME Server: Workspace Name issue,  I couldn’t figure out why “Publish to FME Server” doesn’t take the name of my file as “Workspace Name” but instead it takes other name  My file name is: UrbanMasterPlan_CAD_To_GIS_03.fmw The name read by the FME (Workspace Name) is: T1_Published  From where the “T1_Published” is read considering that the name of my file is “UrbanMasterPlan_CAD_To_GIS_03.fmw” as shown in the screenshot below    What might be the issue here?   Thank you  Best  Jamal

I have an Excel report template in which I need to update specific row/column fields and they are not in consecutive order. In other words, I want to update Row1,Column3 and then Row10,Column8, etc.... Is there a way to dynamically set the Start Column and Start Row parameters within the Writer Format Parameters? I tried, with no success, creating Row and Column attributes and then setting the parameters within the writer as @Value(Row) and @Value(Column). Or is there a better way to do this when using a template for a Writer?