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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?

Hi,  I'm having trouble reading from, and writing to, the same ESRI gdb. I'm just doing a simple transformation and have tried on a few different gdb's but get the same problem - it just hangs part way through the process. I'm assuming it is possible to read and write to the same gdb. I've made sure all ESRI products are closed to prevent any locking, but to no avail.  Any help appreciated.  Cheers Toby  

Hi,  We've stumbled across what seems to be a bug (or perhaps a design decision that we haven't understood!) in the shapefile reader and writer.  The DBF format defines the type of a field in its header, but there is nothing physically preventing a field that is numeric from having text data stored in it (because internally, numbers are stored as text in the DBF format). Hence, it is up to any implementation of the DBF format to make sure that the correct types of values are written to a field, and to behave sensibly if the wrong types are read from the field.  FME doesn't seem to do this. We translated some data to shapefiles. The data have a column entitled "Number" which contains road numbers. We set up the shapefile writer to store this data in a numeric field, without properly inspecting all the data. However it turns out that the data actually occasionally contain text values, such as "A3030" (reasonably enough because that's how British roads

Hi everyone,  I have photos store in a Microsoft SQL Spatial Database which I am trying to extract out on our job drive (i.e. a normal network drive).  I've had a search of previous responses and it seems that the AttributeFileWriter is the relevant transformer, however I can't get it to work!  The photo is stored in an Attribute field called P_Picture.  I added the relevant reader and connected the AttributeFileWriter with the following parameters:  Source: P_Picture Target Filename: P_Picture If Target Exists: Overwrite File Target File Character Encoding: System Default (fme-system)  When I run it, I get an error: "AttributeFileWriter: This FME edition does not recognise the 'o' function.  Please ensure that the current platform supports this function, the function name is spelled correctly, and that you have installed all the required plugins"  I'm am running: Win 7, 64-bit, FME 32-bit, SP4 ESRI Edition (should be able to read db format in)  Any pointe

We recently switched from HP plotters to EPSON plotters, and have had multiple issues with these over the last couple of months. Strangely, our floating licenses are able to print to these plotters without issue, our single use license user is having some problems. When he prints to these new Epson plotters, his print format have numerous errors.   Some bubbles are larger, some smaller, some colors are off, some pieces are missing. The text appears to be untouched, but any bubble surrounding the text is skewwed, missing, or someplace else on the page.   It is almost as if his license has a special driver or print filter that is doing this.  Suggestions?

Hi all,  In GDAL it's easy to stretch a raster image with a colorramp that can look for example like this: 0 255 255 255 5 225 225 225 10 205 205 205 15 190 190 190 20 178 178 178 25 166 166 166 30 154 154 154 35 142 142 142 40 130 130 130 90 0 0 0 This ramp stretches for example every pixel with a value between 0 and 5 to an rgb value between 255 and 225. What is the smartest way to do the same thing in FME Workbench? I thought about using the RasterExpressionEvaluator but it seems to me like the expression needs to be quite complicated. Is there a better way of doing it?

Is there any way to easily switch Oracle Spatial reader to read from another similar (ie. replica) table - than to rewrite to whole reader part ? This would ease my job a lot as I have several FME wb's with input data filtering (to reduce memory usage) from the same source data.  Rgrds, Esko

When trying to WRITE with the Esri Geodatabase (File Geodatabase API) to an existing file I get the following error:  Geodatabase Error (-2147024891): Access denied. FileGDB Writer: A feature could not be written.  Some issues:  1. The workspace does not FAIL, but completes.Even though the writer gives this error. There is no option on this writer to IGNORE FAILED WRITES: NO 2. Why is access denied? I have created a completely new FileGDB from within FME and I am trying to update this. 

Hi, I am exporting a semi large dataset from FME workbench (2013 SP2) through a writer as xlsx format.  Excel is saying "Excel found unreadable content in 'Export.xlsx'. Do you want to recover etc". I say yes, but when I do try to recover, excel only recovers a small amount of the data.  I also get the following error in excel.  Errors were detected in file 'Export.xlsx': Removed Part: /xl/sharedStrings.xml part with XML error.  (Strings) Illegal xml character. Line 1, column 55442. Removed Records: Cell information from /xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml part  Inspector with FME shows all the expected data. I can reload the file back into FME and all the expected data is there.  Why is the data not exporting correctly? Any ideas? 

Can FME Desktop accesses ArcGIS server map service as a reader?

Dear community members I'm facing a problem with fme desktop. I have many xyz files and they must be imported into a single postgis table. They are all equal, x,y,z column. I must query each file so the first/last row/column will be discarded due to artifacts. Then the result for each file must be appended to a table. Right now I used a csv reader with an InlineQuerier and a 3DPointReplacer in sequence and for a single file it works with a query set in the inline querier  If I add more than a single xyz file to the reader only the first/last row/column of the whole set of points are removed..  So how can I make fme to process the query on each single file efore it is added to the output? Thanks Pietro

Hi,  I have Las file in that I need to map 3d buildings.Is there any procedure generate in FME.  Please guide.  

I am trying to filter SDE database with spatial filter and it is not working. It works fine with a clipper, but I am not wanting to clip the data. I used this before with an FDO connection and it worked fine.  Thanks, Chad

Hi,  I am working on an XP machine with 2Gb RAM. I am trying to run some tools and everytime, the output shows the following details. What can be done regarding it.   "DBF Writer: DBF file exceeds maximum size of 2 GB Unable to output data to file 'D:\\SixMonths\\FME\\New Folder\\SQL\\New Folder\\NewFeatureType.dbf' ... Last line repeated 2 times ... DBF Writer: DBF file exceeds maximum size of 2 GB."

Hi,  I have the foollowing error message when uploading a workspace on FME CLoud:  Uploading as 'test.fmw'... Publish failed - FME Server encountered an error and reported the following message. <error><name>filename</name><message>The 'filename' matrix parameter is required</message></error> Request to http://geopol.inser-team.fmecloud.com/fmerest/v2/repositories/Samples/items returned status code 400.  Error 400 means wrong filname extention. What's wrong in uploading a .fmw? I am experiencing this whatever workspace I upload. (FME 2014 Build 14230) I can upload on this FME Cloud instance with FME 2013 without problem.  Thanks for your help.  JP.

Hi Community,  I got 3D-features, which are in their local coordinate system at the right position. But when I translate them to KML to watch in Google Earth they hang several meters above ground. I know there is a difference between Swiss height and WGS84 height.  Is it possible to bring the 3D-features to the ground?  Thanks in advance, GPT-Executer (Maria) 

I have a Oracle database that store ArcSDE data.  I read mapinfo data with FME (MAPINFO reader)  And I write the data with FME (SDE30 writer)  I use : FME(R) 2012 SP4 (20120926 - Build 12266 - WIN32)  It's the same problem on server or desktop.  My problem is about an attribut.  It's a unique ID (ID_ORIGINE) that goes like this :    Mapinfo value : 7271203048662889  FME (logger) value :  Attribute(string)  : `ID_ORIGINE' has value `7271203048662889'  It's the same.  But when I open my ArcSDE table with ArcMap or visualize the data from within Oracle with SQL Developper I have this : 7271203048662890  The end of the number is rounded (2890 instead of 2889).  But I didn't ask for this.    My data structure :  Oracle : Number  SDE : Double (precision 38 and scale 10)  so it should go well cause If I insert it manually it's OK.  But when FME write it down : the value is rounded.  Is it FME that round the value while writing it down or Oracle or SDE that do the

Hi - I'm having some problems with translating the OS VectorMap Dataset - I know there's a reader for each of the OS Vector products - and I've cross posted on another thread (Issues Reading in GML) BUT what I need explaining to me are the different approaches that seem to have been adopted by each of the vector products, and the GML, and their Readers in FME.  I've had no problem at all in translating OS MasterMap, I've created quite a nice workspace to translate and style the data into MapInfo; nor have I any problems with the VectorMap Local. But why does VectorMap District require to have an xsd called by a URI, and then store feature types in an SQLLite db (?)  and so on... If anyone can enlighten me on the different approaches that seem to have been undertaken, then I would be very grateful !

I'm currently trying to read in some GML (as a first step to doing some more complex transformations on it), and I'm having some issues with reading it in, different depending on which method I've attempted to use.  The file i'm trying to read in is an OSVectorMap District gml First method:  Using the normal GML reader, I'm attempthing to read the file in, and pull the .xsd file from the Ordnance survey's website and I'm the error below. I know that I don't need proxy settings as I've used this method to read in OSVectorMap Local files in the past HTTP transfer error: 'Failure when receiving data from the peer' Please ensure that your network connection is properly set up No proxy settings have been entered. If you require a proxy to access external URLs, please ensure the appropriate information has been entered Second Method:   The second method I’ve tried was to download the OSVectorMap District .xsd file, and alter the xml to reference it