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I'm using FME Desktop 2013.  I'd like to know if there is a way to filter/separate out "shapes" and "cells" that are on the same level in the dgn file.  Thank you

What is the best approach for creating an FME workspace that will accept a layer name as a parameter, then export to any data format.  The layers will be coming from SDE, however, depending on the layer name, may have additional FME transformers, etc.  Is there a way to conditionally evaluate a layername parameter, then branch off the workspace execution?  For the output, I assume the generic writer is my best bet?  Thanks in advance,  M

I am having trouble converting shape files into MapInfo and changing the projection from UTM to Long/Lat.  I have tried using FME, MapInfo Universal Translator, MapInfo Create Points.  I even tried creating long/lat fields in a table and then trying to Create Points.  But in all cases the files come up UTM in MapInfo not long lat even though the MapInfo default is Long/Lat.  Anyone with experience with FME and MapInfo that can help  kdmur

Before i dive into this can someone please advise me if this is possible with the data interoperability extension? Thanks in Advance.  http://fmepedia.safe.com/articles/Samples_and_Demos/Creating-Geodatabases-based-on-existing-geodatabases

I am going from DWG to FGDB and have my complete modle working correctly but can not get ANY autocad_ attributes to pull into the DB. All attributes that are in the blocks and ones i create are fine. Any sugestions or toggle I have to flip? Thanks

Hello,  I am trying to solve a problem for my company.  We have built our own land base datasets for the state of Pennsylvania. We are trying to figure out how to create this data as a basemap to be used on Google Maps map control.  Is this possible?  If so, is the FME Desktop enough, or is FME server required? Right now, we only have FME Desktop.  Further, how would you go about starting this type of project?  Any help is appreciated to get started. I did not have much luck with searching the forums thus far.  Thanks, Nick

Hello Dears.  I am working on a migration of Smallworld 3.3 to 4.3, however I getting the error below:   |ERROR |BADNEWS: No MULTI_WRITER dataset name was specified (couldn't find a value for `MULTI_WRITER_DATASET') (writrimp.cpp:572) | 1.0| 0.1|ERROR |BADNEWS: This FME edition does not recognize the `SWORLDSWAF' writer. Please ensure that the current platform supports this writer, the writer name is spelled correctly, and that you have installed all required plug-ins (creator2.cpp:745) | 1.0| 0.0|INFORM|Trying to find a BUILTIN plugin for writer named `SWORLDSWAF' | 1.0| 0.0|ERROR |BADNEWS: BUILTIN writer not found -- no Writer named `SWORLDSWAF' is available in this FME version (creator2.cpp:795)    I guess that the problem is on the field sworld_geometry{0}.sworld_name that receives exi_location as value.    But what intrigues me is that the error only occurs when I try to record geometry data.  (Writing tabular there is no error). The geometry is Simple  

Hello,  I have an SDE dataset containing about 90 records which is updated weekly with new records coming in and old ones moving on. The task is to select a record that has recently come in, and feed it through a series of geoprocessing processes.  I would like to set up in Published Parameters the option to select the record within FME, before starting the process. I have tried to do this through SEARCH FEATURE, but despite the list of records being displayed, and the selection taking place the process ends up with the error  'Must specify an even number of coordinates for 'SEARCH_FEATURE' Program Terminating'   Can this be done?  Also if it can be done, will FME be able to change the records for selection according to the change in the dataset. ?  regards  John

I'm trying to read into workbench the most current PPI (Producers Price Index) value to run some caclulations on in workbench  http://www.stats.govt.nz/infoshare/SelectVariables.aspx?pxID=5913e23c-ff12-41d7-b9a6-edab6da497e5  Has anyone had any success with this kind of thing?  Cheers  Sam

Morning,    I have been happily using FME to translate out raw MasterMap GML files into DWG files for our architects. The fan-out by Attribute has been an invaluable tool.    However, they have now asked if I can get the lines coloured in for them... I have tried everything i can think of but cannot seem to do it.     Ill try to explain further... one of the readers is TopograhpicLine. When fanned out by Descriptivegroup our Architects can switch on and off buildings, a road, general features etc. It is these fanned out features they want different colours so for example buildings red, woodland green.    Any assistance in this would be much appreciated! Ben

Hi guys!  How do I use the Smallword 4 Reader and Writer with Smallworld 4.1? (I need a step-by-step tutorial)  If I need to use Magik codes, post here, please.  Thanks!!!

Hi! Im working on a PDF cartographic output application running on FME server.  Recnetly I encountered the workspace is not flawless as it used to be. It seems around 1/3 of all executions will result in error similar to:  PNG reader: Failed to open the dataset 'C:\\Users\\SAFME2~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\ImageFetcher_21378914917511_5860'. Please ensure source data is valid and correct reader is selected  This is a Imagefetcher. Used to get a WMS - PNG-image. Error is at 1.8 seconds, so it cant be a timeout. Pasting the WMS URL in browser works fine. Using the same imagefetchers and URL in other .fmw-files  on the server works fine. Downloading and running the workspace on desktop with same identical settings as on the crash works fine.  Im out of ideas. Should I clean the server up somehow? Any input most welcome. Thank you!       

Hello,  Apologies for the long winded subject.  Is it possible using a transformer to set <Snippet maxLines="2"></Snippet> just under the <Document> tag?  If I use AttributeSetter and set kml_snippet to maxLines="0" but in the resultant kml file I end up with <snippet>maxLines="0"</snippet> instead of what I want as <snippet maxlines = "0"> </snippet>  I am using  FME 2012 SP 2  Cheers, 

in a log file i get this message: all channels have been allocated ....Last line repated 3 times....

I have an Esri shape file. I transferred it to a citygml file as a Land use object. I have one more field in my shape file as a coefficient for type of land use and I wanna have it as Generic Attribute in Land use object. How can I do that? I can also have it as GenericCityObject.  I appreciate your advice in advance.

Was wondering if anybody has split text from a .csv column into to seperate columns?  I have a column named "Coordinates" with x,y data with the word POINTZ before the coordinate.  Example: POINT Z (-113.807295690 52.269077310 842.30)  I would like to put just the values in seperate columns (X & Y) containing no text.....  Once I have the x,y in seperate columns i'm assuming its easy to convert the .csv to a .shp  Any thoughts

Hi,   In a workspace, I will regularly update a source that is available as a zipped shape file from a secured ftp site with a username and password.    So I’m using the shape reader, and using a path like(ftp://<3.ftp/*_*.zip) in the FME shape file reader location, but FME returned the following error when running the workspace   ERROR |Shape Reader: No Shape Files found to process in directory,…   Obviously, I need to pass my logging credentials to download and read the zip file, so how can I pass the username and password in this case?  Sami

Does FME Desktop 2013 sp1 (20130325 - Build 13450 - Win64) support ArcGIS 10.2?  Thanks Jim Q

Hi, i'm new in the world of FME and trying to learn the working of it. Mostly by using the help function, this website en offcourse Google. But some problems seems to be a bit difficult ;)  What i try to do is comparing 600+ ecw files to 1 ecw file that i can use, by importing, in another program. I have been trying different ways to get the job done but still didnt find a way to make this happen.  I hope to find some help on this site.  Thx J-P  

Has anybody had the issue where you add a shapefile (with a set projection, including a .prj file) as the reader and when writing this shapefile to an SQL database it does not bring the Coordinate system over with it?   Example:  Load a shapefile into a GeoMedia SQL database. For the Parameter Coord. System: you leave as the default "Read from source"   This runs successful but when you go into GeoMedia --> Warehouse -->Feature Class Definition and review the Coordinate System, it is empty? Indicating that FME did not actually Read the Source Coordinate System and in return your feature class is left with no associated Projection?  Does FME require a specific Projection file for it to "Read from Source" ? because regular .prj files it does not seem to reconginze.     

Hi at all after successufll (tank to Itay and Takashi) managed the spatial conversion of xml to  shape/kml/postgis  I need other suggestions on how manage In essence, I would bring in the db (both ESRI geodatabse or postgis) a large part of the fields in the XML linking to their spatial compontent . How can I manage it in a few steps (I have a thousand of xml with same schema)?   TIA best regards fz

I'm traying to export a numbor of polygon shapes into an CytiGML model. The shapes contain the roofs, walls, and ground of the buildings I've noticed that because of the way the polygon vertices are placed arownd the contour,(clockwise or counterclockwise) the faces that are created in cityGML are visible as front faces for counter-clockwise orientetion of the vertices and back faces for clock orientation. I've tried to filter the shape using orientation extractor and attribute filter but i don't get any result. What is the conection between the orientation and the vertex placement, if is there any? Has anybody encountered this problem before? The simplest way is to change the direction of the vertices in arcmap but i don't know if it is posible?Open for suggestion. Please help!

Hi Guys,  I'm using FME Desktop 2013 connected to Smallworld databases.  I need to convert geometry fields from my "reader" to geometry fields to my "writer", I'm adding the feature type together with the "reader" creation but the geometry fields aren't appearing, If I create my "writer" and after I import the feature type for the same table as a "writer", the geometry fields appear normally.  Do I need to use any transformer for this? I tried to use GeometryFilter but I can't to see the geometry fields.  Anybody help me?  thanks, Allex

Hi all, I'm trying to set up a validate and load workbenches which will be run through FME Server.  I want to use the Generic Reader so that user can load data of any format onto our system.  I know that file geodatabases will be one of the main formats being loaded but I can't get get the Generic Reader to recognize the database when testing. When I 'Prompt and Run', I forces me to point to a specific file as the input and predicts the format type from that file.  This works in case of a shapefile but not for file geodatabase files.  In the documentation is says it will recognize a File, Directory, URL, or Database name. Any thoughts on how I can fix this?  Thanks  rkay

I have managed to create new features and put them on a DYNAMIC SDE30 writer that inserts the features, deletes the features and updates features correctly by using fme_db_operation = UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE and on the WRITER Writer mode: UPDATE.  However when I try to do the same with an ESRI GEODATABASE_SDE it logs that the features are written - however there is nothing in the database (also not in any other features or tables on the same server). Doesn`t the ESRI GEODATABASE_SDE writer handle the fme_db_operation parameter the same way as the SDE30 writer?  Any other tricks to be aware of when working with writing to ArcSDE?