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Hello again,  anyone know a quick solution for displaying an Autodesk 3DS-model of a tree for each point in an ESRI-point-shape? I will eventually merge it with a DEM an Orthophoto and 3D-buildings and write a 3d-PDF.  Thanks for your considerations Patrick

I have a set of microsation v8 files.  The files have a coordinate system attached to them.  When I use FME to read in and output file to a different format (such as shape files), the readouts now show that everything has been shrunk to within fractions of a seconds of the origins of the file, instead of being in their true geographic location.  Is there anyway to get FME to correctly read the coordinates so my output data is in the correct location?

I have a set of roads, where I have made the areas for road cover, and coded it with road-spesific metadata.  So far so good - I can deal with manipulation.  But I cannot properly write it without getting a metric ton of duplicate lines.  I have run the data trough a topologybuilder before exportting, but to no avail.   I used a different SOSI writer before (and guess I am forced to learn some of this stuff all over again) but want to cut some corners by asking: Does anyone have experience in writing to a SOSI-file that include polygons/areas?

I'm trying to import some MicroStation DGN data into an SDE Geodatabase (Oracle).    My workflow is built specifically to preserve curved geometries, and when I write to a File Geodatabase, these are intact. However when I write to an SDE Geodatabse these are stroked into straight line segments.    Looking at the logs I get the following warnings: WARN  |Required columns 'GLOBAL_ID, OBJECTID, ' not specified for predefined table 'GISOWNER.TEST'.  Using Definition from Database  WARN  |DEF line for the table 'GISOWNER.TEST' not fully specified. As a result, existing table definitions will be used  WARN  |Existing SDE table 'GISOWNER.TEST' allows the following shapes: SDE_NIL SDE_LINE SDE_SIMPLE_LINE SDE_MULTIPART . Shapes specified in mapping file for table allows: . Defined shape types don't match.  WARN  |Spatial column name for existing table 'GISOWNER.TEST' is 'SHAPE'

hello everyone    I don't have good experience with FME,  but i need to use it in my Master thesis project.    The thing is i am developing an iPad App, one of the most important parts in this App is to send the GPS latitude, longitude to the GIS server (via FME) then get the GIS data related to that GPS location in a Wavefront obj file (in 3D) (ALSO  via  FME).   So could you please provide me with any pointers to start. Any tutorials that explain this communication. I am using Objective c as the main programming language and also java for the servers.     Many thanx for the help    Cheers  Saif ALSAIFI

Another question from me.  I know that FME is capable of setting no data on geotiffs when making a conversion from polygon to raster. Setting a background value with the ImageRasterizer and then filling it with Nodata. Interpreting this image in ArcGIS, the Nodata actually means no data and can be excluded from calculations.   I want to do the same process process manually without the conversion from a polygon. So GeoTiff --> GeoTiff.  The RasterBandNodataSetter doesn't seem to actually work for me what should I fill in for "Nodata Value" when for instance I want all the 255,255,255 values to be regarded as NoData? To what attribute should it be linked? Any alternatives? I prefer not to make a conversion to shape first, if possible.   FME desktop 2012

Hi, I created CityGML files with FME, which works quiet good. I now modelled the CityGML-ReliefFeature, but I'm not able to add the attribute <lod>. What I did: 1) I added a CityGML writer 2) I imported the CityGML feature type ReliefFeature 3) I checked all the available attributes (user and format) but no "lod" available. 4) I added my own user attribute lod (I tried different types, I suppose this should be xml_int16, but I also tried others...) 5) I gave it a constant value "2" the translation is succesfull, I see all the features, feature types, ... I want to see, but no attribute "lod" for the ReliefFeature :(  afterwards, I added manually the tags to my CityGML file <dem:lod>2</dem:lod>. but offcourse, I want FME to do this for me :)  hope someone can help me out! with kind regards, Ine De Cubber

'The domain '####' specified on the DEF line already exists in the geodatabase workspace, but with a different definition. The definition of the existing domain will be used'  So what exactly does this mean? Where can I see the DEF line? Anyone else see this?  -Sean

Afternoon All, i have a ESRI file gdb with 20 featureclasses within it. i want to change the value -99 to Blank within all the attributes and all the tables. LIke a global value mapper. Is there any simple solution im missing ?  Thanks Steve

Hi,  I'm experiencing an issue when attmepting to update an ArcSDE single merged feature type reader to pick up a new attribute added to one of the input tables. When right clicking on the reader and using the "Update..." option, FME will only pickup the attributes from the first feature class in the Table List, and ignore the attributes on the other 19 feature classes.  Is there a way to update the reader without having to remove it completely and add it again?  

Looking for optimal way to compute moving average on an attribute, based on a definable amount of freq of features.  Any ideas on how to do this without writing a script?

Hi, my problem is that simple dgn->imageraterizer->geotiff is very slow .picture is big 10kmx10km with 0.13cell size (0.13995 m/pxl?)  82500x85000 pixels. Is there any way to get it faster than 3days and counting? My target is to get 0.13399 m/pxl tiff out from it

Hi,  I have a FME Server 2012 installed on a virtual machine. When accessing the user and admin interface from my machine everything is ok. When accessing the user and admin interface directly on the VM these are just partially visible/usable, eg: - User interface: I can browse to a file and select it, but the "upload files" button stays grey and not usable. - Admin interface: I can only see the info in the admin home tab. All other tabs are there but clicking them shows nothing, only the page header (tabs, FME logo,...)  Any ideas on this? I would think it is about VM settings somewhere but I have no clue where to start looking...  thx, Rob

Hi,  I ahve a query regarding writing out coordinates to a csv file. Been pulling my hair out trying to sort it for the last while but can't figure it out. I reckon i'm either missing something stupidly small or it just can't be done!  Basically my simple workspace is reading in a .tab file, using the CoordinateConcantenator to retrieve each feature's coordinates and then using an AttributeSplitter to split the coordinate values into sperate list attributes.  When I write it to a csv file the first Row contains the attributes of the first feature, second row containing the attributes of the second feature and so on...  What I want to do it have the first Column of the csv containing the first feature, second column containing the attributes of the second feature etc, so basically flipping the layout of the csv file.  Any suggestions greatly appreciated!  Cheers, TK

Hi just wondering if you can write shapefiles with mixed case fieldnames? I understand the issue probably lies with the underlying DBF structure, but the shapefile reader acknowledges the case just not the shapefile writer. Am I missing something or is there a way to stop all fieldnames being UPPERCASE?

Hello,  I have generated a workspace that does a simple read of an AutoCAD .DWG file and then writes it out in the Adobe Geospatial PDF format.  My workspace finishes successfully for the one .DWG file that I supply to it while testing within FME Workbench.  My problem is that when I upload a different .DWG file (with different schema) the workspace no longer can finish successfully.  I have to make this work because I will have .DWG files being uploaded to my server from any number of end users who could have created their .DWG files differently.  Can anyone give me some pointers to allow my request to work properly?  I appreciate any support.  When I find out how to resolve the answer, I will post here for anyone else who may have this problem down the road.  Thanks in advance!

I have a workspace that reads an Oracle database table and creates an xml document.  I would like to create one xml document per row in the table and name that xml document based on the value of an attribute.  I was able to accomplish this by using a parameter and referencing the parameter in the reader "sql where clause" and in the textline writer dataset name.  But this approach requires me to execute the transform externally for each row in the database.  Sorry for the remedial questions - I know I am just missing some basics...  Thank you in advance.  SS

Hi -  I am trying to determine if there's a way to expose face attributes when working with openflight files in FME.  I would like to somehow create a list of SMC, Feature IDs, and texture names.   Thanks in advance! : )

Hi    I am looking for a complete list with descriptions of all the element types available in a microstation dgn file please.    I have read the FME Readers and Writers 2012 documentation for dgn files and there are element categories with some element type values (IGDS Element Type) on page 404 but I am looking for a complete list with a basic description for each value.    For instance type 33 is a dimension that is not included in the list on page 404 but is described on page 459, and type 53 is also a type of dimension but there is no description as to what subtype of dimension it is.    Is a complete list for both V7 and V8 dgn files available somewhere ?  Thanks

Is there any documentation on how to use the Advanced Text Editor within FME?  I want to find all attribute names that contain the source table name in a tabular (CSV)translation. Because I end up with several million features per input table I don't want to use substring on the fme_basename attribute - I want to extract the source table name from the Source parameter once per source table.  There might be a substring operation in Advanced Text Editor, who knows?  Thanks, Ian

Hi all,  any experiences in terms of how much of the time we could save when running Workspace using SSD for temporary files storage instead of regular disk. Particularly, it would be interesting for following model situation: FME 2012 64bit Desktop, WS ran 20 hours and stored 250GB of temp files on regular disk (but separate one).  Thanks, Jiri

We are exploring the possibility of using FME server in our workflow.  We are currently running FME Desktop.  One of our primary data inputs is in VPF data structure.  With Desktop, we simply choose the entire directory when starting a project.  However, I'm not sure how this would be accomplished with Server.  It seems a specific file needs to be uploaded to server, rather than a set of directories and sub-directories such as VPF data.  Has anybody ran into this before?

I'm trying to generate an unique ecw file, which contain at different scales, different information. For example: - at 1:100.000 a map - at 1:50.000 an satellite image - at 1:10.000 aerial photography  Know anyone how to do it or if it's possible with ecw format? Thank's.

Hi,  I have a workspace that read a personal geodatabase (pgdb) and updates it. That is, it creates no new pgdb, but instead updates the existing one.  How can I solve this in FME Server? The co-workers at my office will use it, but they have no access to the server. Datadownload service normally does it, but in this case it creates a new pgdb, and I don´t want that.  I have read this article (http://fmepedia.safe.com/articles/How_To/Data-Download-Service-Writing-to-a-template-ESRI-File-Based-Geodatabase), but it does'nt help me since the pgdb comes in different names and shapes.  Any ideas?  Regards Hans

Afternoon All,   I have a ESRI file GDB with domains set on a wide range of attributes. Somehow there are attribute values in FGDB that dont conform to the domain list. (possibly entered before the domains were registered).  I want to "Validate" that the values in all attributes conform to the domain values.   I know there is the "Validate Features" options in the FGDB writer/advanced tab but this terminates the workbench on the first records it finds that does not validate. I want a list of ones that dont "Validate"  How do i construct a table or list of values, records that are not in the domain list. ( i have many attribute fields and many records and many tables).   Thanks for your suggestions  Steve