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I have several MicroStation V7 Files of contours and I would like to convert them to ESRI shape files. In the DGN files are lines, linestrings, polygons and text. I want to convert only the lines, linestrings and polygons that are on certain levels. Has anyone got a good solution?  Dennis

Hi, I have a reader and writer to load and re-project a shapefile into MS SQL Spatial 2008 R2.  All good.  Now I want to run an existing stored procedure once after the file loads correctly.  The stored proc has no parameters.  Help greatly appreciated. FME Desktop 2012 SP3

Hi,    I have been provided an update of aerial photography in ECW format, I know that some of these files contain areas of black, i.e. there is no new photograph for this area.   I was wondering if there is a way FME can look at each file and tell me is there it contains and area of No Data without me looking at each file individually?    Thanks    Adrain

How to log into the log file, not only on the Workbench log window, the workspace parameters used to start it?

I try to convert a stormwater AutoCAD file into ArcGIS feature classes. How can I identify the flow direction. i.e. for a pipeline, which side is upstream or downstream? 

I have a question about transforming a KMZ file to a shapefile. Each time I import the KMZ file, which has several separate layers, FME is not able to identify the individual layers. The “Select Feature Types” lists out the typical feature types “Animated Update”, “Document”, “Fly To”… but the only feature type that translates into the appropriate geometry is the “Placemark”. However, when I transform the “Placemark” all the attribute information is lost. What am I doing wrong? Is there something I am missing in working with KML/KMZ data?

FME is unable to write to an ESRI enterprise SDE database.  In the log file, FME says “An ArcGIS license is already checked out. The product checked out is 'ArcView'.”  How can I specify FME use and Arc Editor or Arc Info license?  The computer has ESRI installed. There is a concurrent license that is pointed to Arc Info.  At this point there are several available Arc Info licenses. 

Dear all, I'd like to work on a automatically generated 3d model composed by lod1 and 2 building. What i'd like to do is to apply some generic texture to this model starting from a datset of tiled textures of roofs and walls. I did some experiments but the obtained results are not really good for two reasons:  - the texture is applied individually to each triangle of the model, thus obtaining a bad graphical result. - I'm not able to transform the lod1 buildings into lod 2 and merge the the result in a single datset in which each building has it's own wallsufrace, groundsurface and roofsurface.    To apply the textures I used an apparenceAdder transformer and tried to set the Geometry Filter to "Geometry Type" "is one of" "IFMEFace"  but nothing changed.    To extract the lod1 bouildings from datset and transform it in lod2 building I used the approach find on this forum ( or the ol

Hi All,  I am trying to tranfer the objects into the internal world's of either pad,switchgear or substation..Can any one please let me know, is there any possibility way to transfer the internal worlds from source file like microstation.  Thanks, Seshu

Hello,  I have annotations stored in a file geodatabase, and can convert the text into dgn labels.  Is there a way of translating the geomerty of annotation callout boxes into lines/polygons? They do not come through automatically...  Owen

Hi,  An easy one, I hope, for the ESRI experts :)  I am writing a date attribute to an Oracle SDE feature class but the month and day are reversed.  The feature class is a new table created via FME.  So 20121128  appears as 11/28/2012 and not 28/11/2012  e.g. US and not European format  I tried the DateFormatter without success.  Any thoughts would be appreciated.    Thanks,  Annette

Every night I update a bunch of MapInfo Tab-files, using FME Desctop.  My Issue: When no features enter the writer to a specific feature type, no update is made to that file. The old content remains. No features to the writer, indicates that I need the resulting file to be empty, rather than containing yesterdays data.  The MapInfo write has no "Truncate first" option, witch would help me out here...

I accidentally noticed that FME automatically reads the projection system for DWG files when a PRJ file (created using ArcGIS) with the same name as the DWG file is present in the same folder. Initially I thought that FME can now read projection system from DWG files. But when noticed that the projection system was incorrect and further investigating the issue, found FME reading the projection system from a PRJ file which is part of SHP files created using ArcGIS with the same file name as the DWG. This was notice is FME 2012 SP4 as well the latest BETA build of FME 2013. Has anyone noticed this problem? However this is not happening with DGN files for me! Regards SRG 

Removing FFS extended dataset files from the directory '' left no remaining datasets likely due to naming conflicts. Try renaming the source dataset files to avoid names like <basename>_<number>.ffs to avoid conflicts. Note that the FFS reader is sensitive to all files in the source directory and not just the selected files  Not sure how to solve this. I have split the 500 files into 5 subfolders with 100 files in each, and that seems to solve the problem. Is the problem the number of files selected per Reader? If the Reader could not open all the files it should abort - and not let me "think" that all files are selected. Not easy to discover when you merge many files into one large one.

I want to merge a shapefile and a dbf file joined by an attribute and write them to a postgis database. Is FeatureMerger the way to do this? How do I extract the merged feature information (i.e. all the merged attribute metadata) and provide it to the postgis writer so that the correct table structure is created for the merged feature type?

For compatability-reasons with Geomedia I need to write an additional field of the type "varbinary(max)" to all the tables in our SQL Server Spatial database. In FME I can set the varbinary datatype, but I can't set the "max" value. I've asked around and so far it seems the only workaround is to create the field with the datatype "image" and then alter the datatype directly in SQL Server afterwards. Any ideas on how to do a better workaround?

Can you have a Step by Step manual that explains How can I migrate data (Intergraph Geomedia Warehouses) using FME to Oracle database (Oracle Spatial Object) ? Remember that Intergraph use GOOM Package for storage on Oracle. Have FME an alternative ?  I appreciate your valious time.  Regards, Iturbides

How do I set attribute symbology when converting from and ArcGIS dataset to KML? Can it be done during the conversion process through FME, or do I need to format the KML file after conversion? 

Hello folks I trying to find away to convert ArcMAP text to AutoCAD Multi-line text. Is this possible with FME?

I have an 'update' file geodatabase and a 'destination' file geodatabase. I want to replace an existing feature class in my destination file geodatabase with the updated version from my update file geodatabase. I am using dymanic readers and writers. Usually when I do this with shapefiles I chose to truncate the table and it works fine. However, this doesn't seem to be working for my file geodatabase. The new features from the update file are being added to the existing features (i.e. the existing features remain in the file geodatabase). Is this to do with using file geodatabases (the writer mode can't be set for file geodatabases as it can be for SDE writers), or is it to do with using dynamic readers and/or writers? Can this be resolved?

I'm attempting to standup the demo ArcGIS Server data distribution application. I configured the workspace and can successfully run it from Desktop and from the FME Server Web User Interface. However, when I attempt to use the web application itself (arcgis.html), the Step 2: Set Parameters form which is supposed to be dynamically generated based on the REST API is not populating.  For reference, this is what I'm tying to do: http://fmepedia.safe.com/articles/Samples_and_Demos/Standalone-data-distribution-demo-ArcGIS-Server  Michael

Hi all is there anyway to setup an exclusion filter on a reader?  I need to run a script about a thousand times with each file in a seperate directory.  Normally I would just put a merge filter on the featuretype (*) and have the reader parameter be rootdir\\**\\*.xml.  However in this case each directory contains two xml files, one always called metadata.xml and the other is different for every directory.  I only want to read the xml file that changes, not metadata.xml.  Ideas?

I have items that are not necessary to move from one geodatabase to another. I need to exclude certain items in the source geodatabase.  For example Feature Class 1 has attributes a,b,c,d  I need to generatea new  Feature class based on feature class1 with attributes b and c.

I would like to know if anyone has exported attributes from an XFM-DGN to any type of spatial database successfully? The XFM-DGN reader was made available in the 2012 version and our organization is starting to test this functionality. Any thoughts on the translation process? Did everything work as expected?

Just wondering if FME can read data from a TrafMan Database? (data generated by street traffic counters)