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I want to convert shape files to DGN map squares(tiles). For the output I use FANOUT. As input I use a csv file with coordinates of map squares to determine the naming and boundaries of the DGNs. I also want to use the same naming convention for the multiple input seedfiles. I have added SEEDFILE as an attribute in the workflow. I get an error message that: DESIGN WRITER: Failed to copy seed file ‘@Value(SEEDFILE)’.dgn to the destination data file @Value(FILENAME).dgn…. Either the path to destination does not exist or the file is in use by other programs. IT looks that ii is not recognized in Parameter Seed File…PS:@Value(FILENAME).dgn I use for the FANOUT is recognised but not when I use it for the seed-file such as seed_@Value(FILENAME).dgnEXAMPLE:seed_100200.dgn → 100200.dgnseed_100200.dgn → 100201.dgn 

HiI recently upgraded FME Form from 2025.0 to 2026.1.1 and my workspace for processing IFC files no longer seems to work. So far, I have noticed these issues:FME 2026 does not detect the same attributes, such as BIP.IfcGUID.NominalValue I removed the reader and added it again and FME now seems to replace BIP.IfcGUID.NominalValue with BIP.IfcGUID. The “Door” subset now seems to cointain thousands of attributes, which was not the case in FME 2025. This makes FME very slow to work with. Saving the workspace now takes several minutes and the .fmw file has grown from around 0,9 MB to 21 MB. Opening the workspace takes several minutes as well. Has anyone else noticed these issues?

Hi all,I have a table in Redshift that is JDBC (not the spatial version of Redshift); it has a column that is in WKB.  I need to extract this and create points in Lat Long.  I’ve tried the geometry extractor but getting nowhere fast.  Have also tried sql executer to use the ST_geometry to get the coords, nowhere again.  When I tried to use the Redshift connections, the username/pwd and related connection data did not connect.  It is only with JDBC that I can create the connection.Anyone had any experience with this?Thanks,Lorinda

Hi allI want to define the Geometry Type in PostGIS-Writer. I recently changed from an old version of FME to version 2025.2 In the user dialog of the writer there ist still a field for the definition (feature type/user attributes/spatial definition/geometry type, but the field is de-activated (grayed out).Is there a way to “manually” define the geometry type for postgis tables?  Thank you for any help.

Linked to this query, that i believe is now closed, it would be great to be able to export GOCAD TS files.

Hi all,I’m working with FME 2025.1 on a LandXML export-import workflow and encountering an issue: LandXML Reader and Writer do not have a Version 1.2 option. My goal is to export a corridor alignment, but the vertical alignment (profile) data is not coming through correctly. Without 1.2 support, how can I tolerate or work around these missing elements in FME? Specifically, I’m wondering: Is there a way to properly bring vertical alignment data from a LandXML 1.2 file into FME? Are there alternative formats or preprocessing steps to compensate for missing data? How can I avoid data loss on the Writer side, since 1.2 is not supported for export? Thanks in advance for any guidance!

Hello,I have a workbench that converts GIS data to an AutoCAD Map 3D object data file. In this workbench, I’m creating new layers that don’t exist in the template file being used, and would like to set their default lineweight of these new layers to “Default” or “ByLayer”. I am able to successfully define an “autocad_lineweight” attribute in the workbench and set it equal to -3 or -1 and the GIS line features that are translated receive the correct lineweight value.However, the layers themselves do not. The layer default lineweight appears to be controlled by the “Default Lineweight” parameter in the writer feature type. Unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to an option to select -3 or -1. Additionally, attempting to set that parameter to the previously defined attribute leads to a failure w/the following messages (xyz is the path & file name of the output):AutoCAD Writer: An error occurred for dataset ‘xyz’ in function RealDWGWriter::checkToCreateDynamicObjectDataTable. Unknown exc

Hello ,I would like to create a complete review list of all FME workspaces and processes in our environment.The first requirement is to generate a list of all FME names available in FME Server, including: Which users have access to export them Whether they are automated If automated, on which day and at what time they run  Where is the FME output stored? If they are manually exported, which users have permission or access to perform the export The second requirement is to create a list of all FME workspaces built and stored on local Windows environments.I would also like to export all names and related information into Excel files.What would be the best solution or approach to manage both requirements and create a complete review list of all active and working FME .Thanks in advance 

With the now depreciated IFC with Data Views, I was able to extract colour properties using an Appearance Extractor which I could then write to the resulting multipatch. Having looked at the IFC_API reader, it doesn’t seem to have any of the colour properties and all fail in the Appearance Extractor. Can anyone advise on how to access the colour using this reader? 

Hello FME-Communtiy,With the advent of the new IFC-Writer we wanted to update and hopefully slim down our FME Workspace, which reads Multipatch Geometries via an Esri Geodatabase (File Geodb) Reader and writes IFC-Features via an IFC XML/STEP (deprecated) writer. Sadly we’ve not managed to get the new writer working as needed and have found the documentation rather lackluster, which is why I’d appreciate any pointers from the knowledgeable people on here.The new workspace has managed to correctly export the feature geometries, but the attributes seem to be missing/not written at all. Inside the new Workspace the features have the correct attributes and values up until the very end where they are sent to the IFC-writer (In this Case I tried Slab as the Element Type, BuildingElementProxy gave the same results and SpatialZone doesn’t work at all anymore).New Workspace final export inside Data Inspector (red color intentional)Old Workspace final export inside Data InspectorIn the old Works

Please create an FME option to connect to GCP (Google Cloud Platform) using “Workload Identity Federation” method in addition to Service account (current option).Thank you!

Hello everyone,We just upgraded to FME Form 2024.2.1 and we currently encounter one problem. For the users, the personal database- and web connections were inititally not migrated. Thus we sent first a mail to the users that they coud export the database- and webconnections in FME Form 2023 and then import  the exported file in FME Form 2024. It looked like it solved the problem, however when the users logged in the next day on an new machine, they lost all their personal database-  and webconnections.We read the following link: Changes to Connection Storage in FME Form 2024 – FME Support Center and it became clear to us that's due to the new way that personal database- and webconnections are stored. They are stored in fme_userconnection.data and the machineID is hardcoded in this file.In our organization we work on a virtual machine and thus also everytime we log into a new machine. It's now clear why the database- and webconnections are not visible in FME Form 2024.I was wondering if

Hello,I I am fairly inexperienced with some FME processes.My task at work is to extract text from DGN files and convert it to Annotation Feature classes in a GDB. I need to override the FontSize value that comes from DGN with a specific value in the GDB Annotation class, and all my attempts failed. Does anyone have suggestions on how to go about it? I am using FME 2024 and ArcPro 3.5. Thanks! 

Can fme only run up to citygml 2.0?I don't know the part about uploading citygml 3.0. 

Hi,I was hoping to use the new IFC writer available in FME 2026.1 to update the IfcPresentationLayer attribute values from IFC to IFC.The idea was to disregard the current layers exported from Revit from others and define our own layer presentation for the models so we can turn certain layers on and off in our platform (Trimble Connect). I used the reader to load the IFC file (in 2x3 format), and it successfully retrieved all layer attributes into FME. However, I don’t seem to be able to write the updated layers.In fact, even without adding any transformers—just using the reader and writer from IFC to IFC—the layers are lost. So I’m wondering if anyone has had success using the latest FME reader and writer for rewrite the layersThanks!

For a specific Writer (for example Precisely MapInfo Extended TAB)Is there a way to see a history of changes and improvements from version to version of FME Form?I have v2022.1 installed, and I am researching if the Writer has changed or improved in v2025.I am aware that a Transformer has a version number specific to that Transformer, but a Writer’s version number is locked to the version number of FME Flow, so it is hard to quickly determine if the Writer has changed between versions of FME Form.

Hi,I’m looking for solutions to a problem that may not be solvable.I regularly need to refer to a spreadsheet from the NZ Electricity Authority (it’s open data).  At the moment I have to regularly download it from https://register.ea.govt.nz/ using the ‘Download’ button This downloads a dynamically time-stamped spreadsheet of the electricity industry participants and their relevant codes.I want to automate this with Form/Flow but this is a sticking point.  I’ve suggested to them that they expose this as a service for the industry, but the wheels move slowly if at all.Any idea on how to read, or more likely, automatically download this?  For the download I’m open to non-FME automations.Thanks

FME Form Excel writer warns of reserved characters, where none exist, in the names of my Named ranges and appends underscores to them. I am getting a lot of warnings similar the following:Excel Writer: Feature Type '/AH_4_3_Housed_Part_Time_Replacement' has been modified to '/AH_4_3_Housed_Part_Time_Replacement_' to avoid reserved characters for Named Ranges and Tables in Microsoft Excel This is unhelpful behaviour, can I avoid it?2025.2

Hello Community,I wonder if anyone has recent experience with Bentley POD Reader. This reader requires installed and licensed Bentley Pointools, which has been deprecated for several years by now and can not be purchased anymore. Is there another way to read POD files with FME? Can Pointools be replaced with something else to enable POD Reader?Thank you 

We have over 300 FME dataflows using multiple Oracle databases.  We are trying to figure out how to list all the different tables and schemas used by all the dataflows together.

Hello everyone,I looked at thread DGN writer RGB color | Community and I am dealing with the same problem.Ideally I would like to get the RGB color (true values) instead of the colorindex from the color table.I read in the above thread that true color should be available from FME Form 2023 on, but I still get the index number from the color table. Iam using FME Form 2024.2.1 by the way.I do the following thingI have a dgn styler configurated as follows in the Writer I use a seedfile with RGB values for the layers Output is    Am I doing somethign wrong or are true colors not yet available in FME 2024.2.1?

The white rectangle is my polygon and the orange line is my line. I am trying to clip the polygon based on the length of the line.I was looking for an output like this. I have looked at this step  and also this step but i am not getting a correct clip.  Any ideas will be highly appreciated Thanks in advance,Keller. 

I am using the “StringReplacer” transformer to replace commas with line breaks.My attribute value looks like this:ANGLE: von 115.65130615 auf 116,ident: von --- auf ON,ADRESSCODE: von 6 aufI tried replacing , with \n, but it does not create a new line.How can I correctly insert line breaks in FME? 

Hello ,n FME Workbench, I am trying to set up a workspace where multiple readers use a common main folder path.I created a user parameter for the main directory (root folder), and my goal is for each reader to use this main path while only specifying its own subfolder.However, when I add a new reader and configure its dataset path, it changes the same user parameter used by the other readers. As a result, all readers end up pointing to the same path, which is not what I want.How can I configure my workspace so that:One user parameter defines the main folder path, and Each reader can independently define its own subfolder without affecting the others?FME 2021 thanks in advance 

Hi everyone,I’m currently building a tool in FME to compare a point cloud with a .000 layer that contains point soundings.Because the two datasets have different geometry types, I rounded the coordinates in both datasets to the same decimal precision (0 decimal places), using the CoordinateRounder. After that, I extracted the X and Y coordinates as attributes so that I could compare them directly using the CoordinateExtractor.When using the Matcher, I intentionally excluded the geometries and matched the features purely based on the coordinate attributes. The matcher does find some matches between the two datasets, but it does not capture all of them.I also tried using both FeatureJoiner and FeatureMerger, but these transformers merge all attributes, which I would prefer to avoid for this workflow.Initially, I suspected the issue might be related to the coordinate system. However, when I examine the features that were not matched and compare them with the original soundings from the .0