The bufferer will allow you to create a solid 'sphere' (or an approximation of one) from a point

Hi @fordy,

Adding onto egomm's answer, these are the parameters that I used to get to get 3D spheres from your points.

I also noticed that you already have an attribute on each feature with _filename but if you're looking to add the CSV's filename, then you can expose fme_basename, and that will add the csv name (27107-xyz) to each feature. You can also concatenate a file name extension if you want to using a StringConcantenator.

I believe that you can use either the Bufferer (FME 2018+, Buffer Type: Solid) or the 3DBuffere from FME Hub to create spherical solid from 3D points. Try using a VertexCreator to create 3D points from (X, Y, Z) coordinates then applying the Bufferer.

Thankyou @egomm and @jovitaatsafe it worked very well.

That said, its quite slow. Generating 607 spheres and it took 46 minutes. Is that normal and more importantly, is there anything we can do to reduce the time taken to produce?

Thanks

Chris.

Workspace below (with adding the attributes)

Try this.

Create just a single sphere (center point = (0, 0, 0)) with Creator + Bufferer, merge it to every feature unconditionally with the FeatureMerger (Feature Merge Type: Geometry), then offset it by (x, y, z) with the Offsetter.

Thanks @takashi I nearly have it, but slightly confused about the feature merger unconditional join, can you help?

You can set an identical constant value (e.g. 1) to the Join On parameter for both Requestor and Supplier, in order to merge a single supplier to every requestor.

Thanks @takashi it worked, but it seems to be as slow to create the 607 spheres.

Is this something I have to just accept?

I am scaling up to coordinates by 1000. Does this have anything to do with it?

What settings are you using in the 3dbufferer? Using your sample csv I can create 607 spheres in less than 10 seconds

Hi @egomm. here are the settings.

@egomm I think its the RealDWGwriter. When I change to an inspector, it completed in less than 30 seconds

Hi @fordy, would you be able to share your parameters in the 3DBufferer again? It would also be great if you could attach your full logfile as a textfile attachment to get a look at what might be happening to make the translation slow for you. Thanks!