Module 'realdwg/REALDWG' is unavailable for use with this FME edition (FME Flow 2024.2)
After upgrading FME Flow to 2024.2 some of our workspaces fail with the following error:
WARN |Library 'F:\FMEFlow\Server\fme\plugins/realdwg/REALDWG.dll' was found but could not be loaded. Ensure that all the dependent modules exist for this library
WARN |Could not load module 'F:\FMEFlow\Server\fme\plugins/realdwg/REALDWG.dll' : 'The specified module could not be found'
WARN |Could not load module 'F:\FMEFlow\Server\fme\realdwg/REALDWG.dll' : 'The specified module could not be found'
ERROR |Module 'realdwg/REALDWG' is unavailable for use with this FME edition
Seems like RealDWG and AUTOCAD_OD readers/writers do not work anymore.
-Is this a known issue/bug?
-Is RealDwg not supported anymore? It does work in FME Form 2024.2
It seems there might be a problem in the FME packaging of 2024.2. Checking the dependencies of realdwg.dll in FME Flow the following shows:
In the screenshot the dependencies compared to the plugins folder, where apparently older dlls are installed.
To fix this, we've copied the fme\plugins\realdwg folder from a FME Workbench installation which contained the exact same realdwg.dll as FME Flow with ...25.dll dependencies, but also the correct ****25.dll files.
This is in FME Flow 2024.2 Build 24783 - win64
Can you confirm that the dll’s in Flow are older than the ones in a Form with the same build? If that is the case it seems to be a pretty major issue.
That's correct. The build number for both Flow and Form is 24783.
The software version does show 7.46.24783 for Flow and 7.51.24783 for Form.
Interesting! @jovitaatsafe could you look into this?
Hi All,
This issue has been fixed in FME Flow 2024.2.1, which will be available for download on Dec 5.
I upgraded to 2024.2.1 on the 12/17/24 and I am seeing this issue so it appears to not have been fixed.
Hi @tjc_cows,
I installed Flow 2024.2.1 on a clean pc, and tested writing with RealDWG. It seemed to work OK.
Please send me the log file from your copy of Flow from a failed run, and I will try to find the source of the failure.
Hi @daveatsafe,
Update: I installed Flow on a new Windows Server 2022 and now I am getting a different error that I can’t find anything about.
Error happens at the PloygonBuilder: AutoCAD Reader: An error occurred for dataset ..., in function AutoCAD2004Reader::read. Exception thrown: 'Invalid ResBuf' (Invalid ResBuf)
Hi @tjc_cows,
I think we will need to reproduce that error here to see what is causing it. Please submit a ticket at https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/p/support, and include a copy of the DWG file triggering the error.
