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Hi, I was hoping to create a workbench that has a base surface and a target surface and finds the volume between the two, is there any way to do that with the below transformer ie. make the base a surface with elevation differentials?Any suggestions appreciated!Thank you.  

I know in the Esri ArcGIS Portal Feature Service writer there are parameters to control writing out with branch versioning.Is there similar functionality for traditional versioning?If yes, is there a way to have traditional versioning and preserve Global IDs using the Esri ArcGIS Portal Feature Service writer?

When writing my data to an Excel spreadsheet, then I thought to get the attribute names in the first row of the spreadsheet.According the the documentation, the parameter ‘Output Field Names’ only has an effect ‘[...] only if the sheet or named range is being created or has been dropped or truncated prior to insertion. Otherwise, attribute names will not be added to existing worksheets or named ranges.’So, I drop and truncate what ever I can… 😂 However, while ‘Overwrite Existing File’ can be set to yes or no, and it sticks to the writers settings, the in the documentation mentioned parameters can be set to yes, but the next time you open the writers parameters dialog, your setting is back to no.The problem is most likely related to

Hi, I'm trying to populate the "To" and "From" attributes in the Line feature. I have points snapped to the line feature, causing the line to split at the point. I need to fill out the "To" and "From" attributes. I tried a certain approach, but it didn't work:I buffered the point feature and used LineOnAreaOverlayer, and then the Coordinate extractor to find the start and end points of the line.If there is any other way I can use to accomplish this task, please advise.Thanks!

Hello, Using FME Workbench 2022.2 and am able to connect to ArcGIS Feature Service (10.9.1) via the reader with a supplied token (manually). Is there a way in FME workbench to automatically regenerates the ArcGIS token everytime the workbench is run? ThanksAnthea

Hi  I have a workbench that I use for making ortho photo’s. I’m using this same workbench for over 4years now and since last week I’m getting always the same error. It’s says: jpeg2000 writer: Could not perform compression. I don’t know how to solve this, as it has worked always before… I installed the lastest FME form yesterday. I get the same error.   I don’t know for sure, but one time I looked at the edit header option under tools to solve something, but I don’t think I changed anything. Could that result in this error? 

Hi, few days ago I open a post :Best answers it was ok when I try with just one watercourse, but with 2 or more it’s not working. I tryed many days but without success, I don’t know how to set the accumulative lenght custom transformer to work with many watercourses. All segments that are part of a watercourse share an identifier (gwlnr) In attached there is a gpkg and .fmw. with the project in FME thanks in advance  Custom transformer accumulative lenght 

Hi all, Is there a way of exposing the transformer name as an attribute value? I'm trying to create a generic Emailer in which all the transformer "rejected" ports feed into, allowing easy identification as to where the error occurred in the workspace. Currently I'm creating a separate Emailer and writing the transformer name in by hand for each point of failure. I'm running FME Desktop 2019.2 :)ThanksAlex

I have a scan of an old map, that I want to geo-rectify so that it sits neatly under a vector dataset of property boundaries.I am following the example at this link “Adding GCPs to a scanned topographic map”RasterGCPSetter (safe.com)I have picked three GCPsI have a JPEG Reader for the scanned mapI use a RasterGCPSetter to set the three GCPsI then use the RasterGCPApplier to apply the GCPs (I downloaded GCPApplier from the hub)At this point it all looks great. The Inspector shows that the scanned map has rotated about 10-15 degrees. I am only using three GCPs, so this is an expected result.I then use a GeoTIFF WriterBut the GeoTIFF output has no rotation :-(What am I doing wrong? How do I write out a raster that is rectified?

Hi all,I have geometries (roofs) and I will use the transformer donutbuilder for further processing. The incoming polygons are all planar. The transformer “DonutBuilder” stopped with this rejection code:INVALID_GEOMETRY_DEGENERATEI was hoping to solve the problem with the “Geometry Validator” (fix degenerate or corrupt geometries). But all geometries were ok according to the validator.How can I avoid this error?Does anyone have an idea how I can solve this?

I have a lot of SDE connection files that I would like to create named connections for in FME Form 2024.I would like if possible to automate this by creating an xml file to import.  I can use the Directory and File Pathnames Reader to get the path and the name for each sde connection file, so I am thinking I could use FME Form  to  create a xml file with all the entries I need and import that into the fme_userconnection.data filer whiteout having to do this manually one by one.I do not need to specify anything special in the connections,  version, credentials etc. can all be defaulted, so the 2 values I need are the path and name, which I can get.  I tried making a single conn and then exporting to see the xml format, but al the values are encrypted. Is there any kind of xml template or example xml I could use to see how to do this ?       

I have a process that includes the GeometryValidator transformer with a check on for self-intersections in 2D. The validation rightly captures those overlapping or crossing segments, but it also incorrectly catches vertices that snap to another segment. These kinds of geometries can be correct, as in the case of a trail that has a T-intersection and loops back onto itself.I’ve not found a mechanism to allow these kinds of errors to be considered valid. Does anyone have a work-around?

Hi,I have a layer of hydrographic network lines. A watercourse is composed of one or more segments, which share an ID. I have two attributes, abscissa_start and abcissa_end, which correspond to the length of the segment in a sequence. For example, in the attached image, I have a watercourse, where the first segment measures 50m, so start_abscissa is 0, and end_abscissa is 50, the second segment measures 80m, so start_abscissa must be 50, and end_abscissa must be 130, and so on. I need to find a way to be able to calculate the two fields abcissa_start and abcissa_end in FME automatically.The segments are always digitised from the origin to the mouth, and the calculation must be done taking into account as the first segment the one at the mouth. They already have a lenght field. Thanks,   

Hello, I want to cut a layer (buffer zone) according to another layer (urban zones), so I set up the transformers clipper but the cutting does not take place and the entities that emerge are the same as at the input (cf. attachment) :Before Clipper :After Clipper : Would you have an idea to make this cutting work so that my buffer zone does not exceed (that it must therefore be cu

What happened to Revit appearances in 24.1? Or did I miss some new setting? 2023.224.1 

Hi All, First of all, thank you for taking your time to read this post.FME Desktop 2022.2Objective: Using the Feature Reader I’m trying to dynamically have a user input an existing sde table name (so the user is prompted to insert the table name that already exists), then I have a reprojector followed by the FeatureWriter to Drop and Create the table in a new projection. The table to be dropped an create will be the same one inserted by the user. Hence, this table already exists. Error: ‘Feature Type Definition {feature here} was requested, but not defined’. I checked another similar post, but I still can’t get my workbench to work.  I have a Feature Reader set as follows: When I run the workbench, the FeatureReader do

Hi All, First of all, tanks for reading my post. FME Desktop 2022.2Objective: Using the Feature Reader I’m trying to dynamically have a user input an existing sde table name (so the user is prompted to insert the table name that already exists), then I have a reprojector followed by the FeatureWriter to Drop and Create the table in a new projection. The table to be dropped an create will be the same one inserted by the user. Hence, this table already exists. Error: ‘Feature Type Definition {feature here} was requested, but not defined’. I checked another similar post, but I still can’t get my workbench to work.  I have a Feature Reader set as follows: When I run the workbench, the FeatureReader does not show the

Hi all,I have a set of input street lines with certain attribute (POSTAL CODES), and I would like to create area polygons from unique values of such postal code attribute. Street Lines with postal code attributeI have utilized AreaBuilder for such purposes and this is an example of the output: Inner polygons created by AreaBuilderThis is the params I have for such transformation:What I would like to have as an output is the area covered by all the street lines with unique p

I have a feature class with cycling and walking routes (with ID and Name) and a feature class with the starting points of the (circular) routes. I want to write all the routes in the feature class to separate gpx-files. Each gpx-file should have the name of the route in its filename.I tried with the ‘fanout’ option in the writer, but the resulting files are no gpx-files and are very small (1kB), so without content I guess. Any advise? 

Hi all,I am using Change Detection to compare 2 geodb_tablesAt the delete ports, the correct number of deleted rows is 2But it is not being cleared in my writer, the result in the output table is still 11Please let me know how to fix this error.For the geodb_point and geodb_line data, the result is completely correct, only geodb_table has an error as I showed above. 

I try to read a dgn file using FME and have some special results. The data is in epsg:28992 (Netherlands RD new) which is in meters. But it reads lines with the following coordinates:189492.31655848716, 348069.1188694655, 28.224907750701906 1.7976931348623158e+304, 1.7976931348623158e+304, 1.7976931348623158e+304 189492.31740355192, 348069.1195426307, 28.22490763540268 189492.31655848716, 348069.1188694655, 28.22490775070190The second coordinate seems to be very far off and not correct. I am able to delete the points from the lines which are that far off, but I wonder if anyone knows this as a bug, a feature or a setting?Thanks for looking,Niels

Hi,This is a question that is really related to another piece of software (lastools) but it is using a product of FME.Basically in lastools you can colour a point cloud by an aerial image (the same as PointCloudOnRasterComponentSetter). I want to set up a script to do it in lastools because that is faster for this task.Anyway, lastools only accepts one raster (tif) as an input. I have multiple overlapping rasters. The overlapping parts are identical. What I want to do is merge these rasters and chop to the extents of each input point cloud.That is all easy but I’m having a little trouble getting it to work. It seems that lastools doesn’t like the RasterMosaicker transformer. The input (pre merged) rasters work fine, and even the clipped rasters (clipped but not merged). Which I’m taking to mean my writer properties are correct. I can’t see any difference in properties between ones that work and a mosaicked raster. I.e the bands/palettes are all the same b

When I try to connect to a MySQL DB I get an error message related to the encoding format of the server. As I’m not an admin I can’t change the encoding of the Server. How can I solve this issue in FME Desktop 2022.2.---------------------------Fetching Feature Types Error---------------------------<b>Failed to retrieve feature types.</b><p>MySQL: the MySQL server does not support the utf8 encoding. Aborting translation---------------------------Close   --------------------------- Thanks for helping me out. Kind regards,Guy  

Hi,I was wondering if you could please provide me with a sample FME script that uses PythonCaller or PythonExecutor transformers.I’m trying to setup FME Form to ensure PythonCaller is working. As well, would greatly appreciate any instructions you could provide to configure FME and Python and ensure that PythonCaller would work.Thanks, Wilfredo

Hi All,Today’s million dollar question: I have created a workflow to process some polygon and table data into a template GDB. The process isn’t too complicated but I think the most consuming transformers in the process are the DataTimeConverter and the FeatureWriter. I have done some tests but assume that processing around 94M of records will takes days. Mainly, writing 94M of records into a gdb template will be a nightmare.Here is a screenshot of the workflow, I have also attached a version of it:How can I improve the performance of the workflow and process around 94M of records in a clever way?Open to suggestions :)Thanks