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Hi, Can someone explain the following behaviour?Goal: create one mesh with each surface as a ‘flat’ color’ without shading. Problem: I get a shading effect that I do not want after merging many faces into one mesh. Images are attached. The first image is correct, it shows each side as one flat shading of the color #c8c8c8 (200, 200, 200). This is when I applied that as appearance to each single part (40.000). After merging all these 40.000 Faces or Meshes into 1 mesh, a new shading is applied that is undesired. I use MeshMerger with default settings. Can someone explain to me why this is happening and how I can prevent this to happen? If I re-apply the appearance to the single mesh it still gets the shading. Why is this happening? Where is it coming from? I also tried using appearance from a single jpg with the solid color, but this also did not work.  Thanks.

I have a set of records that read via SQLExecutor which includes a timestamp field (driver_date). This seems to be stored a “buffer” datatype. I don’t seem to be able to explode this field using the DateTimeExploder as it can’t autodetect the timestamp value as a date/time value. I’ve tried including a DateTimeConverter, but get the same result. Is there someway to convert the timestamp from “buffer” datatype to datetime?

Hi,I created new attributes in connection to a BIM project. Now I want to add these results back into my IFC file as a custom property set. I have been inspired by the 'AutoCAD to IFC Conversion Example', but my root IFC File is a little bit more complex then an AutoCAD DWG.I can write the attributes to the geometry, but, in my opinion, the result is on the false hierarchy level. The other custom property sets a stored as a geometry instance (Aggregate). So how can I write the property sets at the right place?For a better explanation, I add my Workspace and a screenshot from the transformation result. Thanks for your help!

I am trying to finish my workspace. I have gotten as far as the Attribute Manager which has Lat and Lon fields in it. Currently the data being fed into Attribute Manager_10 (screenshot below) is Lines. I want to use the Lat Lon fields in the AttributeManager_10 to create Points and not use Lines. Any ideas on what Transformer(s) I need to add after AttributeManger_10? Seems like VertexCreator would be the most appropriate Transformer to use in this situation, correct? 

Im begging for an answer about the question How can I convert a file 3dm (Rhino 7) into a file pln. (ARCHICAD)? 

I am having trouble getting this converted to the right format. The times seem way off when I use the date time converter.  This was a time stamp that was in a response message to a REST call that I got. Would anyone know how to prep these values + set up the date time converter correctly?“1722597785000” ← format of timestamp Thank you!

Im begging for an answer about the question How can I convert a file 3dm (Rhino 7) into a file pln. (ARCHICAD)? 

I was wondering about the FME Flow Temp Resource (i.e. '$(FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_TEMP)'). As the name suggests its supposed to be a temporary folder.  First question I have on this, Is it correct that there is no default mechanism (e.g. that there is no default cleanup task) that cleans out this Temp (FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_TEMP) folder, and that if you want to have it be cleaned every X days/weeks, you should create a new System Cleanup Task? It seemed to me that this was the case, and while setting up my own System Cleanup Task to have this Temp (FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_TEMP) folder cleared, I came across some confusing points I would like to address/ask. My second question;How does the 'Remove Files Older Than' parameter set (at tab 'Tasks' of 'System Cleanup') relate to the 'Task Interval' parameter for 'Normal Conditions' (that can be configured at the 'Configuration' tab of 'System Cleanup')? E.g., if I set up a task to clean up

I have an issue in which my HTMLExtractor does not give the page time to load before it returns a null value for the DIV im trying to scrape.  It works well on pages that load quickly, but this particular page can take up to 10 seconds to load.   How do I work around this?  Thank you!

How to identify Geometry and Street name attributes gaps continuity checks considering the flow of street name starting point to end point where street name  ends.Please help me in this continuity checks logical approach or any flow of transformers to consider for this street name attribute values checks for the complete stretch in the geodatabase  line feature file or shapefile.

What is the best way to convert Lines to Points? I would like the points that are created to fall in the middle of the line and include all non-geometry attributes of each line. I am hoping there a LinetoPoint Transformer out there somewhere. 

I find that the string functions on FME2024 don’t work similarly in FME 2023, in this case, it led to some problems with the outcome as not expected. Example:I have 2 strings:“EMD-1” “ÊMĐ-1”I use string functions as below: I received 2 outcomes differently:With the text 1: Count_index = 4With the text 2: Count_index = 6It is not right, in FME 2023 the outcome is 4 for both situations.Is this a bug in FME2024 ? 

Hi,I have a workspace that executes a piece of python in a PythonCaller which uses ArcPy. However it crashes the ArcGIS application that is running the ArcPy(Not FME Form), giving the following popup   The log doesn't have any errors and only two warnings: Python: There is a known Windows bug that may cause instability when using Python in the current locale. Please update to Windows 10 version 2004 and greater, or to Windows Server 2022. See http://fme.ly/nw5 for more details I have seen this warning a few times and in articles. So far this is the first time it gives me a crash. Articles say you need to update your windows version. At the moment I have Windows Server 2019 Datacenter, Version 1809.So there is an update possible here. Another warning is: PythonFactory script changed the current FME process locale from 'Dutch_Netherlands.utf8' to 'Dutch_Netherlands.1252' and FME has restored it back to 'Dutch_Netherlands.utf8'. It is undefined behavior to change locale and doing so may c

Hello,I have just upgraded to FME 2024.1 (was originally using FME 2022) and when running an SQLCreator using ODBC3.x I get an error, this was working just fine when using FME 2022.What’s strange is that even though I receive an error, all expected features are semi-cached and observable in the translation view as shown in the picture, the problem is that I can’t continue to run the following transformers as FME is taking it that the SQLCreator failed.Does anyone have any advice on how to get around this? My SQL code is fairly simple, just pinging an Azure database and doing some basic joins (the code also works fine when running on Azure Data Studio). Thank you! 

Hi, I receive this message: message":"Some or all of the input parameters are invalid","problems":[{"reason":"dependency","field":"publishedParameters","message":"Illegal field  Does anyone know the reason?Thank you 

Hello , i have points and lines are topology connect together .i would like to find all paths possible in the network .i have used shortest path finder but it finds only the shortest path ,so i am looking for other solution to find all paths in the network between all points.i appreciate any help .Thanks in advance .FME 2021

Why does the FeatureReader transformer using OData operated differently (slower or not at all) with the same parameters used with the “regular” Reader, which performs as expected https://data.environment.alberta.ca/Services/EDW/waterwellsdatamart/odata/filterCreateTimestamp%20gt%202024-08-04T00:00:00-06:00 Table/FeatureWells  Thanks.

I am using the FME objects python API including the FMEUniversalReader. fmeobjects.FMEUniversalReader — Python FME API FME 2024.1 b24615 documentation (safe.com)In the documentation for this API it says to pass “Reader’s type mneumonic as found in the FME Reference Manual Part II” but the reference manual isn’t linked.It isn’t in the admin guide: FME Desktop Administrator's Guide (safe.com)And Safe Docs just link back to the python API Search (safe.com) which doesn’t actually tell me the mneumonics.When I pass it’s reference in the UI for FME Form I get this error in my python caller.This FME edition does not recognize the `ARCSDE GEODB' reader. Please ensure that the current platform supports this reader, the reader name is spelled correctly, and that you have installed all required plug-insThe reason I am doing is because of this issue; AreaonAreaOverlay with intersecting features | Community (safe.com) and using the python caller seems like the best median to keep this in FME.

I have a multiple choice question at first. Depending on the checked values I want to ask some follow-up questions. I only want these follow-up questions visible when the user checked that topic in the multiple choice question.Since I cannot use a condition on visibility like ‘contains’, I tried this by first using a scripted parameter.If the value is checked, return 1, else return 0.I then use this scripted parameter in the conditional visibility of the follow-up question(s).But.. this does not seem to work and affect the visibility.If I run the script, I can see the scripted parameter does work, it returns a 1 if needed and a 0 otherwise.But it does nothing for the visibility of the follow-up questions.Can this work? Or are the scripted parameters only calculated afterwards/during runtime and therefore cannot be used in conditional visibility of other parameters?I'm also seeing some new possibilties in 2024.1 (currently working in 2023.1) with the scripted selection. Would this solve

I have a glut of features of multiple types coming in from a handful of .ifc files. I am attempting to write a transformer as a proof of concept that will allow me to filter the features (currently 174000+) to different writers based on a small difference within their source filenames. Basically what I want to know is if it is possible to use the text editor to create an “if filename contains text (abc)” filter. If not, what would be the best way to filter for something like this.  

Something simple but can’t get it to work. I have a Field1 with two records. One record contains numbers as 205202021356 and the other record does not contain numbers as DAKLL. I have an attributeManager where I want to assign a value for the records that do not contain numbers and keep the value the same for the records that are numeric. In the AttribteManager transformer, this is what I have under the AttributeValue field 2 possible values:So if Field1 is not numeric, I want to assign NAIf it is numeric (contains numbers) then leave it with its original valueSample below are the records. I want to assign NA to record 2 and keep record 1 as is.Field1205202021356DAKLL When I run the workbench, it keeps assigning NA to both records, rather than to one record. Thank you.

Hi,I would like to convert an xlsm into xls so that I can then do a task chain. Is there a transformer or several that can help me ?Thank you for your help

I need to use the PythonCaller because the area on area overlayer doesn’t work with my input featureset. I want each polygon in featureset A to overlay against all the polygons in Featureset B (which does not self intersect) and then drop overlays with NA values in specific columns. I found documentation for the fmeobjects.PythonCaller, but the documentation doesn’t include how to actually run the transformer.fmeobjects.FMETransformer — Python FME API FME 2024.1 b24615 documentation (safe.com)i.e. what do I do with f = fmeobjects.FMETransformer after I’ve set the attributes?Additionally, it’s unclear what the parameters are for this object, as there is no function definition returned to define what is required for each transformer type.AreaOnAreaOverlayer (safe.com)Related questions:AreaonAreaOverlay with intersecting features | Community (safe.com)Where is the FME User manual | Community (safe.com)

Is there a transformer that can create classes based on natural breaks, quantiles or equal Intervals?

Hi.I have a workbench equipped with several runners. I want to send myself an email upon completion of the workbench, detailing the duration each runner took. I implemented a DateTimeStamper at the Succeeded port for each workbench and attempted to merge this with the creation instance, but it failed to function as expected.I would like the result to include the duration each workbench ran and the total time upon process completion.Any help is greatly appreciated.