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Hello! I've been working on a project for a few weeks now and finally got a good enought network. Now I want to calculate the distance from every school to every adress point. This is to later create polygons from set distances.  Is it possiable to do this in the same shortest path finder? I've been looking at list but can't figure out how to do it. Can anyone help me? I have attached my workbench and the data.  Best regards Jesper

Hi there, I'm converting IFC to CityGML following the tutorial FME shared here: https://community.safe.com/s/article/bim-to-gis-intermediate-ifc-lod-300-to-lod-4-cityg.  It is noticed that the representation of WallSurface is quite strange (red lines on the surface). May I know the reason and if there are any solution to make the wall surface shown as smooth surface like others? Thanks in advance!

I know that in PythonCaller processing is feature wise and each attribute can be access by feature.getAttribute().But for my task I need all values of attribute (e.q. to check min, max, uniqueness etc).I know that I can check those e.q. in AttributeValidator but for current task I need them in PythonCaller.Is there some way to accomplish this using fmeobjects?Something like getAllAttributeNames() but for let say column not line?Thanks,Submi

I have an Edge line (like a polyline) and would look to trim some length in feet off the beginning of the line, with the rest of the line remaining intact as is. Is there a transformer that can do this?

I've created a workspace that updates (and truncates) an ArcGIS feature service. It works great! I'd like to run it once a day in the middle of the night like 3:00 AM. I have a floating FME Desktop license and don't have access to an FME Server. I use the floating license on my desktop and laptop computers, both run Windows 10. I think that this may be more of a Windows 10 question rather than an FME question. Can anyone recommend a way for me to run an FME workspace once a day at a specific time on my desktop machine? Because I have a floating license, I think that I'll need to make sure to FME Desktop on my laptop at the end of the day. Thanks.

I need to update a text file which contains the settings for an executable tool. It would be really useful if I could automate this in FME. The text file is saved in UTF-8 format and for example, lines two and three contain the variables for START_TIME and END_TIME: START_TIME=2005/01/01 00:00END_TIME=2007/12/31 23:59 How can FME be used to change the two dates, 2005/01/01 and 2007/12/31? Thank you, Rob

In a linked custom transformer, $(FME_MF_DIR) is resolved to the path of the folder of the installed custom transformer and not to the path of the workspace. My workspace is in C:\\workspacesbut $(FME_MF_DIR) is resolved to:\\\\filer25\\users\\uxxxxx\\FME\\TransformersI have to use a PythonCaller in the custom transformer to get the value resolved to the path of the workspace. In a PythonCaller,  FME_MacroValues['FME_MF_DIR'] is resolved to the path of the workspace and not to the path of the linked custom transformer.Is this as designed, or is this a bug?

As far as I knew, the MRF2D transfomers that are offered by FME were only available with an extra cost. That detail was mentioned in the docs of those transfomers, but today I have seen that there is no longer a mention of an extra cost: https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Transformers/Transformers/mrf2dduplicateremover.htm The transfomers matrix doesn't mention that extra costa, either: https://www.safe.com/transformers/matrix/ Are those transfomers now available for everyone? If that is the case, do I need to download the

I have a workspace that is updating about 100,000 records online. It will do a couple groups of 1000 updates before the rest service returns an error:"The error code from the server was '1000' and the message was: 'Execution Timeout Expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding." Is there a way to get around this error? I was thinking that reducing the number of records updated per rest call would help but I dont see a way to change the number from 1000. Thanks!

I have a very large dataset that I usually split into 3+ pieces when I export to shapefile, then zip them up together. I'd like to use the shapefile writer to do both without setting feature thresholds (hi, FeatureCounter!) and using an external compression utility. However, when I leave the Split Dataset... checked and check the Create Compressed Shapefile option, all that's in the SHZ is the last portion of the split data set (FILENAME_3.shp, etc.). Can I use both? If so, what trick am I missing? Shapefile haterz to the back - it's sadly what The People want.

Hi. For many years, I've used FME as a portal for getting spatial data in and out of Blender. Most commonly, I've used the .OBJ format for this, which although simple, gets the job done reliably, at least as far as 3D geometry and materials go. Unfortunately, the .OBJ does not support feature attributes, which was never too much of an issue for me, as there was never too much scope for using them in Blender anyway. However, more recently, that situation has changed, particularly with the recent emergence of Blender Geometry Nodes. It's now beginning to seem like there are very good reasons for having feature attributes available to use in Blender - yet, I'm not seeing any way of transferring them across from FME (or, indeed, anywhere else). Does anyone know of a format that could potentially achieve this? Or is there a case for the creation of an .OBJ-like format that can additionally include custom feature attribution too? Once you&

When the workspace starts I have the user select a certain attribute. Depending on which attribute is chosen I want different user parameters to come up.  So for example I have a list of six items. If they pick item 1 then the attribute manager calculates a number of values. I also want it to display different user parameters depending on which inital item is chosen I hope this makes sense? I'm just not sure if I can even do this in FME. I notice any user parameters I create always show up altogether at the beginning.

Hello FME Community,can someone tell me where i can find documentation format attributes of AutoCAD (autocad_*). Vielen Dank.  

Uninstaller fails with "Error Code 2330", so going to have to manually clean it out looks like. An unfortunate consequence of our Corporate ICT policies setting the FME2018.1 package to automatically reinstall itself, even after the upgrade to FME2020.0 had just uninstalled it, and now I'm trying to repair the whole mess.

I'm trying to make the difference between two DEM in an overlap area. Already how do I create the overlap area of the two DEM (raster) in FME. And how do I calculate the difference in pixel value height between raster 1 and raster 2? thanks you!

While configuring FME server with SSL certificate(with DNS entry) its working fine for localhost and server name. When i try to access it using DNS name it gives error site is not secure and certificate mismatch addresses.

I have set up a workspace which reads in an Excel Spreadsheet whose attributes may change everytime that the workspace is run. As this workspace is part of a larger chain of workspaces I would like to be able to run it without having to reload the reader to ensure that the latest attributes and features are being brought through each time.I have tried setting the 'Scan Schema in Dynamic Workflow' parameter, but with no success. Is there something I am missing?

Hi FME users,  I am looiking for good geometry examples of any corrupted or errors that can / cannot be cleaned with the Geometry validator 2013. I found the following list: https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407709561741-Invalid-OGC-Geometry-Examples which is a perfect start but i would like to be able to hilghlight the following issues at least: http://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Transformers/Content/Transformers/geometryvalidator_issues.htm  Does anyone has a complete collection of geometry sample errors?  Thank you.  JP.

When reader is for rvt file and writer is for gltf file, I get model dimensions enlarged 1000x,for example one dimension is 33.000m instead of 33m. Any suggestion how to correct that. Thanks

Hi, I have 2 sets of features (terrain and buildings) that derives from Sketchup source file in coord WGS84 and are read via FeatureReader in to the workspace. When I combine the two features via FeatureHolder and look at visual 2D preview they both have the correct geo-location, . But if I switch over to visual 3D preview the building features seem to get an offset? If I add a Reprojector transformer (having the source coord read from feature WGS84, and destination coord to SweRef 99-18-00) they both line up in both 2D and 3D preview. Any ideas why this is happening? Please see attached image. Thanks. 

I have a feature layer with two tables in ArcGIS Online. It constantly receives new records from Survey123 survey. I'd like to join the tables together in FME them regularly import data to a new ArcGIS Online feature layer (with one table). Is this possible? Are there examples on how to do this? What transformers should I look at? Thanks.

ZMap writers have headers and within that there is zmap_format_name which by default is set to "ZMAP DEFAULT " Is there any way of writing out a different value? Thanks, Glenn

Hello, I am trying to extrude a set of building footprint layer. The building footprint layer is in a 2D shapefile format. Since the dataset doesn't have building height and base height attributes I tried to extract the elevation and building height from point cloud data using Surface draper. I attached the workaround here:  I run the Extruder transformer, but the 3D visualization of the building does not represent how a solid 3D building should look like. The top of the building is not flat and when I click on a feature there are lines inside the building model (seems like it generated multiple edges??). How could I generate a building model that looks somewhat like the Lod1solid building model? What are the correct steps?

I'm trying to extract building footprints from GEOTIFF raster images. I have raster Orthophotos (Aerial imagery), Digital Terrain Model (DTM/DEM) and a Digital Surface model (DSM), but I do not have the building footprints. My end goal is to use the DEM + DSM to extract the height of the buildings and extrude the building footprint to 3D models. I found this article: https://smartcarto.com/gis/detect-buildings-in-satellite-imagery-using-machine-learning-fme-vs-arcgis-pro/, but it doesn't really go into detail, and since I also have DEM and DSM, not just orthophotos I thought I migh thave other possibilties. I've extracted building footprints from Point Cloud date before, but this time I only have a