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I have the need to utilise a dynamic writer for coordinate conversion of a user uploaded file.The schema will be unknown therefore the need to be dynamic.I am using FME (20201027 - Build 20787)I have used a writer transformer and have set the schema to Dynamic and the schema is set as "Schema From Schema Feature".  I am wondering if this has an impact on the first feature being used to dimension the dataset and is not written to the table. However this would be unusual because I have used these writer transformers before with more success. The noted difference I can surmise would be that the schema and features have been split up after the reader and I have used the schema to determine the coordinate system of the incoming dataset features to check that it conforms to the eventual conversion, then the features and schema are brought back together using a Joiner transformer.This works for other formats (CSV and TAB) wi

I have a polygon with a line inside. I want to create several polygons out of the big one by snipping the line every 1 Meter. See my image for reference: I want to cut the red line every meter and split the polygon at that point by using a perpendicular line to the red one. As a result I will get more than 10 polygons.

I have a dataset containing attributes, but I can't read the coordinate value anywhere? The coordinates in the FME data inspector are. How do I load them in the workspace? Thanks a lot This is a loading xml of the model aixm 5.1

Is there a possibility to convert an esri shapefile (geometry: polygon) to esri shapefile (geometry: multipatch) ?If I try this directly Reader Esri shapefile --> Write Esri shapefile (geometry: Multipatch) I have no geometry only the attributes. Does anyone know how to convert to multipatch?  

Can you please implement XQuery, i think this will be the best way. I want to save like in attachment.

I have created lod2 buodings by using the transformer BRepSolidBoundaryCreator.Beta. After this I used SurfaceonSurfaceOverlayer and tester (overlaps < 2) to remove internal walls. Afterwards I am using GeometryValidator to check if there are some errors inside. I have some Self Intersections:When I use "Self intersections in 2D" how can I check if the repaired geometries are without gaps? Could it be that during the repair some fixed polygons have gaps to the neighboring polygons? 

"Orientation" is desucribed under "Area: IFMEPolygon".Could you tell me how to extract it to attribute, or the way of filtering by the "Orientation" value.?

Hi!Is it possible to start/stop services on ArcGIS Server via FME-Server using AGS REST capabilities?Thanks.

Hello FMEers,Here's your Wednesday roundup of FME news... The FME 2022 RevealYou might have seen my FME 2022 Sneak Peeks, but yesterday we got the official reveal of FME 2022 from co-founders Don and Dale.  In case you missed it, the video shows a lot more of the new updates and functionality and is presented in the inimitable Don and Dale style. So go check it out. 12 New Features Blog PostBut if you prefer to read, rather than watch, the Safe Software blog has a new post that highlights 12 of the FME 2022 highlights. 

FME Desktop 2022: How to identify gaps between the polygons of same layer? In the screenshot below, I have a layer that has 6 polygons. It’s easy to identify the overlaps between these polygons with the “AreaOnArea” tool but how gaps can be identified?      

I have a base shapefile and a 3D model ( but the faces are separate and don't represent a single cube) I want it to combine as a single cube.

Thinking other cloud providers provide S3 compatible storage. In this specific case we have an on prem S3 Storage device. I'd like to be able to pull the data from a bucket on that device. With most other tools I can override the hosts that the s3 protocol is trying to connect to. It doesn't look like that's the case for the fme s3 downloader, or am I missing something.

Hello, When using a FeatureReader, is there a value you can enter into the Feature Types to Read parameter which is like 'read all'? The scenario would be to read everything, as the number of tables will change, and this is for an automated fme server workspace.Thanks, Owen

Hi,  From my reader I get an area feature (determined by the 'GeometryFilter'), but for my writer I need a Surface Feature. How do I convert an Are to a Surface?  Thanks a lot! Michel

I am using the MongoDB3 reader successfully on a cluster that is a part of Atlas subscription but when I change the database connector to another cluster with the same data model it will not return any features. There are no errors that I can see. 

Currently, within FME desktop me and my colleague, we are trying to convert a DGN file to a DWG file (realdwg). The DGN file has a size of roughly 90 MB. However just using simply a Reader and a Writer does result in a DWG of around 600 MB! I don't understand why the file became so big and ideally we would like to keep the size of the DWG lower than 100 MB.  Edit:Are there things which we can try to make the filesize of the DWG as small as possible and ideally below 100MB

I have experience with FME but only in writing from ArcGIS to CAD, and have never had any formal training, or the option for it. :(I have been tasked to write DGN V7 files to PDF. I do not have Bentley software or any experience in Microstation. This is not a fancy translation by any means, but I am having serious issues trying to determine what attributes to expose and how they correlate to the PDF writer. Are there any tutorials available or documents laying out this type of work flow?

Hello,We are drawing with Autocad. We want to use dynamic block with Custom part (Visibilité1 and Angle1 see PrintScreen 1). With FMe Desktop, is-it possible to have these values in a fields/attribute ? Our objectifs is to import data in a GIS with the values of Visibility to define some objects. Best Regards.Bernard Dinon Print Screen 1

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I have a lot of JSON-responses that wraps an base64-encoded excelfile (response.json). If I extract the data-part and try to decode it using BinaryDecoder (base64 to hex I guess). And then decode to ASCII, I get only a few chars that makes no sense. If I use an online-service (https://www.base64decode.org/) and add the data-part of the JSON-file (JSON response -.....) I get a perfect excel-file.  I can't seem to figure out the part that the online-service performs and the part I can't make FME do. Any help is appreciated. 

Hi. The image below is an extract from a much larger dataset. The image shows: Vegetation as the green polygonBuildings as hollow fill polygons The polygons are on two different datasets and have been built in such a way that the edge between the two polygons are 'edge to edge'. I need to be able to identify those buildings that 'touch' the vegetation polygon which I have identified with the red dot.It's been a while since I had to use this type of analysis and after searching the FME forum I'm still stuck. I guess could be overcomplicating my thought process. I know MapInfo has the functionality to do this but wanted to learn FME's approach. Any help would be very much appreciated.

For a project with an old projection I am trying to create multiple equal sized polygons within a bigger polygon. This is of importance because the historic projection uses intersections of distances to locate objects. So what I am trying to do is creating the polygons of equal distances into a larger polygon.  I currently use the 2D Grid accumulator for this. However, this makes use of an hull around the polygon I've created. Therefore, some of the created polygons are outside of the project area.  So, when looking at the image I would like to have 100 polygons of equal size in both directions tilted with the project area (Red line) and all within the project area. Let me know if anything is still unclear. Thanks in advance!

Does anyone know if it is possible to clip a point cloud to a boundary when reading into a workspace? Often I have the need to only work with part of a point cloud file and my full files are frequently up to 10GB (in las format), though usually smaller. I'm also reading up to 100 similarly sized files at once Basically, I would like to read only the section of a point cloud that's in a boundary to save on time/computing power/memory/etc. If this isn't possible would I be able to thin instead when I read to load less data? I'd like to avoid having to use an external program to clip/thin first if at all possible. I already do this

Hi!Using FME Desktop 20202.0, I cannot explain to myself why GeometryValidator transformer can miss a geo-issue when using ShapeFile format while can catch it for the same dataset in FileGDB format. Attaching screenshot. Any ideas?Thanks,Juanma,

Hi all,  I was wondering if anyone has any ideas to extract the top/base lines from vertical planes as a surface? It would be the lines in red/blue shown in the image below?  I've tried extracting the lines using a geometry part extractor but end up with triangular lines representing the surface. I wondered about maybe converting to a pointcloud and then taking the max/min values for points with the same X/Y as the planes are all vertical.  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!