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Hi All,I am just starting with FME and so far it is amazing! I downloaded a CityGML file for the sidewalks of NYC (see attached) and want to export it to Unreal Engine. ( I already did the same with another cityGML file and it worked great) Yet with this particular model (it is 800 mb, so I have to use google drive link here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ov3Y_y2IVs_MPiazpZO1o2xNnMWiTEju?usp=sharing ) it exports empty file and the geomerty is not showing up in FME Workbench, while I can see it in FME Inspector. At this point I am pretty desperate and cannot find any solution on how to address this..Please let me know if you know how to resolve it! I really appreciate your time and help!    

Hey - I have to transform a lot of DWG Files into a custom coordiante system. The transformation works, but I have a problem doing so when a file has external references (in this case the reference points to another DWG in the same directory, which therefore has to get transformed as well). Following my first thought, I tried to transform all files but leave the insert points for the references untouched, but this didn't work. Even when discarding the RealDWG reader Option "Read External References" or trying to filter out everything that has the value "autocad_xref" for autocad_entity with a test filter and letting these objects bypass the transformation process in my workbench, I'm getting the same result: The insert points for the references are transformed too and therefore seem to be shifted double the distance in comparison to other objects. Do you have any advices for me how to solve this problem? Thanks a lot! :-)

When trying to use the SQL Azure SQL Database (JDBC) database connection, can that be used with the ActiveDirectoryPassword authentication type? I have a service account in the Azure Active Directory, but that is not the user our FME Server runs with, to be able to use the ActiveDirectoryIntegrated option. I have successfully used FME Desktop with my personal account as well as the service account (using RunAs) with the ActiveDirectoryIntegrated authentication. Any help you can provide would be very much appreciated.

Hello! I need to open a raster and use it as a reference to create a larger one (a few inches bigger on the height of the initial image). This procedure must be done for a set of images of varying sizes and not georeferenced.Later on combining the two files, the original and the other that was created (I thought use the RasterMosaicker), I would have an additional blank area at the bottom of the image where I could add a text box. I'm having trouble with:- creating larger images that have as reference a set of images of varying sizes- adding the text box with message in the fixed position (the bottom border that were added in each resulting image). Does anyone know any transformer or transformer set to solve this problem? Thanks for help!

Now i receive errors, as a workaround i tried to save each web page as html file, how can i bulk read inside info of 

Hello !  I got a script wich is working under FME Desktop but I'd like to make it an executable. I know that this is possible but as soon as I have to set some user parameters manually when the script is executed, is it still possible ?Moreover, the script uses two different postgis DB (One for reading AND writing, the other only for reading, don't know if this information is useful tho) If you have any information on deploying a batch/exe that prompts for user inputs and keeps DB logins please let me know 🙂 Thank you in advance,Regards,An fme rookie

FME Desktop: filtering based on two fields fails to bring the expected results, In the screenshot below, I wanted to filter all features that don’t take the 11 or 10 colors and exist in “UMP_Background_Hatches”. I couldn’t figure out why the feature with 11 color is filtered                

Hi, i'm trying to use the to rename the attributes. What i want to to is replace a part of the attributes with the values of a string but nothing seems to happen.If i use a regular string (f.e. "_1987") it works but if i use the expression @Value(_listJ{0}.J) nothing happens. Is this allowed? can i use a list in the field string?

I have a SHAPE-dataset with lines that I turn into polygones with the bufferer. Some of the lines are on top of each other, but that was never a problem so far. But now I have a new bunch of lines where for just a few, the bufferer only puts out one of the overlaying buffered areas insead of both. This only happens with about 10 lines while it works fine for the other 300.So far a could not find a common trait for those where it doesn't work compared where it does work.The lines are normal lines with no self-intersections (according to the GeometryValidator)Does anybody have a clue, why this might be happending?Thank you!

Hi all.I would very much like to trick my FME 2020.2 into using the 2021.2 Data Inspector instead of its own.The reason is that there is a bug in DI 2020.2 wrt. background maps, which is solved in 2021.2, and our national base map repository has just switched to another service, that makes the base maps unusable in DI 2020.2.I still need to use Workbench 2020.2 , as our FME servers are still running version 2020.2.Has anyone tried this, and if so, how to do it ?I've looked at the registry, but is not sure whether this is used for this.

FME Desktop 2020: The “clipper” tool fails to generate the expected result, In the screenshot below, I wanted to clip the blue color from the red color. As there is not intersection between these two colors, the result should be the red color itself. However, the result not exactly the red color. What could be the issue here?                  The dat

Here are some examples:original data497.2594497509648497.3865495.31495.29expected result:497.2497.4495.4495.2And I have another case where I want to round my list of numbers to the closest of four options: integer, ending with .25 or ending with .5 or ending with .75. my examples:original data497.2594497509648497.8865495.77495.45expected result:497.25498495.75495.5thank you.

I'm using the new SchemaScanner before writing shapefiles. Until now, I was using a User Parameter to specify the Dataset (destination folder) of the shapefile.  I'd like to switch to an attribute to specify the path or just '$(DIR_output_folder)/something-else' but I'm getting an error: FeatureWriter_4 (WriterFactory): MULTI_WRITER: No dataset was specified for MULTI_WRITER_DATASET or FeatureWriter_4_0_DATASET or SHAPEFILE_DATASETSchemaScanner_3_Output_-1_493_Player (RecorderFactory): MULTI_WRITER: No dataset was specified for MULTI_WRITER_DATASET or FeatureWriter_4_0_DATASET or SHAPEFILE_DATASETTranslation FAILED with 2 error(s) and 0 warning(s) (0 feature(s) output) It's working fine without the SchemaScanner, but not with it. How can I set up the dataset properly? Is it an encoding issue?  

Hi, I am reading data from SDE and doing some joins and field mapping and I am writing data into my SDE version. I don't mean to alter Global Ids, in the destination but it changed when I write my output to the destination. i have set Preserve Global Ids to yes in the wirter parameter as well. Any support and idea to get this achieved would be appreciated! 

FME Desktop 2022: The “clip” tool fails to produce the expected result,  In the screenshot below, I wanted to clip 14 polygons from 1 polygon (the 14 polygons are contained in the 1 polygon). The expected result should be one polygon that represents all what is outside the 14 polygons. However, the clip result is shown in the 3rd screenshot What could be the issue here? The data and workbench are attached         

FME Desktop 2022: Disaggregating two polygons gets them unexpectedly three, In the screenshot below, I got two polygons. However, as they are disaggregated I got three while they should remain two in this case as they are physically two from their native source with no reason to become three. What could be the issue here?                    

How to get center point of rectangular or square ?i need to extract the coordinates of center point from any shapeas shown as pic .FME 2020Thanks in advance

Is it possible to set up a reader to have a user parameter? I want the user to be able to input a shapefile of their choice but I can't seem to find an option to have a user parameter in a reader.

I have an SDE geodatabase. I need to load a shapefile and replace all of the data in a layer with the new data coming in. For example there is a roads layer in the geodatabase and once a month I get a new roads layer. I'm looking to just replace the entire layer and add the new data that I have received in a shapefile format. Is there an easy way to do this?

FME Desktop 2022: How to use the same “reader” multiple times in the workbench without repeating adding it? In the screenshot below, I got an excel file as a reader. I need to use it multiple times in the workbench. How can I do that without repeating adding it each time?           

I have a set of points (>100) and I want to calculate a cost raster along a network fpor each point. For 1 point I can do this by:point > netyworkcostcalculator>surfacemodeller. However when I use multiple points the networkcostcalculator only outputs disconnected features (also when using 'group by' point ID). But even if it would have an output, the output does not contain an pointID attribute, so I can not use the group by option in the surface modeller. Is there an easy way to calculate a cost raster for more then 1 point?  

I have a problem with the attributetransposer in a workspace that has a couple of httpcallers upstream. In case all the httpcallers get a rejected call (handled with an emailer) no input is going into the AttributeTransposer. I then see the following error showing in the log:AttributeTransposer Input Input Collector (TeeFactory): Cloned 0 input feature(s) into 0 output feature(s)AttributeTransposer_Input1509999976 Input Splitter (TeeFactory): Cloned 0 input feature(s) into 0 output feature(s)AttributeTransposer_ParameterFetcher (TeeFactory): Cloned 0 input feature(s) into 0 output feature(s)Python Exception <TypeError>: Input must be a string or unicode.Traceback (most recent call last):  File "<string>", line 86, in closeTypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:Traceback (most recent call last):  File "<string>", line 99,

I have a layer that was created with the tiler transformer and rather than column (0 - n) I want to covert them to an alpha equivalent i.e. 0 => A, 25 => Z, 26 => AA etc Does anyone have a approach for this please?

Hi FME:ers!My task is to find a way to create polygons at the bottom of each solid geometry classes. The created polygons should follow the solid geometry classes bottom edges (x, y and z). I have marked a dark line in the picture for more understanding.  

Currently I run a testfilter that checks the name of a fme_feature_type which has layer names from the drawing. So basically my testfilter is full of if statements like "if @value(fme_feature_type) LIKE %P-STM-MH" and output each if statement to its own output port (Ie 'Manholes' or 'Storm Mainline'). from there i run an attribute creator on each output. the attributecreator looks at the field_name and i add it to a field in my shapefile but named differently. So if field_name is STM-MH its added as an attribute in my shapefile as 'Storm Manhole'Is there a more efficient way of doing this vs what im doing? I feel like I'll have a lot of layers and there for a lot of outputs where I might need to run 10+ attribute creators.If theres a better way of doing this I'd love to know it. Thanks