FME Form

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! 

Hi;How and in which transformers is it possible to implement the documented mathematical function if() in a text or arithmetic editor?.As a result, I always get <null>.Thank you.

Execution of statement `SELECT SDO_VERSION FROM DUAL' did not succeed; error was `ORA-00904: "SDO_VERSION": invalid identifier' -- this is the error I am getting everytime, not sure if oracle has some problem in fme backend, seems to be working in db directly

Hey, I have a Server App setup using my FME server where it allows users to select a location on an interactive map, and enter details into a text box.  I would love to expand this to also allow the user to upload n images to be associated with this form submission. I have been looking for a tutorial for guidance, but they all seem to be setup around the user submitting a document like a CSV with data to be extracted and processed, mine is simpler than that, I just want to 'move' the images to a resource directory for future reference, but this 'move' process is where I get stuck. EDIT: So after stepping away from my computer and coming back I think I have worked out the process, but the output file is 'corrupt' and the image cannot be viewed. Is there anything specific I need to have setup so that files are output exactly as they are uploaded? 

I have tried to add feature reader after the WFS reader, it did not work. I then tried to use python caller to unzip the shapefile first. But it looks like the zipped shapefile gets deleted after wfs reader finishes. Has anyone successfully used SHAPE-ZIP as WFS reader output format? how do you get that data into the next step?   

FME Desktop 2022: How to specify the type of created attribute field (chr, double, integer, etc.)? I couldn’t figure out how to specify the type of the attribute field In the screenshot below, I created the “AreaPercent” attribute but couldn’t figure out how to specify its type. However, as it’s written in a feature class geodatabase, it’s considered as “chr”. How this can be managed?         

Let's say I have data with an attribute "A" which is an integer. I want to process all incoming features with the same attribute the same way (example: check for overlapping geometries within that group of features). But I do not know beforehand what that number will be. How do I do that in FME? Looking for something like AttributeFilter, but with unknown attributes.I suspect the "group-by" option can do this for some tools, but I'm not sure how to apply it for this problem.

FME Desktop 2022: How to dissolve based on a particular field and then to get the COUNT of the dissolved features as well as the FIRST value of other field? For example, in the screenshot below, I wanted to dissolve based on the “autocad_color” field and then to COUNT the features that have been dissolved while taking the FIRST value of the “landuse_arabic” field. This can be done easily in Pro with one command (dissolve) The data is attached           The data is attached

Are FME Desktop Licences tied to IP Address of the machine or Hardware Configuration?

FME Desktop 2022: How two columns of points are transferred as two fields in the attribute table of polygon layer? As per the screenshot (and the attached data): 1)    I have a data that is generated in point layer and polygon layer2)    Each feature of the point layer lies next to a feature from the polygon layer Now, how the two columns of the point layer are transferred as two fields in the attribute table of the polygon layer?        

FME Desktop 2022: How to filter all records based on the “null” value of particular field? In the screenshot, I couldn’t figure out how to filter all records that have “null” values in the “ump_layers”    

FME Desktop 2022: How to add comma separator (thousands separator) and specify the number of decimal places? I couldn’t figure out how to add comma separator (thousands separator) and specify the number of decimal places as they appear in the table      

transformers

I did a clean installation of the software as administrator but the startup screen hangs on loading transformers. Have anybody any idea? See screenhot attached