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Hey folks, I am brand new to FME script writing. I have for example, a DWG with sewer, water and electrical lines. The layer names are usually all the same except with unique numbers. eg. HET-32434-WATor HET-23422-WAT-SERor HET-232345-ELECetc I am trying to output each of the categories into their own shape files so I can simply point my script to a dwg and run it. I have no problem doing this manually by adding the DWG into my workspace where it asks me what layers to load into the workspace and I can point those to an attribute creator and output a shapefile. That works fine, I am just trying to figure out how I can have it look in a DWG drawing I specify for the layer names like %WAT% to output all my waterlines into a shapefile. Hopefully I made sense here. Thanks

Hello! I'm new to FME and I'm wondering if it is possible to integrate PDFs into a CityGML model (LOD1). I need to link a different PDF for each building of the 3D model. Can anybody help me? Thanks in advance

Hello, To automate some of my tasks using FME, I'm currently trying to make FME download some .7z files and extract their content (composed of subfolders, txt files, pdf and shp). I managed to make FME download the archive and store it into a temporary folder just as I wanted but know I want to make FME extract the content of the archive so I can then sort it's content (I want to go inside the subfolders and only extract shp files, then work on them). I've already tried to use some transformers like "ZipExtractor" or "Unzipper" but they don't seem to make what I'd like... If someone know a way to extract and sort zipfile's content using FME please help me ! Regards,Andy METAYER

FME Desktop 2022: “AttributeCreator” fails to copy a field into another using the arithmetic editor, In the screenshot below, I wanted to copy the “fme_text_string” field to the “F1” but appears not work except for the first record. What could be the issue here? The data and workbench are attached     

I’m trying to build something to automatically compare control points for mobile laser scanning/lidar to the final point cloud to validate it (and also validate other point clouds that I haven’t collected, but where I have overlapping control).  Generally, for this type of point cloud I control it in another software package using 3D control points mainly, but I do collect extra independent ones for validation that are suitable for comparison of the three different planes. Such as height, along (front/back), or across (left/right) compared to the direction the scanner is movingIn the past I have done this manually in another software package which is quite time consuming. I’d like to make something to do it automatically. The result I need to make are some separate statistics of the differences in easting, northing, height that I can use in reports.  I can work out a way to compare the vertical (By making a clipped cloud around each control point, then a surface, and then comparing the

There is no log file written to the set output folder (as a parameter) when running the workspace from FME Server. The FME server version is FME(R) 2019.2.3.2 (20200320 - Build 19825 - WIN32). What could be the reason?

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) with which I have used the same logical design.The cached rec

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.  Some of the items are all about Server, which I didn't cover that well in the sneak peeks, so you'll find them especially interesting. The Amazing ClipperThe Clipper is listed on that blog post under "Specific Transformer and Format Improvements":Clipper: New interface, parameters, algorithms, and better performance all around.While that's true, the lack of space in blog posts means it doesn't really give the full picture. That's why we're running a full webinar on the 

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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