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I have a bunch of points features in input and I would like to sort them by distance between each other so the next row in the excel sheet in output would be the point the closest to the previous row. How can I achieve that with FME?

In other words, there needs to be one FLOOR_ID with it's respective POINT and LINESTRING per row. Please see the screenshot below. Thanks

Hello, We are trying to run a batch file/windows powershell to change the floating license for using a different server name for FME Desktop 2019 edition. The reason is the users do not have any administrative permission on the local C drive - thus they cannot change manually. We would like to do this with a script and also where/how is this licensing information stored on the computer? Thanks !

Is it possible to write data into FME server temporary files folder? What could be the writer parameters or settings to try? Currently I have been testing to write into an existing file (.txt) in temporary files folder on FME server and it will not write any data, whereas when just using FME desktop and writing the file locally to my computer works just fine. My actual dream is that the user can upload data and the server runs it through and displays the result back in PHP.

Hi , I want my FME process to take '0' as 'null' for one of the attribute. Im totally new to FME , not really sure how can i proceed ? could anyone help?

Hello all !  I've a probleme with reading a DGN (V8) containing cell, I want to read the igds_level_name that contain the level name of the entity, i've succeeded into that but the value return by FME is not the right. In fact my cell are all in level named "RESEAU" but when I take a look on it on FME, it says that they are in DEFAULT level ... I think that FME read the level of the entity when it was design (in cel file) and not read the level of the current drawing ...  That is very very problematic for me, i need to have the right level information. Do you have any idea of what is the problem or how to resolved it ?  I attached a little sample if you want to observe  Regards,

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Hi I want to make a DSM from a pointcloud. I have used the rasterDEMgenerator and the imagerasterize. They both work and I get a good result, but only visual. When I load the DSM in Qgis and start to sample it, I get the color codes or something instead of the height.  I can't seem to find a way to change that.  This is how I I would like it: This is the result I get with: This is how I would like it: this is my result: This is my workbench:I did change the rasterinterpretationcoercer to gray8, so now I also get one band, but it's still not the height. The imagerasterizer has only color or intensity as input component...I think the rasterdemgenerator is based on the imagerasterizer I think so now I don't know if it's possible with one of these transformers. I also tried to replace the intensity with the Z value, but that didn't work. Does anybody know how to do it?    

Hello, i'm using a featurereader to catch all items created in another workspace (through a workspacerunner) however i keep getting an error: 2021-04-06 16:39:32| 4.0| 0.0|ERROR |Shapefile reader: Failed to open file 'C:\\TEMP\\pt000019.shp' for reading. Please ensure that the file exists and you have sufficient privileges to read it2021-04-06 16:39:32| 4.0| 0.0|ERROR |A fatal error has occurred. Check the logfile above for detailsI did try using a decelerator and/or featureholder, it doesn't do anything good. Though the files are there when the featurereader kicks in.However if i run the same benchmark a second time, everything works without error. Any advise?

I can’t use the pointcloudcoercer and then group on ”count” since it still need to be in pointcloud- format when writing to Xyz-fileformat. Do I really need to first write to xyz and then bring it back in to split it up? Thanks 

Hello !I'm actually trying to extract image (raster) from a PDF, but I'm having a black background. I've tried to extract as vector, but for FME, the pdf is a raster image with text as polygons and area box as line. I need the inside information from the pdf ( see attached image). Unfortunately, I'm not being able to have a proper raster representing the initial image. Should I perform an operation on resulting extracted image, so as to remove the black background. If yes, can someone help me.Thanks a lot! 

Hey all, as per the title, I seem to be struggling with this simple task! I have a spatial dataset that contains dozens of features, each with a 'Name' attribute field. In many cases, these features overlap, and I want to concatenate the overlapping 'Name' field values into a new single attribute field called, say, 'Names_Combined'. I've tried string concatenator and area on area overlay to no avail, is there a different transformer that would do the trick? Cheers all! Marty

 I have two database connections coming into the said workspace. I use a WHERE statement at the beginning of the processing to filter the data down so it runs in a reasonable amount of time. If anyone knows if there is a trick to get the WHERE statements to stay I would be grateful.   

Can anyone please mention which transformer is useful to identify undershoot

Hi everyone and happy easter! I am facing some difficulties with the LineBuilder Transformer, maybe someone has an idea how to solve this issue. I am generalizing lines, to calculate the lenght between linepoints per line feature. Our surveying data (especially lines) are generated based on linepoints. Anway, inbetween those linepoints lines (splines, arcs) often have vertexpoints, to display their curvature. I managed to give all linepoints the ID of the corresponding line feature (often linepoints carry geometry for more than 1 line, because they are intersection points). Now i need to build the simplifies lines for each line feature, but only using the linepoints as vertexpoints. In some cases it turns out well, but in other one I am achieving an interesting result (see attached pictures). Do you have any idea why my lines are in some cases built like this? Or how to avoid such results?Picture 1: Original line featurePicture 2: Linepoints of this line feature Picture 3: Result of th

Hi,I am looking to see if I can create a bounding box around an Esri Ascii Grid, but only around the points that have data (i.e. excluding any NO DATA values).I am aware I can use a Hull Replacer to create a bounding box around a dataset, but the main barrier is how to query the grid file itself and remove NO DATA values.I have tried to open the asc file in Notepad++, but it's huge and is unreadable due to it's size.Any suggestions would be appreciated.Cheers.

I'd like to build a workflow that creates a list of points for each alignment chain from an XML file. Is this possible? The points would be at each end of the alignment and a specified equidistant along the alignment. Is this possible?

Hello I have problem to get LAStools.lasnoise to work at all. I am reciving a lot of error.Howe is the right way of set this up?

Is it possible to export .obj file with multiple tiles with desire tile size (eg. 4096 x 4096) instead one giant texture file?

Hi, I am trying to download a csv with this url (https://waterinfo.rws.nl/api/Download/CSV?expertParameter=Waterhoogte___20Oppervlaktewater___20t.o.v.___20Normaal___20Amsterdams___20Peil___20in___20cm&locationSlug=Delfzijl(DLFZ)&timehorizon=-24,24) using FME. The csv contains data about the water level in the past 24 hours and the expected water level in the next 24 hours for a specific location. I have tried with the http caller but that doensn't work. Is there a way to download the csv using FME or to read the data in another way with a FME reader/transformer? In the attachment I have included the csv that should be the result of the download. I hope someone can help me.Peter

I have a 3D polygon shapefile that I would like to turn into a mesh so that I could simplify it

I have 6 columns of values that I want to assign to other columns within the same file, is there a transformer that can help me do this?

Hello everyone, We need to validate CAD file, in order to load into database. We want that the workspace runs by blocks. First of all, it needs to check geometry and, when this block returns zero errors, then (and only then) we'll check the labels. We'd thought to use "Total count" of StatisticCalculator and Tester to check "Total count", in order to check if we can pass to the second block, but it doesn't work, because when no errors returned, there isn't flux of data.

I am working with an excel file and there is a date attribute, where I want to filter the lines by the 4 possible dates, how can I do this? But I never know which dates are coming, it would have to be something dynamic. I've tried using the AttributeFilter but it doesn't work dynamically, even publicated parameters. Thank´s

I have a fairly simple workflow to move attributes from Esri File GDB to CSV file. First transformer is Coordinate Extractor. Second transformer is Attribute Reprojector (CO83-CF to LL84). Third transformer is Attribute Concatenator to combine two attributes to one value. Fourth step is the CSV writer with manual fields. Currently, I only have a few fields mapped from the Concatenator to the CSV. After running, some of the attributes populate into the CSV whil others don't. I previewed the data at the concatenator and all attributes are present. Why are some attributes not writing to the CSV writer?  Thank in advance for your assistance.