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I have a pipe-network with an inside and outside diameter (they are empty inside) how can I create those pipes. Bufferer only gives me solid pipes. The data are 3d shapefile lines.

Hello!Can comebody tell me what is the solution, for me to be able to color line with respect to Y axis values. I want to have something like in the attached image below:Thank you in advance.

Can I change the start or end height of a line separate from each other?The 3D-Forcer changes the height of the complete line. For example: I managed to change my 2D lines to 3D with the Surfacedraper now I want to add to the height -1m over the complete line. 

From an Excel that has the columns name, alias and type we can create the scheme for a geodatabase. 

So my xsd file says that geometry name must be <gd:centralLine>. However, while writing in GML 2.1.2 Writer using application schema I get <gml:lineStringProperty> as a result. How to force that my geometry is named as in xsd file?I've tried GeometryPropertySetter - no success I'm using FME 2016 

Is it possible to create a table schema with a predefined number of empty records on the fly?

Hello FME'ers,It's on our blog, so it's official: we are running an FME Hackathon over the coming weeks. You can find the full details of the event in this knowledgebase article.We're hoping that this is going to be a fun and worthwhile event, with a lot of great projects and some money raised for a mental health charity (we're making a donation for every user who takes part).This thread is for general discussion, sharing of ideas, and forming up teams if you wish. We're hoping that you'll band together to produce team efforts: maybe a work team, or a team based on location, or common interests, or just randomly get together!And if you need any FME advice during the contest, we can perhaps pair you up with a Sa

It's Wednesday my dudes, and so that means the weekly quiz answers.This week you were competing against Marc DeRosier from Safe, expert in Shapefile and Excel, but how would he do on Server, XML webinars, and "ancient" FME versions?Let's see...Answers1) Which of these is NOT an option in the Shapefile output dimension parameter?2D3D 2D + Measures3D + MeasuresDimension From First FeatureThe answer is that plain 3D is not an option:I'm not sure why, but I suspect it's because the allowed types in a Shapefile are (for points) Point (X,Y), PointM (X,Y,M) and PointZ (X,Y,Z,optional M). So 2D and 2D + Measures are different types (Point/PointM) but 3D features will always be PointZ, whether or not you have measures.Marc's Answer: 3D + Measur

Dear FME community.I've DynamoDB DataBase. In this DB, directly in AWS I can make a request (for example I can select only data between two dates) :It's necessary for don't scan all the table.In FME I can see the equivalent of the classical query in DynamoDB base on the index :LikeThe problem is, in this case, I must choose one value before to choose an other filter.Do you know how can I make a filter lika the "analyser" in FME ?Thanks.

Hello FME'ers,In your quiz this week you're up against another of our developers: Marc DeRosier.Marc works for the PVR team (you know what PVR stands for, right?) and is responsible for formats such as Shapefile and Excel.In other words, his are the formats that most users make use of! Talk about a responsible position! From a quick search of Slack, Marc's interest seem to be DnD and 3D Printing. If you have similar interests, hopefully you'll get to meet him at next year's FMEUC.As always, the quiz is here: https://demos-safe-software.fmecloud.com/fmeserver/apps/FMEQuiz

Good afternoon FME'ers,This week's Safe challenger was Annabelle Glass; Product Owner for FME Desktop as well as owner of a "noodle horse" (greyhound).So let's see what the answers for the quiz are, and how Annabelle did in comparison to you all...Answers1) What new functionality appears in the Tester in FME 2020.1The ability to select cached values in the expressionThe ability to convert a Tester into a TestFilterThe ability to test individual raster cellsThe ability to test Server internet speedThe ability to test cricket scoresThis one really is a game-changer for FME:FME's always been a model-based tool. You set up the model and then run the translation. But now... now we are starting to make use of the data inside the workspace authoring tool. So this is

I have a network file which has 100KMs of road(line) segments. When I dissolve it based on name I find there are so many small segments in between which has different name. e.g. Asian Highway is of 100 KMs but after dissolve I get 90Kms Asian Highway & remaining 10 KMs(Not continuous) in between has different name(e.g. ABD Road, xyz Street etc) how to find these segments only?

Hello everyone,It's been so long since we had a Safer win against the users, but I have high hopes this week with your challenger Annabelle Glass.Annabelle works for our product management team. That team has five members to manage different parts of FME and Annabelle's responsibility is for FME Desktop. As Product Owner for FME Desktop she gets to review all of the requests for new functionality, and work with the development and business teams to decide what will go into the product.So if you want a specific new function in FME Desktop, you now know Annabelle is the person to be nice to!At home, Annabelle has a pet greyhound - or "noodle horse", as we say on the fun_safe_pets Slack channel.Anyway, here's the quiz link. Let's see how you can do: https://demos-safe-software.fmecloud.com/fmeserver/apps/FMEQuiz

Hey FME'ers,Here are this week's quiz results. You were up against Chris, a long-time developer at Safe. He knows anything you need to know about the mechanics of FME on different platforms, but did he know the sort of odd questions that I ask?Let's see...Answers1) The Workbench option to get rid of unwanted temporary files is called what?Purge Temporary FilesDelete Temporary FilesRemove Temporary FilesGet Rid of Temporary FilesErase Stuff That You Don't NeedI'm not sure why we chose the word "purge" but that is the answer:Chris' Answer: Purge Temporary Files (Correct)2) Safe Software recently became a partner of which company?SnowflakeWaterfallIceCubeEarthquakeGasbagIt was Snowflake,

Hello everyone,Here is today's quiz and this week your challenger is Chris Scrimgeour. Chris is a developer on the platforms team at Safe, once called the PB&J team because they work on Building FME on different Platforms, especially for Java-based formats (if I remember correctly).So Chris makes sure that FME performs the same, regardless of the platform, but I know he is a particular expert in Linux systems. I'm sure he's also a board game fan, because we once had a conversation about what FME: The Board Game would look like!He's worked with Safe for quite a long time now, so I'm expecting a good score from him! As always, the link is: https://demos-safe-software.fmecloud.com/fmeserver/apps/FMEQuiz

Hi folks,This week your challenger was Dennis from our Technical Publications team. Let's see if you could keep up your winning streak against the Safers:Answers1) Safe Software recently gained which accreditation?ISO 3103 (Preparation of Tea)ISO 18012 (IT Guidelines for Product Interoperability)ISO 21931 (Sustainability in Building Construction)ISO 27001 (Information Security Management)ISO 30190 (Digitally Recorded Media for Information Interchange)We are now certified for information security, which means all your data is safe with Safe!We aren't certified for making tea; at least not for official tasting purposes. The product interoperability standard is more for home appliances than spatial data and - although we are very environmentally conscious - we don't hold building construction sustainability qualifications (though the builders who constructed our new office may well have done).

FME Desktop 2019.2.3.2 keeps crashing when uploading to FME Server

Hi, I am trying to convert a 3D structure into a point cloud. For this I am following the instructions found here: https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/1031/creating-point-clouds-from-3d-models-or-raster-dat.html  However, whenever I am trying to load my personal *.skp model the following error occurs:  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------'SKP' reader was created successfullyCreating reader for format: Trimble SketchUpTrying to find a DYNAMIC plugin for reader named `SKP'FME API version of module 'SKP' matches current internal version (3.8 20200115)The dataset 'C:\\Users\\linus\\OneDrive\\RSC Master\\Master Thesis\\sketchup_file\\Subaru+Forester

Hello FME'ersI'm back with the quiz. Did you miss me? Or is Jen better? Or should I perhaps not ask questions that I wouldn't like the answer to?!Either way, your Safe opponent this week is Dennis Langdeau.Dennis' official title at Safe is Technical Publications Analyst; so he's involved in documentation, but he also is responsible for setting up company-wide online meetings (like the monthly developer demos) and making recordings of them. That makes Dennis a vital part of keeping us in touch and informed, for those of us who work at home on a permanent basis.I also just found out that Dennis is a fan of the "Cuban Lunch" - which is actually a form of snack bar that I think originated in Winnipeg, Canada:Anyway, wherever you are in the world, and whatever time of day it is, now's your chance to take on De

Hey, I am currently running this workspace runner with an emailer sending me an email if it fails.Unfortunately my emails are not very valuable as it is a wall of text. I do love the way the translation log is formatted, so I am curious, can I instead of outputting this _failure_message, output the child workspace translation log? I would find that much more valuableCurrent email format which I am not happy with: Is anyone doing something similar, but providing more useful output upon workspace failure? Thanks heaps.

Hello FME'ersIn the week that we hosted a webinar all about the Shapefile format, it's appropriate to have a question-of-the-week on the same subject.Question of the WeekThis week's question came from a user on Live Chat and concerns how to read Shapefiles nested inside multiple folders inside a compressed Zip file.Q) I have a URL for a “zipped” shapefile. However, the shapefile is actually nested two folders into the zip file. If I download this file from the browser and set the Shapefile reader dataset to: /Users/[username]/Downloads/MajorRoads.zip/**/**/*.shp ...then this is read in properly by FME. However when applying a similar logic to a URL: http://[server]

This seems really simple but I cannot figure it out. I have a linear feature connected to a point with a triangle on the line which shows the direction. How can I determine if the line is headed away from or towards the point? I need to know if the triangle follows the line to the point, I have other ones I need to check that will not be a straight line to the point. Thank you in advance!

About to benchmark various AWS EC2 instances with the same workspace in FME Desktop 2020.Looking for peoples experience.Is CPU better or is RAM better or GPU.Give me your advice

Weekly Quiz Results Apologies for the late results, given the late start to the quiz this week. Hopefully with Mark’s return next week things shall return to a normal schedule - hoping he’s had plenty of time to think up some new questions for you all! Based on the feedback on Twitter and what some Safers have messaged me, I think this was a fairly easy week. But here are the answers, in case you didn’t get all of the questions right.Mark actually made this week's quiz questions, so perhaps if he wants to take vacation again this summer I’ll have a go at making them a little tougher.  So, did you manage to beat @trentatsafe?Answers 1 What object on FME Server stores workspaces, data, transformers, formats and templates?RepositoryResources FolderUser LibraryWorkspace VaultThe Safe Safe Straight f

Replace values '1' in column by values > 1 in the same columnSo, how can i replace 1 by 2,5? 2,5 is dynamic...