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pqtkha
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How can split polygon (rivers/roads) into branch?

How can split polygon into branch like this image? Each branch showed by a number. And the split positions are yellow lines like this Everyone has any ideas to solve this my issue, please show with me! Thank you so much!

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geomancer
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arash_hokm
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arash_hokmContributor
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merge multiple lines into one line

Hallo FME community, I have many lines in a shapefile and some lines are connected to each other. I want to bring all lines that are connected together into one feature. I would be grateful if someone could give me an idea.

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crystalatsafe
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armando_amador
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armando_amadorContributor
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Timezone offset does not match system offset.

When using Sharepoint Online Connector, this error message appears "timezone offset does not match system offset: -18000 != -216000. Please, check your config files." I'm from Mexico timezone, how can this be solved?

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bradr
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aguan
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aguanContributor
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OData reader fails to retrieve feeds.

I have a vendor OData feed URL. It works fine in my Power BI, but fails to retrieve the feed in FME desktop (2020.1.3). Below shows the error. I am using the same credential in both Power BI and FME user authentications. Python Exception <KeyError>: 'name' A fatal error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details Failed to obtain any schemas from reader 'ODATA' from 1 datasets. This may be due to invalid datasets or format accessibility issues due to licensing, dependencies, or module loading. See logfile for more information UniversalReader -- readSchema resulted in 0 schema features being returned Reader Parameter(0) = > https://data.woodmac.com/query/upstream_weekly/imp-met/odata/field_geospatial_summary < Reader Parameter(1) = >AUTHENTICATION< Reader Parameter(2) = >Basic< Reader Parameter(3) = >USERNAME< Reader Parameter(4) = >allen.guan<at>bhp.com< Reader Parameter(5) = >PASSWORD< Reader Parameter(6) = >********< Reader Parameter(7) = >VERSION_HEADER< Reader Parameter(8) =

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nischal
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ling55
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Connection issue to MS SQL

Hey guys, I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask, but I'm at a loss as to what to do here. I'm still quite new to FME and have tried looking for solutions to this problem that I am having. I have read this https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/281/failed-to-connect-using-sql-server-2012-native-cli.html and installed SQL Server Native Client 2012 on my machine, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50402, which wasn't installed before, but I am still running into the same issue. Details from the translation log: 2021-06-05 13:14:39| 0.2| 0.2|INFORM|FME 2020.2.2.0 (20210111 - Build 20817 - WIN64)2021-06-05 13:14:40| 1.2| 0.0|INFORM|Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit (Build 19041)2021-06-05 13:14:40| 1.2| 0.0|INFORM|FME Platform: WIN64 2021-06-04 08:28:55| 45.6| 0.0|INFORM|Creating reader for format: Microsoft SQL Server Non-Spatial2021-06-04 08:28:55| 45.7| 0.0|INFORM|Trying to find a DYNAMIC plugin for reader named `MSSQL_ADO'2021-06-04 08:28:55| 45.7

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braggken
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so_much_more
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so_much_moreSupporter
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FME in schedule task start FME but wont run WB

I am trying to configure to run a FME workbench as in Schedule task. The batch file itself run fine. But something is happening when its run from Task Schedule. It seem to start a workbech, but it is not executing the workbench. This is the stout output i manage to log. FME 2022.2.5.0 (20230329 - Build 22795 - WIN64) FME Database Edition (floating) Permanent License. Machine host name is: xxxxxx Operating System: Microsoft Windows Server 2022 64-bit (Build 20348) Copyright (c) 1994 - 2022, Safe Software Inc. Safe Software Inc. When i run the batch file through cmd it start logging "reading" etc after the first I assume is a license check initial License check. I have tried to multiple things already Set the "Start in" option to be the directory where the bat file (and workbenches) are located absolute path set the first line of batch file to cd into the directory of the workbench I am running the batch file using the system admin account I am running out of ideas of what it can be wron

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dbklingdom
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lance
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lanceContributor
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Is there any way to use FME Desktop to square (true) polygon corners to 45 or 90 degrees?

I have about 500,000 building footprints that are collected to varying degrees of accuracy. I would like to true these footprints so the corners are either 45 or 90 degrees on the polygons as depicted below. Is there a means to do this using FME desktop? The corners are typically within +/- 5 to 10 ground units of being true. Before: After:

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geomancer
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bigapplerizzi19
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How to generate TINrelief of CityGML from TIN generated by TINgenerator

I generated TIN by TINgenerator. I would like to procedure to generate TINrelief of CityGML from the TIN.

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model_art
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demix
demix
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Web Connections - Access Token Response as XML

Hello everyone, I've recently been doing some work using HTTPCallers to connect and authenticate to an API. The basic flow is that the first HTTPCaller hits the login endpoint. The credentials (username & password) are passed as application/x-www-form-urlencoded values. An XML response is sent which contains a Session ID. This is then passed through to all subsequent HTTPCallers via the header as Cookie - ASessionID=<Our session ID>. This all works very well, but I've been asked if I could move the whole authentication part into a nice secure easy to use Web Connection. I've done similar before, so thought this would be a fairly easy task, but alas, I've hit a bit of a wall when it comes to the Access Token Response. Unfortunately, the login call to this particular API only returns XML and will not return a lovely JSON response for FME to parse and handle. I was under the impression that FME should be able to look at a JSON or an XML response, but I'm having no luck. Is there some way

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amgaad
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jonvelco
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jonvelcoContributor
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Read directory of SDE connection files and list database and all feature classes, tables, etc. to create an inventory

My goal is to read a directory of SDE connection files and then list out the database name and all the feature class names, tables, geometry types, etc. associated with each connection file. I've reviewed the articles below and can't figure out how to set the Feature Types to Read parameter since it only shows tables/feature classes from the one Reader as a Resource SDE connection. This isn't an issue if there is only one database but when there are multiple (like what I'm trying to do), it doesn't seem to work. Is this possible or is there another way to get this info? Here are the articles I've been using: https://community.safe.com/s/article/how-to-read-all-feature-classes-from-multiple-esri https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q000080hHCASA2/read-multiple-sde-connect-file https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q00008qzlJhSAI/how-to-dynamically-read-entire-schema-of-sde-geodatabase

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jonvelco
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gisbradokla
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gisbradoklaEnthusiast
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PERFORMANCE OF FILE AND DIRECTORY PATH

If i run this command in the command prompt (OS) it takes about 15 seconds. M:\\Survey\\'COGO DATA>DIR /S *.DWG If I run the Directory and File Pathnames Reader with essentially the same parameters it takes 5 hrs! Why can't fme do this any faster?

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albinepro
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mark2atsafe
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mark2atsafeSafer
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Question of the Week: Dynamic (but Hacky) Updates to Published Parameter Choices

Today I'm breaking my rule of never manually (or automatically) editing a workspace file, in order to dynamically update a choice-type user parameter.Question of the Week This question was asked by @philippeb who needs to send a list of names to a survey choice field. Q) Our employees fill a weekly survey about their health and their kids going to summer camp activities. The survey [fields] change in time, depending on the kids that subscribed. The subscribed kids are exported into an Excel file every week. I thought to read the file with FME and push the kids into the survey every week. That way the list of kids in the survey could change without our help. And the kid (or his parent) could select his name to fill the survey. The issue is that we don't know any survey platform able to change automatically from a script. Do you know if any kind of platform could change when FME pushes new values into it? A) I know of a platform that could be used to provide a weekly survey: FME Server!

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mark2atsafe
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mrdado12345
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REVIT TO CESIUM - Cylinder conversion error

Hello, I have a REVIT file which contains some cylindrical objects (e.g. pipes) and when I convert the model to cesium, it creates hexagonal shaped pipes instead of cylindrical ones. Is this intentional or can I bypass this behaviour somehow? NOTE: The Revit model is offset according to it's Reference Point. Also, the Data Inspector shows the cylinders correctly where it is an aggregate geometry with with many many IFMEFaces.

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itay
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bokkie
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Is this an error in the training materials about the VertexCreator?

Hi Team, I'm doing the training for FME Professional, using FME Desktop 2022.2 and am now at https://safe.my.trailhead.com/content/safe/modules/turn-coordinates-into-geometry/exercise-turn-coordinates-into-geometry-using-the-vertexcreator-transformer . The last question on this page is about VertexCreator making a line instead of a point geometry. The question gives the impression that creating a line using this transformer is "a feature" from that transformer (and values the answer given accordingly), while the page https://community.safe.com/s/article/Known-Issue-VertexCreator-creates-lines-instead-of-points clearly shows that this is a glitch that was corrected in later versions. I suppose it was never intended for the VertexCreator transformer to create line instead of point geometry at whatever Mode setting? Besides, in FME Desktop 2022.2 I can't reproduce the "feature" anyway (which makes sense as the "error" was supposed solved in recent versions of FME Desktop. Can you please a

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guelormaloudi
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killphil84
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killphil84Participant
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Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodb) Writer crashing - Error Number -2147216072

I'm running a workbench on FME Server 2017 and after running through some transformers, the data should be writteninto a database. I'm getting an error ans this message: An error occurred while flushing the cursor for the table/feature class 'xxx.yyy.zzz'. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147216072'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {Underlying DBMS error [[Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0][SQL Server]Arithmetic overflow error converting float to data type numeric.] [xxx.yyy.zzz]} Am I right to assume that the error is possibly invoked by an incompatible value? How can I find out which value is causing the error? Is there a possibility to retrieve more information to start the search for the cause of this error?

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sam.delore
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meyerlor
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How can i make a raster reader "Optional"

I have several types of rasters in my folders (ecw, png, tiff..). Not all folders i want to process contain all of the types. In my workspace i created one reader for each type, but when one type is not available, i can not launch the workspace. How can i make a reader optional so it will accept no input data?

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s.jager
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mark2atsafe
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mark2atsafeSafer
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Question of the Week: Separating Straight from Curved

This week I looked at this question on the community. "I have a 100 ft line that curves and then turns back into a straight line. How can I use FME to only gather the straight line after the curve only. I basically want to cut out the curve and only grab the line after the curve." This isn't too difficult, but what's interesting is the contrast with last week's question . Last week (click the link to check it out) I took a linear feature like this, created a list of its vertices, and processed those numbers directly. This week I could do the same, but instead I'm going with a spatial approach. In short, I'm going to divide the line into two-part segments, calculate each segment's angle (bearing or azimuth), and test how much each segment differs from the previous one. Preparing the Data The first step is to prepare our data by chopping it into two-point lines. The alternative is to just extract the coordinates and work on them (as I did last week) but this time it's just that bit easie

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matthewb
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chk1
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chk1Contributor
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What causes a workspace fmw to be saved in JSON format?

While looking through a folder of workspaces with a text editor, I noticed that one workspace fmw file was not in the usual XML-like format. It was instead a JSON file with a leading header line: # application/x-fme-json-workspace The last build/saved metadata states "FME(R) 2020.0.2.1 (20200511 - Build 20238 - WIN64)" - however when I create a new workspace with this version, it is saved in the XML format. I tried a variety of FME Desktop versions from 2019 to the most recent 2022, none save to JSON, but all are able to open the JSON fmw. This question is in part simply out of curiosity, and also because I have made a small Python script that iterates over a folder to gather some metadata that the WorkspaceReader does not publish (luckily the attributes I'm looking for are in the same "path" in both formats).

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david_r
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gisbradokla
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gisbradoklaEnthusiast
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attributemanager hidden setting?

AttributeManager_10 (AttrSetFactory): Bulk features are not supported because of the setting for 'If Input Attribute is Missing'. Changing this to 'Remove Output Attribute' may improve performance I see no such setting in attributemanager_10. Where is this setting? Form or Flow I get the same message in both. I do have an sqlexxecutor directly in front of the attributemanager but do not see this exact setting in it.

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kalbert
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juliarozema
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juliarozemaContributor
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Is there a way to use the Emailer Transformer where it gets the list of email addresses from a text file?

Basically here is the need: right now workbenches run (Using FME Desktop 2020.2 and Task Scheduler) and the email addresses are typed out within the Emailer Addressing "To" parameter. We would like things to be more easily updated. For example, if someone is no longer on the team, or if someone is new on the team, we would like to simply update a text file and ALL of our jobs will be updated. I tried reading the text file in, aggregating the addresses into one long string separated with a comma, but I wasn't sure how to assign the value to a User Parameter. (I tried a couple things and failed) Thanks in advance for your help. @danminneyatsaf​

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juliarozema
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mark2atsafe
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mark2atsafeSafer
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What's Up Wednesday (2-November-2022): Streaming to a Database, Mapping Month Webinars, Conference Videos, and (yes) much more!

Dear FME friends, Welcome to What's Up Wednesday. For reasons of space, this is an extract from the full version of this newsletter, which you can find here on LinkedIn . Streaming to a Database This week I saw a question about writing an incoming stream of data to a database: "I have a workspace that runs continually in streaming mode (receives from a connector). I want to write to a Spatialite DB while the workspace is still running. I've tried a FeatureWriter, but nothing is written out while the workspace is running. Is this normal behaviour for Workbench?" So there is a great article on the knowledge base about how to write to a database during a streaming mode. Writing is a little tricky because, generally, writers don't do anything until they have all the incoming data available, yet that's not going to work in a continuous stream. The article explains that you have to set Bulk Insert parameters, including the Features Per Transaction: Here, the writer waits for 1,000 features b

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ebygomm
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troubleshoot123
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FME Server - Proxy and OAuth error

Hi, FME Server 2022.2.1 Express install. Connecting out via proxy (not authenticated). https is not enabled on tomcat I've published an OAuth2 connection to the FME Server and am trying to Authorize it. Proxy is configured in the FME settings. Client ID and Secret is all set up correctly, including the redirect URI as I can get to the OAuth sign-in page for the app. However when supplying my credentials the token/code is being sent to http://<server><port>/fmeoauth but it just returns an error page "FME OAuth Service FAILED" "Failed to complete". I've also tried to use the ip address of the proxy to no avail. I'm guessing it is a tomcat redirecting issue but can't see any previous info related to modifying the server.xml or OAuth config file in the install folder. the FME OAuth log is detailing some nio error: Sun-19-Feb-2023 04:28:08.734 AM INFORM http-nio-0.0.0.0-80-exec-2 417005 : Retrieving connection with nonce: <removed> Sun-19-Feb-2023 04:28:08.749 AM ERROR http-nio-0.0.0.0-80-e

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baileyatsafe
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kristian.a
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kristian.aContributor
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Workspace runner skipping entries in the output

Hello people. I am having an issue that i cannot resolve. I am using the FME for 2 months now. Basically i have a workspace that performs pointOnRaster value extraction, does some calculations based on the result and writes to table/excel file/csv or whatever. Because i want to run this process over 10 000 files i created a workspace runner that loops trough a folder of *.nc files and compares them to one single shapefile containing the points. Regardless of the output format or the different approaches i've tried i am not getting the whole batch of results written in the output. For example i ran the workflow over the first 326 files and the WorkspaceRunner gives me 326 successfully processed entries. But the output file contains only 87 entries. If i run that workspace again it gives me between 67 to 90 entries but nothing close to 326. The log file doesn't indicate any kind of a problem. I've tried to do that with vector files as well, but still i am having the same issue with big a

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ranjeet_singh
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nickblakenburg
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nickblakenburgContributor
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HTTP/FTP transfer error: 'SSL connect error'

Hello, I want to access an api (not open to public but from one of our suppliers) using the HttpCaller . Connecting to the API with postman works fine. Connecting from the same server with FME gives the error: HTTPCaller (HTTPFactory): HTTP/FTP transfer error: 'SSL connect error' HTTPCaller (HTTPFactory): Please ensure that your network connection is properly set up HTTPCaller (HTTPFactory): No proxy settings have been entered. If you require a proxy to access external URLs, please ensure the appropriate information has been entered Connecting with FME from another environment works fine. We dont use a proxy. I have changed the option: Verify SSL certificates to NO Any ideas on what could be the problem?

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todd_davis
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virtualcitymatt
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virtualcitymattCelebrity
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Is there a performance trick to using the SharedItemSetter

I have a workspace which takes point features and assigns them models essentially this workflow: https://community.safe.com/s/article/creating-and-using-geometry-instances But I'm finding that the performance is quite bad. Is there anything I need to be aware of when using this kind of workflow? The idea of using a geometry definition was supposed to speed things up - heh. I know with raster datasets there is some little tricks that FME does in the background to speed things up by not reading bits until it needs to. Perhaps there are some transformers I should avoid?

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