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Hi everyone,I am trying to expose some custom ​attributes contained within an IFC so I can expose their attributes, see attached image (BIM vision IFC viewer).​There are ​various containers (e.g. SM location) and then custom attributes within those containers.​I followed these instructions with the GPE and Attribute Exposer but they are still not exposed. ​Thanks.​​​​​​​​​​​

To give a brief introduction. We have setup a containerized FME stack where the engines are residing on a different server. As is recommended and because the external engines are not running in the local Docker network, I am using a declarative "PORTPOOL" range. So both in environments "PORTPOOL=9000-9200" and in the ports "9000-9200:9000-9200". Using this setup, I notice the following message keep coming back in the FME Core container: "Trying to update FME Server services..." This keeps on going, where a message every seconds is being send. This seems to only happen when setting both the "PORTPOOL" and defining the ports. Removing this, does not let this message come up. To have some insight in this, I was wondering what this message is actually indicating and what is meant with "update" and "services".

I have the definition of a surface made up of triangles, in this case closed polygons.I want to be able to create an accurate surface that maintains the definition of the polygons, but also interpolates between them, as sketched in red on the attached image.The Triangulator does a good job of maintaining the polygon definitions, but doesn't fill the gaps.The Surface Modeller does fill the gaps, but the result in greatly distorted. Any ideas?

Hello, I have a problem with the ImageFetcher transformer.I'm trying to create images from a WMS link. The error is : _http_error (string: UTF-8): ImageFetcher: The HTTP response did not include a Content-Type header, so the image type cannot be detected. I've tested the WMS link on Firefox, Edge and even on Internet Explorer and its working properly without any error. Thank you in advance for your help.

Hello, I have one column that is supposed to contain only numbers.But some values contain letters ou special caracters.With a Tester Transformer, how can I separate features wich the value contain letters or special caracters ? Thank you

Hi !I have a line with his orientation.I would like to orientate parallels lines on the same way.Do you have an idea?Thanks !

Dear colleagues,I'm looking for a way to perform updates within 1 table based on consecutive attribute values. In the attached picture I want to increase/adjust the “Traject_volgnr” if this condition is met for 2 consecutive features : “Route4” is the same but the difference between the consecutive “Hm_pos” is greater than 2. In the example this should give the following result: Line 15089 - 15093 the "Traject_volgnr" remains 1 but in lines 15094 - 1598 the "Traject_volgnr" changes to 2 (or another value).  

Does it possible to connect FME Desktop Professional Edition 2020 with Esri software ?in case not,which license required to connect with Esri software ?please, could someone explain , what is the difference between FME Desktop and FME Server? Thanks in advance

Hi,I've just upgraded from FME 2021 to 2022 and now I don't seem to have the option to save my .fmw file as a .fme for use with the FME Quick Translator.Has anyone any ideas on a workaround?Thanks

Hello FME users,Today is the day for What's Up Wednesday, your weekly FME newsletter. User Projects and Case StudiesI noticed this week several projects and case studies that I thought I'd like to share. Interestingly, they're all local government projects and all from Europe. From Sweden comes a report about how Botkyrka municipality is the first in the country to make all its plans available via the National Geodata Platform. With FME's help of course. The report says: "The goal of phase 1 has been to use as automated flows as possible to increase the quality of our internal plan mosaic, reinterpret its detailed plans into the digital format and make these available as open data in NGP... If any other municipality is interested in how we in Botkyrka have worked with automation in phase 1, I will publish the FME scripts we have produced including sample data on Deladigitalt.se before the summer holidays." Tack for sharing this, André Jacquet. In the UK, 1Spat

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After point on area, I want to calculate the average of one attribute if they have the same other two attributes. which function should I use?

Hello, Please can someone help me with this very strange issue i have encountered with the RasterDEMGenerator transformer.  I have uploaded some sample data and the sample workbench. The input features have 40 vertices to pass through to the RasterDEMGenerator but it fails each time, whereas when i add in another transformer - PointCloudCombiner before the RasterDEMGenerator it works fine. I need to get to the bottom of this issue as i cannot use the PointCloudCombiner transformer. Many thanks @Mark Stoakes​ @Takashi Iijima​ @danatsafe​ 

I have a unique request from a user to create shortcuts (desktop shortcuts) in a folder based on a field in a table. I am guessing I need to attempt to use the PythonCaller, but before I went too far down this rabbit hole, I figured I'd reach out to see if anyone had any ideas. Any information or guidance is appreciated.

I would like to ensure that I understand correctly what Area Boundary is not Closed detailed information means

Hi FME, we would like know more details on minimum requirement for fme server and fme desktop. I already read the tech spec but it is too general for the information. Appreciate if you could share morea about this. Thank you

 I have a question.I have the network below, but I only have the data.i want to know which section to go through to go from endpoint to endpoint. in this example I want to get 3 answers.which sections to go through to get from:1) from 1 to 52) from 1 to 83) from 5 to 8 how can i solve this?the solution should be:1) sections 21,22,25,272) sections 21,22,25,26,23,243) sections 27,26,23,24 

I've been using the TimeWindower for the first time and could not get it to work like expected. Fiddling around I tried changing the name of the attribute to remove the orignal <space> in the name. And rest assured it now worked just as expected.

Hi, I have a annoying problem. I have made a very large FME model with lots of bookmarks and connections. If i want to run the model with caching i get the message that i can't because its too large, that i can understand and if i close a few of my bookmarks it works. But the unpleasant consequence is that some bookmarks and transformers outside a bookmark are moved and now there is a jumble of connecting lines. Closing of opening the bookmarks again doesn't help. It's not that simple to move everything again to the right place. Am i the only one with this problem and is there a quick solution? Closing without saving is one but i have made al lot changes. The image added is just a little piece... Thx!Nathalie 

Hi FMEers,I hope you've signed up for the FME Scavenger Hunt, or are putting together a team to take part. It should be a great event. This post is just to set up a place to ask questions, add comments, or for teams to organize themselves. If you comment here, I should be notified.  I may also post a short daily update here too. Cheers Mark

Hi !I observe a very strange behaviour of a personnal parameter.I create a parameter with Type = Choice (Multiple). I define the others blanks, everything is ok, but when I click on "Default value : " news values (that are attributes) are added by FME.I don't understand why. It's normal? How can I ovoid that? Thanks !

Hello,I need to copy files in PDF format from an office location to a web server, so that they are accessible in a mapping application.Each file corresponds to a point feature in a database table. Each entity has a serial number that corresponds to the name of the PDF file.I have built with FME the path and the name of each PDF file but I don't know how to go about copying it. I plugged a CopyWriter into the output of my processing but I can't seem to use it with an attribute-based destination. Can you help me, please? Thanks

I have several CityGML files put in the same directory, each having several features: such as address, building, buildingPart, cityModel, groundSurface, roofSurface, wallSurface, etc.   I can convert them into OBJ files using Batch Deploy, which creates a new folder for each CityGML file and in which separate OBJ files are created for some of the features containing 3D geometry information, such as roofSurface and wallSurface, respectively, as shown below.   However, when I replicate the same approach to write out the other features that don't contain 3D information, such as address, building, and cityModel, I don't get individual JSON files for these features put in the same folder with other OBJ files from the same parent CityGML file. Instead a single text file is created for each CityGML file, and I have to manually add the .json suffix for each of them.  Another issue is that a JSON file name needs to be provided when converting CityGML attributes/features to JSON file, in

How can i join and have only the attribute having xy coordinates in the output file?

I built a simple workflow that converts a DWG to KML. I'd like to write the KML file back to the same location I read it from. For example, dwg from path C:\\Users\\admin\\Downloads\\test.dwg, writes to C:\\Users\\admin\\Downloads\\test.kml It's simple to manually select the Reader file and Writer location dynamically using User Parameters, but I want to only have to select the Reader file and automatically set the Writer location/file name. Doing it this way would save a step if possible.