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FME Desktop 2022: The “clip” tool fails to produce the expected result, In the screenshot below, I wanted to clip 14 polygons from 1 polygon (the 14 polygons are contained in the 1 polygon). The expected result should be one polygon that represents all what is outside the 14 polygons. However, the clip result is shown in the 3rd screenshot What could be the issue here? The data and workbench are attached

FME Desktop 2022: Disaggregating two polygons gets them unexpectedly three, In the screenshot below, I got two polygons. However, as they are disaggregated I got three while they should remain two in this case as they are physically two from their native source with no reason to become three. What could be the issue here? The data and workbench are attached

I have an SDE geodatabase. I need to load a shapefile and replace all of the data in a layer with the new data coming in. For example there is a roads layer in the geodatabase and once a month I get a new roads layer. I'm looking to just replace the entire layer and add the new data that I have received in a shapefile format. Is there an easy way to do this?

FME Desktop 2022: How to use the same “reader” multiple times in the workbench without repeating adding it? In the screenshot below, I got an excel file as a reader. I need to use it multiple times in the workbench. How can I do that without repeating adding it each time?

Hi FME:ers! My task is to find a way to create polygons at the bottom of each solid geometry classes. The created polygons should follow the solid geometry classes bottom edges (x, y and z). I have marked a dark line in the picture for more understanding.

FME Desktop 2022: The sequence of records numbering before and after aggregating don’t match, In the screenshot below, the symbols are numbered and it appears that the numbers start from top to bottom. As the features are aggregated and re-numbered, it appears that there is no logic based on what they are numbered Then based on what "counter" tool work? The data and workbench are attached

Dear Team, I really appreciate the data inspector for z visualization of the point cloud, but I can't find how this color grading works inside fme data inspector.In my case I wanted to bring cloud points to the shapefile by color gradation based on z value. so my output shapefile looks the same as fme data inspector view. how can I do this ? is there any tool available for color gradation for feature color (based on z value)

We have a pipeline that is reading .dgn files, it seems to be working fine on a local machine where we actually have Microstation installed but once we deploy it on the server we are getting this message: It creates some output, the pipeline is not failing but the output on the FME Server is almost half as big as locally and has missing features. So my question is: Is this a bug or what's causing this? Because I was under the impression that FME does not require additional software. Our FME Server is hosted by us, not on FME Cloud if that matters. Thank you in advance!

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 moving In 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

"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.?

Hello FMEers, Here's your Wednesday roundup of FME news... The FME 2022 Reveal You 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 Post But 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 Clipper The 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

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?

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

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Hi. The image below is an extract from a much larger dataset. The image shows: Vegetation as the green polygon Buildings as hollow fill polygons The polygons are on two different datasets and have been built in such a way that the edge between the two polygons are 'edge to edge'. I need to be able to identify those buildings that 'touch' the vegetation polygon which I have identified with the red dot. It's been a while since I had to use this type of analysis and after searching the FME forum I'm still stuck. I guess could be overcomplicating my thought process. I know MapInfo has the functionality to do this but wanted to learn FME's approach. Any help would be very much appreciated.

Does anyone know if it is possible to clip a point cloud to a boundary when reading into a workspace? Often I have the need to only work with part of a point cloud file and my full files are frequently up to 10GB (in las format), though usually smaller. I'm also reading up to 100 similarly sized files at once Basically, I would like to read only the section of a point cloud that's in a boundary to save on time/computing power/memory/etc. If this isn't possible would I be able to thin instead when I read to load less data? I'd like to avoid having to use an external program to clip/thin first if at all possible. I already do this

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone has any ideas to extract the top/base lines from vertical planes as a surface? It would be the lines in red/blue shown in the image below? I've tried extracting the lines using a geometry part extractor but end up with triangular lines representing the surface. I wondered about maybe converting to a pointcloud and then taking the max/min values for points with the same X/Y as the planes are all vertical. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hi; How and in which transformers is it possible to implement the documented mathematical function if() in a text or arithmetic editor?. As a result, I always get <null>. Thank you.

Execution of statement `SELECT SDO_VERSION FROM DUAL' did not succeed; error was `ORA-00904: "SDO_VERSION": invalid identifier' -- this is the error I am getting everytime, not sure if oracle has some problem in fme backend, seems to be working in db directly

Hey, I have a Server App setup using my FME server where it allows users to select a location on an interactive map, and enter details into a text box. I would love to expand this to also allow the user to upload n images to be associated with this form submission. I have been looking for a tutorial for guidance, but they all seem to be setup around the user submitting a document like a CSV with data to be extracted and processed, mine is simpler than that, I just want to 'move' the images to a resource directory for future reference, but this 'move' process is where I get stuck. EDIT: So after stepping away from my computer and coming back I think I have worked out the process, but the output file is 'corrupt' and the image cannot be viewed. Is there anything specific I need to have setup so that files are output exactly as they are uploaded?

I have tried to add feature reader after the WFS reader, it did not work. I then tried to use python caller to unzip the shapefile first. But it looks like the zipped shapefile gets deleted after wfs reader finishes. Has anyone successfully used SHAPE-ZIP as WFS reader output format? how do you get that data into the next step?

Let's say I have data with an attribute "A" which is an integer. I want to process all incoming features with the same attribute the same way (example: check for overlapping geometries within that group of features). But I do not know beforehand what that number will be. How do I do that in FME? Looking for something like AttributeFilter, but with unknown attributes. I suspect the "group-by" option can do this for some tools, but I'm not sure how to apply it for this problem.

Are FME Desktop Licences tied to IP Address of the machine or Hardware Configuration?

I did a clean installation of the software as administrator but the startup screen hangs on loading transformers. Have anybody any idea? See screenhot attached