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This has happened so many times that I have lost count: I try to import values from the source in AttributeFilter. After the process is complete, it gives me nothing!The latest time is trying to get them from an IFC file. I select fme_feature_type in the dropdown, hit the import button, the feature types show upI select all of themI select fme_feature_type and check the use format attributesIt thinks a second, and....NOTHINGThis has happened with dwgs as well. fme_feature_type is exposed in the reader. I tried selecting other value types in the wizard to no avail.What is going on? I have attached screenshots to illustrate.Thanks

I have a large POSTGIS database table with 10+ million features and I'm trying to "clip" it to another geometry that is already read into the workbench. Is there any examples of this in a tutorial or something?

I am using FME 2020 (Build 20218) and I find that if I expose the fme_basename and fme_dataset in the Reader Feature Type they are read normally and have no issue, however I am curious why if I use an AttributeExposer to expose those attributes in the workspace, the values for these attributes are exposed with null values. What is causing the AttributeExposer to remove the values when it exposes these format attributes? 

Hi all,I have a workspace that has an Emailer transformer where the Email's body is the customed HTML_content. This works fine with FME desktop 2020.2 (build 20787-win64) but failed with FME Server 2020.1.1. (build 20608-win64).The error message was: Python Exception <ModuleNotFoundError>: No module named 'fmepy_emailer'I wonder if this is because of:incompatibility between 2 versions (2020.2 vs 2020.1.1)?or is it because the FME server doesn't support the Emailer transformer?At the moment, upgrading FME Server isn't an option for me.I have tried the Email function in the Automations of FME Server but it doesn't have an option for me to include HTML content in the Email's body but rather an HTML attachment - this means every time I will have to click the attachment and it will be opened in a browser.Any suggestion? Many thanks! 

I am using FME ArcSDE Writer to create features for a feature class in a table of an enterprise geodatabase with editor tracking enabled. If I run the writer FME logs the message that the fields The field 'created_user' in table 'ABC' will not be updated since it is not editableThe field 'created_date' in table 'ABC' will not be updated since it is not editableThe field 'last_edited_user' in table 'ABC' will not be updated since it is not editableThe field 'last_edited_date' in table 'ABC' will not be updated since it is not editableWhen the translation has finished, the created_user field is set to the schema name of the postgresql db. Is it possible to specify the created_user manually in the writer?

Hello, i'm new to FEM. ​ I have a problem about changing the storage locationWhen the software FME Date Inspector reads the data, the data appear to be temporarily stored in this file. Is it possible to change this path?I have not much space on my c drive, and i got a very huge data, for the remaining space of my c drive, it is not enough to support the software to read this data

I would like to create a TIN from DEM (.TIFF or .DEM). I would be grateful if you could tell me which Transformer and Writter can be used.  

fme_polygon covert with FaceReplacer, then with GeometryCoercer convert to fme_mesch. Why MeshSimplifier feature put to Rejected port with code invalid_mesh?

To whom may concern, We are currently trying to upload a 6GB obj mesh model to cesium ion, but errors showed up when retrieving the model. The mesh model was created from Reality Capture. As suggested by cesium team , we are looking for a way to tile the mesh or chop it up into small pieces. FME seems to be capable of doing this, but I'm still trying to figure out how to do that. An ideal result is attached below. Any suggestions would be appreciated. 

Hi, I want to overlap to my building and roof. I added one photo. 1(building) will go to 2 (roof). I know extruder transform. But also which transform can I added. Because it s not enough. This are .shp format.

Hello everyone, I have two data set (let say floors and units geometries). I use "Spatial relator" to find out if they are equal. I am sure there are some of the data that might be slightly different. So is there any way that I can set a tolerance, say within 0.1m? Thank you very much.

I'm looking to export point locations from FME as a .kml file and I want to remove the labels. I don't think there's an option to turn off labels for points, but you should be able to set the opacity to 0 (I've done this many times before in Google Earth). However, in FME, after I've exposed the kml_label_opacity attribute and set it to 0, the label will still appear when I open the exported .kml file. What am I doing wrong here?

Welcome to What's Up Wednesday. 2022 Sneak PeeksThe series of FME 2022 sneak peeks continued yesterday as Olivia from the geometry team demonstrated the new SolidDissolver transformer and updates to the Tiler:  Next up on the schedule is a demo of the SchemaScanner transformer. With me will be Mark Stoakes, one of our FME Application Experts.  2022 World TourSo registrations for the World Tour are open with both Safe and our partners. I've been clicking through to the virtual partner events and signing up for any events where I think I can overcome any language barrier! I'll be sure to tune in and report everything here. Hub DigestThe FME Hub monthly digest is a great way to keep up-to-date with both Safe and user-submitted content. This month there are four new transformers and a template.  To cover how you use these, for transformers, you just need to type the name into Quick Add in FME Workbench:  DatasetValidator looks to be potentially very useful and is another exampl

After upgrading FME Workbench to 2021.2.1 our arcgis pro 2.9 environment doesn’t cooperate well anymore with Python 3.7+ scripting.  For example, for some of our FME services we’ve installed Geopandas, which worked fine with ArcGIS Pro<2.6 and FME <= 2021.0, but not anymore with FME Python 3.7 and ArcGIS Pro 2.9. To fix this we’ve tried several things with a dummy script (attachment):FME ESRI ArcGIS Python 3.7 (Python compatibility ESRI ArcGIS Python 3.7) succeedsClone ArcGIS Pro 2.9 with Scripting compatibility FME ESRI ArcGIS Python 3.7 succeedsClone ArcGIS Pro 2.9 with geopandas>0.8 and Scripting compatibility Python 3.7 executed in FME Workbench failsClone ArcGIS Pro 2.9 with geopandas>0.8 and Conda forge Numpy 1.20.3 executed in a Conda python prompt succeedsHow can we have a ArcGIS Pro 2.9 environment with Geopandas working smoothly together with FME Python 3.7 in FME Workbench?

Hello, FMEers.Here's the weekly What's Up Wednesday post. SchemaScanner 2022This transformer was quietly released as part of 2021.2, but since then it received a lot of updates and looks fantastic for 2022. How do I know? Because it was the subject of our FME 2022 Sneak Peek yesterday.  If you work with dynamic schemas in any way - or even if you don't - I suggest checking out this recording (click the link above). It's very insightful. I think the key difference to how you might expect it to work is that the schema is stored on a separate feature to the data. You just have to make sure that it arrives at the writer first in order to set the schema for the data that follows. An attribute key joins data to schema allowing multiple schemas for a single writer feature type.  Anyway, to return to a previous sneak peek - the one on encoding and UTF-8 - there is now an excellent article on the changes that were made and how they affect you when upgrading to 2022.  I think tha

we want to import data formats into our application and also export data from this application. that means, there is i.e. DGN file that we need to import into our data format and for this action we are looking for a lib or dll or similar.currently i have seen, there is only a desktop (standalone application) available, but this is not what we are looking for, as we need to integrate a "data converter" into our application. is there any version avaliable as a lib or DLL? thanks a lot.

I have a dataset of two lines and I want to calculate the average distance between them. I can use the NeighborFinder to get the closest distance between these two lines. (As you can see on the image the closest distance could only be an outlier.)But I want to know how far they are from each other in average as these two lines are almost parallel. Is this possible to calculate ?

I'm using SmartGlobe (Proprietary tool in Microstation) to convert Geographic Points to Grid. I'm trying to replicate what happens in the background of this tool but I can't seem to find a reprojector/projector to perform this task? Source file will be an .xml and output will be a .DGN with all the points projected in there corresponding Grid location. The Tool looks like this

Is it possible to export floor plan data from Smallworld in CAD format using FME ?

Hi, I have roof data in shp format. I generated from airborne lidar. But they not come to one polygon as I added in pic. I want to make them 1 polygon. How can I merge all of them ? But some of them have gaps inside. I want to see them like the name of "source".

Hi. I am joining lots of sql tables together in FME and there are a few that contain the same field names. So both fields are preserved and I know which one I am looking at I want to prefix all attribute manes with the table name (similarly to how joins show in ESRI) I have used the BulkAttributeRenamer to manually type the table name in, but am after something a bit more automated. I have also tried exposing the fme_feature_type and using this as a prefix in the BulkAttributeRenamer but all fields then come back as missing. What is the best way of acieiving what I am after? Thanks

Hi ! I wanted to know if there was a way to save the attributes definition (Name, type and width) in to a CSV.Thanks for the help !

When I try to convert DGN to SHP I get this error.“DESIGN READER: Found duplicate tag name 'numero' on element. Renaming tag to 'numero04' to avoid conflicts”Do you have any suggestions to skip this duplicate tag name please or the way to change the tag name because I did not find where these duplicates. 

I am having a problem getting a HTTPCALLER do a GET from a custom API. I can successfully connect to the same API url in a web browser but get the error below from the HTTPCALLER. I am using the HTTPCALLER with similar APIs without issue. The url for this API is a little different than previous urls I have used so maybe that is an issue?Previous urls were like https://.../name/2A159Problem url is like https://.../name/2A159/Family?rtuFamily=C where the GET has to match both 2A159 and rtuFamily=C HTTPCaller_4 (HTTPFactory): HTTP/FTP transfer error: 'SSL connect error'HTTPCaller_4 (HTTPFactory): Please ensure that your network connection is properly set upHTTPCaller_4 (HTTPFactory): No proxy settings have been entered. If you require a proxy to access external URLs, please ensure the appropriate information has been entered

Hi,I have some polylines that I buffered with Bufferer in order to make some checks.Once the checks are performed, I'd like to get the original polylines back. I was wondering if I can copy the lines geometry into another geometry attribute and read them after, or maybe some other technique. Thanks in advance!