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Resizing of Transformers and Readers/Writers to fit grid (Interface display Idea)

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  • October 16, 2025
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mstudds
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This is purely just an organisational/visually pleasing feature and has nothing to do with the function of FME, but it would be cool to have an option when you right click on a item on the canvas, and under the “size” drop down, have 2 options call “expand to grid”, and the other as “shrink to grid”. The expand option would snap the corners to the outer boundaries of the intersecting grid polygons, and the shrink would do the same but to the shorter (inner) boundary. I think it would also make the grid easier to use in terms of spacing items evenly on the interface.

 

This is the defaults I get when adding items to the canvas:
 

Items just slightly off filling up the grid polygons. I usually have to manually expand these out to make organising the workspace easier.



Keen to know if this has been suggested before or contradicts logic of sizing transformers?

 

Michael