Hello,
I think it's time for the SpatialRelator to get a well deserved upgrade to work with 3D surfaces and solids.
I would love to use FME for our daily BIM workflows, but get frequently frustrated because all the spatial join tools are obviously designed with 2D in mind.
8/10 of all my BIM workflows are just about 3D containers:
- Generate container objects for rooms, grids, sectors, levels, buildings.
- Collects all non container objects using containers.
- Assign container ids for relations.
- etc.
Please, dear FME gods...
- Basically just a mesh/mesh collision test.
- Needs a tolerance.
- A speed/quality setting would be amazing.
I know, I can work around this by using a CenterPointReplacer with a Clipper for an inclusion test, or by reducing the problem to a 2D plane, but a mesh/mesh test is way better. So many possiblities...

