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I was running a workbench from G: and wanted to view my logs. So I set my writers to output a log file for G:Logs but it didn't want to do it. When I created the folder 'Logs' it worked fine.In future releases it would be great to have FME automatically generate the neccessary folder(s) to place a log file in
Currently if the Feature Reader is set to Generic (Any Format) and the Input Format is set to <Guess format name from extension> and the format name is unrecognized then it reverts to a NULL reader.|WARN |Generic Reader: Unable to guess a valid reader name from dataset 'x'. A NULL reader will be used instead.A NULL reader produces no features, so this ends the translation successfully.The trigger feature should instead be routed through the invalid port so the issue can be caught and dealt with, or at the very least cause a translation failure.
Looking for a transformer to establishing the largest rectangle that would fit inside a given polygon. The mathematics behind it is extremely complex, though would be happy if it only worked with convex polygons to simply things.This idea isn't exactly new.Previously raised in a few questions:2015 - https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/4879/maximal-rectangle.html 2018 - https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/65011/maximum-inside-rectangle-from-an-polygon.htmlHowever, I don't believe it has been raised as an idea yet.
From this Q&A: Extracting transformation MatrixI need to extract IFCDIRECTION and IFCCARTESIANPOINT from IFC geometries. A workaround is to extract the transformation matrix from log and parse that, but it's a roudabout way.It would be great if the coefficients of transformation matrix could be extracted as feature attributes (or the IFC reader could read direction and Cartesian point coordinates optionally).
When a single parameter is selected, right-clicking will give you the option to convert from a public to a private parameter and vice versa. But that option is not available if multiple parameters are selected.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: If FME 3d tile writer provides some optimizations like cesium it would be helpful. 3D tiles generated by FME are too slow to load on cesuim ion. If FME 3d tile writer provides some optimizations like cesium it would be helpful.
Add the ability to generate Metadata for existing image files such as TIFF or JPEG. For example, I have a directory of tiffs, and I want to go ahead and generate Application specific Header files such as tabs, tfw’s and ERS. At the moment we are having to go back and use global mapper to generate these files.This is also Important to not re-write the image itself as if the format is lossy compressed, each re-write degrades the image.
Hi,It would be great to have the possibility into the Excel Writer to choose the Start Column value with an attribute value.See this post for infos : https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/96709/excel-start-column-value-option.html?childToView=96769#answer-96769
It would be great if there was an AttributeNameFilter transformer. I know that there are work arounds for keeping and removing Attributes with specific Names (eg. https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/35011/filter-by-attribute-names.html)But these are very cumbersome and not efficient for large files.
I would find it helpful if it's possible in FME Desktop to find and replace a value within a selection of transformers (or within all transformers in a bookmark). Sometimes I copy a selection of multiple transformers to prepare data for a new feature type which needs to use the same transformers for pre-processing as a similar but slightly different feature type. However, I need to manually rename all the values, annotations transformer- and bookmark names in which the old feature type name is referenced.
I would like the ability to expose (or create) on each feature the path that feature took in the workbench. I think this could be best executed in a list format, where for example, the first transformer a feature passed through is feature_path{0}.transformer. The second transformer would be feature_path{1}.transformer...etc.I think this could help with pinpointing errors in the workflow.
It would be great if we can read Civil 3D corridors and featurelines
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: ArcGIS Online and Portal feature writers to support adding and updating attribute indices If you are maintaining large feature layers that will be queried with non-cached expressions then maintaining indices on query fields will prevent full table scans on query. At the REST level it means passing JSON to addToDefinintion or updateDefinition, like this setting up a unique index on a field 'id':{"indexes" : [{"name" : "idIndex","fields" : "Id","isAscending" : true,"isUnique" : true,"description" : "Unique index on primary key field ID"}]}If the writer could do this it would help a lot.
Hello,This is just a small thing but quite the trouble maker...FBX scenes can have its "up axis" configured in any direction (X,Y,Z). The default for the current FBX writer is "Y" and there is no option to change it.For various reasons, I really, reeeeally need "Z up".The FBX ASCII Version can be changed with a parameter (1,2,3 = X,Y,Z):But I'm getting a bit tired from changing it by hand. :(I need this:Pretty please.
With the CoordinateSystemExtractor, only a description of the coordinatesystem is given. It would be great to have the EPSG code as well.For example:_coordsys : _Netherlands-RDNew-2008_0_epsg: 28992So I can use the 28992 code to extract more details from this coordinatesystem by building this URL, for example: https://epsg.io/28992.gml
It would be great if column settings can be saved and re-applied when a workspace is run and data visualized in a table within FME Data Inspector. When building a workspace, I find myself constantly re-running to test and look at the output, but sometimes I want to focus on specific columns, yet have other columns accessible if needed without having to re-run the workspace. I would like an option where we can save various configurations, or at least have Inspector remember the column settings when a workspace is re-run and use the same column order and visibility instead.
It would be helpful if the COLLADA reader would support reading Geometry definitions stored in the DAE as definitions so we could use the Shared Item tools. Currently the COLLADA writer supports this - I can create a COLLADA file with a single model but unfortunately it seems when reading that these definitions are read as aggregated mesh objects. When writing the same file back out to COLLADA the size blows up because a new geometry definition is created. When working with a file with 1000 of such geometries it blows up from about 1 MB to over 250 MB...
I love the glTF writer and we have been using it a lot in conjunction with our Cesium based applications to help bring customer data into their interactive 3DCityModels.glTF is awesome because it supports both vector (lines/points) and True 3D surfaces. One issue we're running into, however, is that I'm unable to style the vector features in the output. The fme_color attribute appears to be ignored and the GeometryColorSetter/AppearanceSetter rejects it because it is InvalidGeometry...This means we're unable to bring in colors from CAD drawings which makes it lose some of its valueI would love if the gltf Writer would recognise the fme_color attributes.
Esri has support for writing the layerType 'Building' in i3s. However currently it only is possible to write those from Revit. Options such as IFC are not yet possible. It would be great if Safe can support the 'Building Scene Layer' to be able to built those from IFC files.
Please please please :-) do some work to improve processing speed in FME of JSON.Using the JSON fragmentor I'm processing a JSON document with 20k simple records. FME processes each record in ~2-3 seconds. Unusably slow.Using Python I can process to document is ~5 seconds.A sample document is available here and I'm interested in the attributes of the feature array.
When using the File Geodatabase Open API Reader, any domains are automatically resolved to their values. Please can an option be added to the Reader so we have a choice about whether this happens, as we do with the ArcGIS version of the Reader.See...https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/73616/resolve-domains-in-file-open-api-geodatabase.htmlhttps://knowledge.safe.com/questions/72775/is-the-fgdb-open-api-reader-able-to-read-fgdb-doma.htmlIt appears that a few people would find this useful.
Hi,I know that FME has WebMapTiler as one of transformer utilities and it's good for creating image tiles in 2d web map applications.However, as 3d web gis is evolving and as there is more possibilities to build nice 3d web gis applications using libraries like CesiumJS and similair, i wonder if there is any plan in near future to enable tiling of 3d datasets using FME.For example, that you have 3d mesh and you want to create quantized-mesh tiles using some FME Transformer ? I know it's probably not so easy to implement at the moment but I would like to know if it's something that is on TODO list or not?Thank you and kind regardsIvan
I would like it to be possible to read the generated marks of a pdf, to be able to export them.This could generate pdf for changes, and then reload in the spatial database where the pdf was generated.
The 2019 version of the ChangeDetector has some great functionality updates. Since the fréchet distance is already calculated to determine if a feature is geometric match, it would be nice if we had the option to add that value as an attribute on the updated feature.ex.ChangeList{0}.action modifiedChangeList{0}.attributeName geometryObjectChangeList{0}.originalValueChangeList{0}.revisedValueChangeList{0}.frechetDistance 2.3
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