write/insert a layer in an existing dwg file

Hi Franco, I don't think it's possible to insert a layer into an existing dwg file, since the dwg format doesn't support Feature Operations unfortunately.

Hi Franco,

You can't exactly add data to an existing file. But... in the parameters set that file as a template and Preserve Template File Model Space Data = Yes, and then you will get a new file but it will have the existing and new data merged.

Here, for example, I add a layer of parks to a dataset of traffic signals already in DWG:

Hi Takashi,

i have an autocad file with cadastre and areas with numbers.....

You can use the DWG styler on the data prior to writing it.

If the symbols are existing ones, just refer to them. If not create them and the create reference.

As i understand it you want to symbolise existing data according to outcome of workbench, rather then actually adding a new layer?

Hi Gio,

Greetz

You could also set up a translation from DWG->DWG -- then read the data and write it all out to a new DWG. So long as there are no complex blocks etc, it should work. Use the original DWG as the template file of the output DWG as well, but this time, not with preserving the original models. Then you can easily test and introduce new entities in the FME Workspace, such as you needed above.