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How do I read AutoCAD text rotation which is not numeric?

  • 26 February 2020
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I have been provided with a set of dwgs which have autocad text in it and rotation values expressed in degrees e.g. '96d'. I need to read the value as '96', how do I do this? This is the first time I've seen the rotation units expressed this way. When I translate the dwgs the rotation values do not translate into text or numbers. I'm converting the CAD files into Esri fgdb feature classes and have AutoCAD 2019.

 


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You can use the StringReplacer transformer to get rid of the "d" by using a RegEx replacing d$ by nothing.

Then you will end up with the numeric value.

Hope that helps.

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Hi @wunderkind, this is just representational in autocad, depending on the working units in the dwg-file.

When you read the rotation attribute (autocad_rotation) in FME this will be a real number, not text. At least, this is what i see on my dwg's.

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