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Hello, I have a 2D City Map .*dxf file. I draped my city map on digital terrain model to obtain a 3D city map. It works fine but when I try to use .*dxf/.*dwg writer, ? see this problem. "AutoCAD Writer: Encountered a feature with inconsistent Z values, and type 'autocad_lwpolyline'. For this type, only geometry with constant Z values, or 2D geometry are supported. Dropping Z values"In my output, the geometry which consist of 'autocad_lwpolyline' does not have Z values. Is there any way to solve this problem?

Hi,Any idea how to convert Collada / 3ds single sided faces to double-sided faces?Thanks,Y.

Hi,I am writing out to a json writer and intend to stream this json using fme cloud.The output looks like [ { "STAGING_ID" : "9515", "USER_API" : "A2C3601C-40E9-48DC-A0C0-5D4DB0867A2E", "REQUEST_GUID" : "80318a93-f513-4e63-8c08-9e07250af0e2", "ID" : "120654", "UNIQUE_LOCATION_ID" : "5819", "UNIQUE_SAMPLE_ID" : "576683", "ROW_CREATED_DATE" : "18/05/2010", "LAST_EDITED_DATE" : "18/08/2017",etcIdeally I would like to add a few lines before the records return e.g.[    "status":"ok",     "body" :  { "STAGING_ID" : "9515", "USER_API" : "A2C3601C-40E9-48DC-A0C0-5D4DB0867A2E", "REQUEST_GUID" : "80318a93-f513-4e63-8c08-9e07250af0e2", "ID" : "120654", "UNIQUE_LOCATION_ID" : "5819", "UNIQUE_SAMPLE_ID" : "576683", "ROW_CREATED_DATE" : "18/05/2010", "LAST_EDITED_DATE" : "18/08/2017",Could anyone suggest how this can be achieved. I really don't want to manually template the output from the rows because they are dynamic and remove any null values.Many Thanks,Oliver

Previously we had no issue publishing to FME Server (2016 and earlier) with connections set to access web services on our ArcGIS Online for Organizations account. Now we can't seem to get our "one" ArcGIS Online job to work on FME Server 2017. When it asks us to authorize the connection after upload (Which works just fine on Desktop we simply get an error telling us "Invalid client_id Error:400"Has anyone else encountered this issue yet? Do you know what the solution to it is?I'm attaching a copy of the error message and what bothers us is it shows the generic https://www.arcgis.com URL and not our organizational account.

I would like to run a simple command-line command in FME and output the text to an excel table.I want to runtaslklist /s SERVERNAME /fi "ArcSOC*" > c:tasklist.txt ...and then send the results into other transformers.How would I do this?

Hello, im searching for the possibility of running multiple workspaces at the same time (not queued jobs) making use of the python fme objects fmeobjects.FMEWorkspaceRunner() . I was kind of hoping that i could pass a list of dictionarys as 'parameters' argument to runWithParameters(workspace, parameters) ... I was expecting the same behaviour as seen in workbench transformer WorkSpaceRunner, where you can set wait for job to complete = No and the amount of jobs to run (max 7, i suppose) run in parallel. Im i missing something wiht this object, or im really suppose to implement some python multiprocessing technic to acomplished the parallelism needed ? What your thoughts are ?Regards,Jorge

With the ArcGIS Online reader I can get the layer name from fme_feature_type but is there any way to get the name of the feature service that contains that layer?

I am using FME 2018.0. The problem is that my FeatureWriter outputs some weird geometry. The first picture is my input geometry. The inspect result is generated right before entering FeatureWriter.Then, I created a FeatureReader connecting to the geodatabase created above and inspected following geometry.I looked into the two geometries. They have the same amount of vertex. What could cause this problem?Update 1. I change the output format to shapefile and it works with either arc geometry type or polyline. The latter one is what I use for geodatabase output. Hope it helps. Update 2. A simplified worksapce and relative data is attached.

The documentation for the PythonCaller points to this page to describe how to install python packages for FME: https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Workbench/Workbench/Installing-Python-Packages.htmAt the bottom the target directory is listed as C:\Users\<user>\Documents\FME\Plugins\PythonBut, in that directory are several subdirs: python27, python 34, python35. Do I install instead to a version-dependent subdir?i.e.:python -m pip install <mymodule> --target C:\Users\<user>\Documents\FME\Plugins\Python\python36

Hi,I have setup a really nice example of the data delivery on FME server using this example code - https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/1117/data-distribution-with-web-maps.html. Ihave also made the guest account token the init for the FME javascript.I have setup a simple form to authenticate in the example the user using the token service however struggling to replace the init token with the users token when the FMEServer.runDataDownload method runs.Any attempt to overwrite the variable token resorts to running the job under the guest account.Any suggestions?Thanks

After using the Orienter on a line the attributes that are 'end sensitive' are no longer in the correct fields because of the flip. I used to use AttributeCopier (v2) which did a fine job. But an "upgrade" has broken the swap, overwriting so fields. I used to just not upgrade, but now the workbench just crashes. I cannot create a new workbench with the old AttributeCopier so I am stuck with a kludge using a whole lot of temporary variables unless there is a more elegant solution. Is there?Just to be clear, I need to do this:Source TargetLTO RFRLFR RTORTO LFRRFR LTOetc for every "end sensitive" attribute. (You will remember that not only do you have to reverse the data values, but it has to be mirrored as well when a flip is done because left and right are also swapped.)Preferably I would like AttributeCopier to revert to the original behaviour.

Hello,I have a DWG file with two layers. In the first one I have lines representing a nework of pipes. In the second one I have autoCAD text describing the pipes diameters. I would like to create a shape file representing the pipes with their diameter as an attribute. I linked a DWG reader containing the first layer to a SHP writer to create the shape file representing the network of pipe. How can I extract the text (diameter information) from the second layer of my DWG file and how can I link the diameter to the right pipe in the SHP file ?Thank you for your help,

How can I combine a list of the same feature into the same oneFrom this Ply_idLoc_nameLayer_idSpatial_relation1MTL1510OVERLAPS1MTL1511OVERLAPS1MTL1512WITHIN to thisPly_idLoc_nameLayer_idSpatial_relationMsg1MTL1510 OVERLAPS, 1511 OVERLAPS, 1512 WITHINThanks

I need to output an SQL script created with SQL Creator in a custom text file. The file is essentially a csv file but with '|' as the seperator, the header row prefixed with a 'H|' the rows of data prefixed with 'B|' and a footer containing F|<file_id>|<datetime_stamp>|<number_of_rows> creating a csv file using '|' is easy enough but I haven't found a way to do the prefixes or footer. I was looking at using XML Templater but not sure if I'm barking up the wrong tree. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

I looking to calculate the intersected area between polygonsI used the Areaonareaoverlay transformer but I am getting one of the feature removed and replaced by another one,

I am converting an excel spreadsheet to an esri geodatabase feature class of points. Working well so far, except for one field of elevation values. There was no standard of input and the values are varied. For example:75 feet75 ft.75 ft75f75 MSL25 m / 75 fIf it weren't for the last example, which occurs too often to waste time updating manually, I'd just use a string replacer to extract just the numbers, but in that last example, I'd end up with 2575 instead of just 75. I'm guess that first I need to remove everything before and including the '/', and then can use a stringreplacer with regular expression '[0-9]+' . Also, I've gotten another spreadsheet of data in which "##m" occurs. Those rows would need to be converted to feet. Hoping this is solvable with transformers, as the data is not to be edited.

I have a custom transformer that caches API call results to a PostgreSQL table. It tries a DatabaseJoiner on the key, and if it finds a matching record, it passes the joined feature directly to the main Output port. Otherwise, it calls the API, passes the result to a SQLExecutor to INSERT it for joining on same key value on subsequent features passed to the transformer.Unfortunately, the DatabaseJoiner is unable to find records stored by the SQLExecutor for subsequent features during the same workspace execution. I've tried explicit COMMITs (with appropriate delimiter declaration) in the SQLExecutor (it says no transaction is in progress) and a 5-second-per-feature Decelerator after the SQLExecutor in case there is some kind of race condition between FME Workbench and PostgreSQL. No luck. I still get duplicate key violations because the failure of the DatabaseJoiner causes the same key to be sent to the API and storage attempted again via the SQLExecutor. I've even tried

Using 2018.0 I placed a logger in-line with a translation. Max messages to log is set to 999999, but it stops logging after 115 features.Why is that - and how do I get it to log all the translation info (looking for info on the 428'th item in this case)?

I'm writting features with FME to an Oracle database with ArcSDE. For further processing (e.g. call of external python functions) I need to know the objectids of the written features within a python- or tcl-shutdown script. Is there any option to get these information?Thanks for your ideas!

Please help, at a complete loose end. I have a process that's copying data from one SDE database to another. So far it's working almost okay. My main problem is a featureclass which uses multipoint geometry, and I'm dynamically setting the geometry on the writer (intended as this process will be a child workspace run against different datasources). The only way I could initially get it to work was to tell it to set the geometry based on the first feature, but I have one dataset that has 4-5 multipoint features towards the end of the dataset, so the process bombs out trying to put an aggregate into a simple feature type.

I'm trying to run a workbench on my MacOSx 10.13 using DateTimeNow function but I get this error :AttributeCreator: Failed to load timezone data. Please visit http://www.safe.com/supportAttributeCreator: Failed to evaluate expression '@DateTimeNow()'.  Result is set to null.It runs perfectly on Windows 7.Do you know what could cause that? I've check into my options and my time zone is defined.

I have a dataset that is clipped to LGA boundariesI want my output to fanout to mulitple MapInfo tables, each named after an LGA, all within one folder.How do I do this?I am using FME 2018.1.0.0

Hi at all,at https://sentinel.esa.int/web/sentinel/missions/sentinel-2/data-products you may download Sentinel-2 tiling grid in kml format (Sentinel-2 tiling grid kml) (nearly 100 Mb). I tried to export it to SpatialLite and Shape polygons in order to work with inside a GIS more easily.But till now, I haven't success to export geometry Placemark (no polygon nor lines).By inspection them inside FME DATA Inspector, I see a complex structure --> IFMEAggregate made up by polygons and points. What I'm looking for!! But sure due to my illiteracy I can't find a manner to explode and extract and I just get or error on output or strange void features.Any hints?Best,fz

Anyone else having this issue? I open FME 2018.0 18295 32-bit and my stored database connections can't be loaded. When I open the FME Options/Database Connections, I get: "Error Retrieving Connections". The Translation log window is also missing. When I reopen it, I get the below error.-----------The Java Virtual Machine could not be started. CLASSPATH = '-Djava.class.path=C:\\apps\\FME2018\\common-webservices.jar;C:\\apps\\FME2018\\plugins;C:\\apps\\FME2018\\plugins\\activemq-all-5.6.0.jar;C:\\apps\\FME2018\\plugins\\amazon-kinesis-client-1.6.1.jar;C:\\apps\\FME2018\\plugins\\aws-java-sdk-cloudwatch-1.10.77.jar;C:\\apps\\FME2018\\plugins\\aws-java-sdk-core-1.10.77.jar;C:\\apps\\FME2018\\plugins\\aws-java-sdk-dynamodb-1.10.77.jar;C:\\apps\\FME2018\\plugins\\aws-java-sdk-kinesis-1.10.77.jar;C:\\apps\\FME2018\\plugins\\aws-java-sdk-kms-1.10.77.jar;C:\\apps\\FME2018\\plugins\\aws-java-sdk-s3-1.10.77.jar;C:\\apps\\FME2018\\plugins\\aws-java-sdk-sns-1.10.77.jar;C:\\app

Thanks for your help in advance, I am creating composite content, stacking polygons together from different 'surfaces' then clipping. This works as expected but it is almost exponentially creating additional vertices. This is an issue and as a result I need to generalize the output. Unfortunately when I use the generalizer tool the output geometry reports lots of invalid outputs, mainly 2d self intersections. Does anyone have any suggestions to help.Many Thanks