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Hi,I base my production runs on FME mapping files, which I create from Workbench workspaces by using "Save As". This way I can mess a little with a the workspace without throwing my Is it possible to add this 5-click procedure as a nifty custom "macro" in the Workbench GUI toolbar ?I.e. save workspace as mapping file with the same name and in same folder, prompting for overwrite if required.Cheers.

Hi,I am trying to calculate the width from a polygon at point feature locations (see figure). I was thinking about creating perperdicular linen at the point feature locations (perpendicular to polygon). Clipping the perpendicular lines (using the polygon as clipper) and calculating the length of the perpendicular lines. Is there an easier way to do this?Kind regardsMichael

Hi all,I have a polygon layer representing the sealed area of our road network with numerous attributes about the road. I also have a road centreline layer which has no attribute information. I want to get the road polygon attributes applied the appropriate centreline. The obvious transformer is the LineOnAreaOverlayer, however, this creates a lot of 'stub' centrelines that get associated with an intersecting road (please see image for an example). In the example, a small section of Road 2 is given the attributes of Road 1.So far the methodology that I have come up with is to:1. assign a unique identifier to each centreline2. process through the LineOnAreaOverlayer3. determine the lengths of each segment 4. combine segments based on unique identifier 5. use the attributes of segment with the greatest length for the attributes of the centrelineIts not ideal as there is potential for error, so I would be keen to see if anyone else could come up with a better methodology.Thanks as

Hi,I'm trying to get a Riegl laser scanning project (.RDB or .RSP) into FME. I'm able to add a Reader, but when I attach an Inspector or otherwise add any transformer, it fails. This is the error message:"RDB Reader: Invalid dataset. File '.rds' does not exist. Please ensure both a data and an index file exist in folder '' and you have sufficient privileges to read them."How can I best prepare a Riegl scan for FME proccessing? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Is it possible to use the MSWordGenerator transformer to out .docx via FME Cloud?

Hi all.I Need some help. I have two ESRI shapes, the yellow one and a pink one.Both have a column named ID with the values shown below. The red label is for the pink areas and the black label belongs to the yellow areas.The yellow areas can completly be overlapped by each other. (area 800 is under area 700)I want all to be "clipped" and joined between the pink and the yellow based on the ID column. I need the result as shown in the second image, the blue hatched resulting areas in a shape file.Any ideas?

Hello,anyone knows how to read STEP files which contain 3D objests? It seems that Parasolid platform is much overlooked in FME. I am not particularly fond of Parasolid, however it is quite a widespread industry standard.Any comments are welcome.

I am running into something while trying to read a DWG file and handle the data based on layers. I set up the reader with 'Group Entities By Layer Name' and most layers are being sent to my writer as Feature Types, with one exception: There is one Feature Type that seems to contain data from several layers, as in this example:The Feature Type is A208, while the autocad_layer is A234. Both A208 and A234 are available as Feature Types from the reader, but the A234 reader contains no data. The data on layer A234 (and other layers) can be exported from A208. I found a workaround on this by exposing autocad_layer in A208 and take it from there, but in a different setting I may have missed it. Is there something special with these layers that make them come "grouped" up like this, and how can I determine if my DWG files have things like this? I'm a GIS person, not a CAD person, and Autocad is a bit alien to me...

I keep getting an error trying to write to a specific table, getting an ESRI gdb error message (http://support.esri.com/en/technical-article/000004275).It claims that the table name has a leading underscore.I placed a StringReplacer (Image 1)I keep getting the same error listed in the ESRI blog above????Geodatabase Error (-2147467259): General function failure.Could not open File Geodatabase table `Delta_Block_Polygon'A fatal error has occurred. Check the logfile above for detailsAny suggestions appreciated

Good morning!I have a process that needs to get the definition for several CRS. To do that, it uses a HTTPRequest:http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/3042From the response I get, I have to take only the first <gml:name> element:<gml:name>ETRS89</gml:name><gml:name>ETRS89 / UTM zone 30N (N-E)</gml:name>I wanted to use XQuery, but it requires the declaration of the namespace. The problem is that every CRS definiton has different namespaces:<gml:GeodeticCRS xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:epsg="urn:x-ogp:spec:schema-xsd:EPSG:1.0:dataset" xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2" xmlns:rim="urn:oasis:names:tc:ebxml-regrep:xsd:rim:3.0" gml:id="ogp-crs-4258" xmlns:gco="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gco" xmlns:gmd="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd"><gml:ProjectedCRS xmlns:epsg="urn:x-ogp:spec:schema-xsd:EPSG:1.0:dataset" xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2" xmlns:rim="urn:oasis:names:tc:e

Hi, I am trying to read a multipatch geometry from ESRI File Geodatabase and getting the following error:FME API version of module 'FILEGDB' matches current internal version (3.8 20170315) FileGDB Reader: Feature class '*****' has shape type 'esriGeometryMultiPatch' which is unknown to FME. Skipping feature class (I am using OSX version of FME Desktop 2017.1, build 17539). I was wondering if it's supported on Windows with FGDB (ArcObject based format). Is MultiPatch Geometry reading supported by FME using Shapefiles?I appreciate any advice on this (puzzling for me) question.Kind regards,Alexander

Hello,I implemented a workflow that read a shp file, does some basic elaboration and writes the result in an Oracle table.I call the input file using a variable.Now, if I modify the input (more record but with the same structure), I receive this message in a window in FME Desktop:"Unexpected Input: During translation, some feature were read that did not match a reader feature type in the workspace. This can happen if the reader dataset if changed, or a reader feature type removed or renamed."If I execute the same workflow in FME Server, I don't receive any error message, but zero feature are written in oracle.Any idea about this strange behaviour? What can I do to better investigate?Thanks.

With FeatureReader, if an AutoCAD file is dynamically assigned as the Dataset via attribute, how can we filter geometries on certain layers by the layer names? Here is the image of the transformer's property definition showing the specific ports manually entered which was later ignored.

My DB contains line (say street network) and points (say Bus Stops), the points has to be placed on the vertex of the lines.Would like to find out all those points which is not placed on the vertex of the snapped line.

Hi, I'm using the TweetStreamer to monitor a few key words, when I hit these key words, I'd like to retweet the tweet, and follow the user who created it. I can't see an obvious way around this at the moment, so am looking for suggestions!

I 'am reading a Json file that contains a timestamp. I need to convert this to a date so that I can aggregate other data on Year, Month.I've tried using an attributemananger (@value/86400)+25569+(-5/24) and DatConverter to convert the timestamp but this didn't gave me any results.Therefore my question how to do this?

In a JSONTemplater I am using fme:get-attribute to insert the value of an attribute created in the workspace with an AttributeCreator.  The attribute is a represents a status code, so it should be interpreted as an integer, however the JSONTemplater always interprets it as a string, despite all my attempts at forcing it to integer.  Using @int(fme:get-attribute("_statuscode")) results in a TCL error (apparently the @int function is being evaluated before the fme:get-attribute function).  Also tried using an ExpressionEvaluator with @int(1.0) but this is still interpreted as a string.  Any ideas? Thanks!

Hi! I have one problem with coordinates of my objects. For example, I created a simple cube in Revit and exported to IFC file. After that I opened file in FME Data Inspector and I have 24 vertices or coordinates instead of 8 which I think I should have. So they are tripled. Therefore, when I calculate volume it is three times bigger. On the other hand, area calculator works fine. Is there any possibility to remove coordinates and leave only one for each vertex or maybe something else is a problem?

I have a very simple workspace which is basically 3 steps: readers, UpdateDetector, writers. It is intended to compare changes between two ArcGIS feature classes, which represent data from different years.The UpdateDetector has 4 output ports: updated, inserted, unchanged, deleted. The outputs from the unchanged and added ports seem to be more or less what I'd expect. However, the outputs from the inserted and deleted ports are not being written out to the final feature class - although the post-run numbers show that features were routed through these ports. When I preview the output in the DataInpspector, all the features from all 4 output ports are there. I thought I may be able to workaround the non-writing by doing a 'Save As' on the data in the DataInpspector, but when I try this I get a 'fatal error' with the following message: "In order to update/delete a feature in the table/feature class 'Inspector_UPDATE_area', the FME feature must have the

Greetings,I am trying to export ellipse features to an ESRI file gdb.1)Do they need any processing by a transformer first??2)Should they be exported as a line or polygon??Any suggestions appreciated.

What is the best way to uninstall FME on Mac OS X?

Hi,My colleague in the Stedin bodem department is trying to read the attached xml file with FME 2017.1. I have tried unsuccessfully to read it. I cannot access the geometries.Any ideas what I am doing wrong?Or has anyone in the Netherlands already processed the data from this omgevingsdienst with FME?Thanks,Annette

Hi Everybody,I am using FME 2016.1.3.1In date time format I used* Source Date Format = "Unknown - Automatic Detection"* Destination Date Format = "FME Date/Time (%Y%m%d%H%M%S)"Then if the input is "2017-09-13T16:30:01" it will output "20170913173001".Attached is the FME workspace I used for testing. Did I do anything wrong? I don't want to have the hour shifted.Thank you!