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Hi, I'm doing a CAD to GIS  transformation of a telecommunication exchange and i'm looking to capture the arrowhead direction represented by the CAD arrows(they come across in FME as "autocad_block_name" ARROW), but when I filter them they come across as small line segments at the ends of the cable. In the end I need to be able to specify the number and location of arrowheads on a given piece of cable. If you have any ideas or need any additional information please let me know. Thanks. -Tim

I need to merge two files (excel). I want to retain the common fields, but I want to remove duplicates, but also flag the data sources.  So for Example I have:  Readers File A Name, Postcode, DOB Bob, NG1 1AA, 01/01/1970  File B Name, Postcode, DOB John, SW1 1AA, 01/01/1980  Writers File C Name, Postcode, DOB, FileAFlag, FileBFlag Bob, NG1 1AA, 01/01/1970, Yes, No John, SW1 1AA, 01/01/1980, No, Yes  I can merge the File A and B , simply by using 2 AttributeCreators and 1 AttributeKeeper and a Writer.   ------------------------------------------  The problem starts where I have duplicate entries and want to merge the data. See below:  Readers File A Name, Postcode, DOB Bob, NG1 1AA, 01/01/1970  File B Name, Postcode, DOB Bob, NG1 1AA, 01/01/1970  Writers File C Name, Postcode, DOB, FileAFlag, FileBFlag Bob, NG1 1AA, 01/01/1970, Yes, Yes  -------------------------------------------  Anyone know which transformers I need to use for this situation?  Thanks, S.        

Hi there I am trying to undertake some spatial validation of input data (points), notably to determine if the ID given to the points is within a polygon with the same ID.  Easy so far (PointonPolygonOverlay / Tester).    But what I then want to do for those points that fall outside is calculate the distance to the polygon it should be in.  Unfortunately although the point doesn't fall into the polygon it should, it does fall into another polygon so when I run NeighbourFinder all i get is the distance to the nearest polygon, not the one with the matching ID.  Can anyone advise if this is the best route or if there is a better way of doing this? 

Hey there, i just started working with FME 2014 Oracle Edition 64bit. So i came across some things/problems/possibly bugs i can't seem to find a solution nor any helpful information. I was wondering if any of you encountered similiar problems or have even have a solution at hand. Here they come:  1. When entering a custom transformer CREATED in FME 2014 the content of a FMEBinary geometry storing atrribute gets always altered to "1O¨ƒ [GS][EM]" (with the GS and EM being black symbols) and therefore is pretty useless. Transformers created in FME 2013 don't do this and still work fine in 2014.  2. With some features going into the same custom transformer i get the following error message: ParallelProcessing_FindMaxTriangle_Feature_in1390212354 Input Splitter: This FME edition does not recognize the `hjTA' function. Please ensure that the current platform supports this function, the function name is spelled correctly, and that you have installed all required plug-i

Not quite sure how to describe this or how to look it up.  I've got points coming into a point on area overlayer, two different schemas gathering similar attributes.  I'd like to merge them into one csv file by directing the differently name attributes to a common one.  I attempted to write the features to a NULL feature, but then I couldn't figure out how to reuse them in the same workbench file to pass them along to the final output csv file.  I thought that I had seen where you could do this, but don't remember the way of accomplishing it if possible.  Using 2014 on Win 7.  Can this be done in the same workbench file or do I need to create two files?  Thanks.

It looks like the default setting for bookmarks in FME 2014 is "unlocked", is that right? That is, when you draw a bookmark around transformers and move the bookmark, the transformers do not move. You have to "lock" the magnet in the top left corner.  That is the opposite from previous FME releases. Is there a setting where you can set the default? When I put a bookmark around some transformers, I usually want to move *** at some point. It is an extra step to have to lock the bookmark.  Thanks

Hi:     I have a layer with zoning, and a cadastre layer - the boundaries dont match up so i was trying to user a negative buffer to shrink the parcel a bit to eliminate most of the missmatches - but then i am getting too many null buffers.  trying to do it with a spatial relator and a matcher and it is getting overly complicated.  So time to rethink how i am doing it. What is the best way to copy the zoning text attribute from the zoning layer to a parcel layer on top of it - there are parcels with multiple zones? Thanks,    Mike   

Hi, I have a feature class of polygons that I would like to convert to a text layer in the DGN file with one of the attributes as the text shown. I have played about with GeometryCoercer and tried  changing the format attibutes (igds_type and igds_text_elements{}.igds_text_string) but cant get text to display in the place of polygons. Has anyone managed to do this?

I have a set of data that is 4D.   I would like to compute a point coordinate given an input measure that i provide.   I am still using FME 2011.  Thanks in advance.   

How would I find the nearest neighbor feature that has the same ID attribute as the base feature?  Ex: All line features (candidate) have a unique ID. All point features (base) have a matching ID to the line features, but are not necessarily in close proximity to each other. In the output, the points should have a relationship with the line of the same ID.   Thanks

Hi,   Any alternates for Select by Attributes ??

Hi.  I have a work bench that writes a DGN. The user of this DGN currently has to apply a custom colour table to it after I've created it. Can FME read the colour table of another DGN and apply it to this one?  Thanks,  Chris

Dear All ,   We need to combine all the attributes from AttributePivoter into another feature class , we used FeatureMerger to combine the attributes but we are not getting all the attribute from AttributePivoter  . if we write AttributePivoter to excel directly it is working fine , but now we need to use the excel output into the same feature class . so what is the way to get it in one shot   1) AttributePivoter  with FeatureMerger  but not getting all the attribute 2) or  if we write it to excel how can we use this execl as input again on the same work bench  3) or call another workbench from the same workbench to read the output excel file and merge it with another feature .   Thanks,

Is it possible to route CAD features based on their symbology/style in FME? I am trying to separate features in CAD .dwg files and route them into different shapefiles/feature classes for use in GIS. So anything from the .dwg file that is drawn as a sidewalk (according to an existing line style, weight, etc) can be routed to the Sidewalk feature class. Or, say that fences are always drawn in CAD as a dashed line. The FME could take in a drawing and route all features with a dashed line symbology to a Fences layer/shapefile.     Is this sort of analysis possible in FME?

Hi all, As you can see, I have a quite complex question. Some genereal information: I'm using Windows Server 2012 FME Desktop and Server 2013  ArcGIS Server 10.2 What I want to do: Using a Web Harvesting program, which searches on a OpenData-Site for accessible WMS Service, which I want to integrate in my WebMap. The WebHarvesting program stores all WMS links in a txt file. The links look like this: http://gateway.hamburg.de/OGCFassade/DE_HH_WMS_INSPIRE_A3_4_Bodennutzung_lokal.aspx?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=1.3.0  Now I want to use FME Desktop, which reads/parsed the line and after that, FME should publish these links to the FME or ArcGIS Server Rest Interface.  So....firstly my question would be: Is this possible? And secondly: If it is possible, how to realize it?   Regards!

If I want to run a workspace, either as a workspace or as a job on an FME server, I want to assign values to its published SourceDataset entries.  What what is the precise format for these entries ?  Do the file paths need to enclosed in quotes ? Either seperately or all-in-one ? What separartor character needs to go between each path ?  Cheers Lars I.

I am trying to build some 3D planes from XYZ centre points.  I have generated the planes using sector generator coerced these as polygons then 3d Forced them @ZValue  rotated them CLOCKWISE them using ) and I am stuck trying to get the resultant planes to rotate/tilt on their Z axis about their @ZValue centre using an @Value(Dip)  can someone please provide a screenshot of a 3DAffiner example of a Z-axis affine of say 10 degrees   AND  a 3DRotator example of a custom axis example OR z-axis example to apply a 10 degrees to each plane element? the help file for these two transformers are for irony and i am unable to debug why nothing is tilting.  Kind Regards, Steve 

Helo I am simply  tring to run a test to determine if poitns are within Parcels and it seems to working well but there are Lat Long field that are not being populated. Is there a way to populate these fields? Thanks  Pat

Dear All ,   How to pass a geometry draw using geocortex to FME server . We have esri geometry draw by a user and we need to pass it to fme server .   thanks ,

Hi,   I'm trying to read an XML document using multiple xfMap files. First, I defined all schemas in single xfMap file. When specify the file path as the XML reader parameter, there are no problem. However, after dividing the definition into 2 xfMap files, when I specify those file paths to the reader parameter, the FME workbench detects an error:  -----  Opening the XML reader with source dataset 'C:/tmp/sample01/sample01.xml' XML Parser error: 'Error at file:'' line-0 column:0 message:unable to open primary document entity 'C:\\tmp\\sample01\\xfmap_sample01_1.xml C:\\tmp\\sample01\\xfmap_sample01_2.xml'' An error ocurred while attempting to parse the xfMap document 'C:\\tmp\\sample01\\xfmap_sample01_1.xml C:\\tmp\\sample01\\xfmap_sample01_2.xml' XML Parser error: 'Error at file:'' line-0 column:0 message:unable to open primary document entity 'C:\\Program Files\\FME 2013 SP2\\xfmap/xfmap_sample01_2.xml'&

Hi everyone I run an image clipping workbench (let's call it clip.fmw) from another workbench (starter.fmw) using WorkespaceRunner. But I am unable to put the parameters in the right format in order to get the clipping done right. I did some testing:  ----------------------------------- Starting by using the starterfmw skript with the WorkespaceRunner that runs clip.fmw: in the starter.fmw skript:   Klicking on the (...)-button in the workspaceRunner to select my images I get following result (when selecting multiple images):   In the picture selection window: "picture1.jpg" "picture2.jpg"   In the WorkspaceRunner Parameter Window: E:\\picture1.jpg,E:\\picture2.jpg   In Log window when running the WorkspaceRunner out of the starter.fmw: --SourceDataset_JPEG {""E:\\picture1.jpg" "E:\\picture2.jpg""}   --> The Skript Fails ------------------------------------ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx In clip.fmw skript without using a Work

Hi All, I'm banging my head on this one.  Should be rather simple, but I'm not getting it.  Think it involves TCL (very rusty on) or at least some splitters and such.  I've got a zoning table that has one attribute that has the zoning along with all of the overlays that are associated.  I'd like to extract the first portion of the complete zoning that is before the '/' that then lists the overlay - there could be several of these.  I.E.  the complete zoning is:  R-3B/T/SP/PH ; the base zoning is:  R-3B.  Can't use specific numbers to trim as some are:  P/T and I want only the P.  Have got the attribute splitter set up, but having issues with assigning the first in the list to the new attribute.  Thanks for any help you can offer.

I was wondering what the intention of this Reader is. It seems to only read the data in from the underlying FeatureClass.  A layer file contains a lot of important information used for the display of the data in ArcMap. This includes visible fields, field aliases, defintion queries and scale ranges (to name a few). I am wondering why the reader does not expose these properties of the layer file. We are using 2013 SP4.

I downloaded the workspace from the FME knowledge base, and I don't exactly know how to use it.  There's no input to add any readers to it. How do I use this workspace?  http://fmepedia.safe.com/articles/Samples_and_Demos/DMS-to-Decimal-Degrees-Workspace 

I run FME Server and created a workspace yesterday to process OS AddressBase csv files. I kicked the process off yesterday and left it running when I went home.  This morning when I came in my PC had rebooted (and lost the connection to the Server). I logged back on to the Server and started FME. I opened my Address workspace to see how it had got on - the workspace was blank - no transformers, no readers, no nuffink.  The folder where my Workspace was saved contains 3 files ...  (a) the Workspace fmw which still has everything in it (if you open in Notepad),  (b) the log from yesterday which showed the process ran OK and finished after an hour.  (c) a recover file which contains  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?> <RECOVERY_FILE HWND="65876" COMPUTER_NAME="GISBUILD" USER_NAME="mitcheli$">   <UNDO_STATE FILE="C:\\Users\\MITCHE~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\2\\wb_recovery_1387380016793_5468"/> </RECO