Data interoperability vs FME

Hi there,

The Interop extension is a subset of FME Desktop. You can use FME capabilities in ArcGIS environment. If you have ArcGIS dependencies you may not be able to unless if you upgrade your Interop license to FME Desktop Esri Edition and use it in the same environment.

Please check out this page for more details about the difference between two:

https://www.safe.com/esri/arcgis-data-interoperability-extension/

You could request for a temporary FME Desktop Edition license for testing purposes and check out your workspaces.

The way you do this is open a workspace with FME, select all elements (Edit>Select All) in the workspace, select the Edit>Copy menu, then create a new Data Interoperability Spatial ETL tool, then Edit>Paste into the Spatial ETL tool workspace. Data Interoperability 10.7.1 uses the FME 2019.0.0 engine so if your FME edition is more recent you may need to replace some transformers with earlier versions. Data Interoperability now includes as many formats and transformers as can be licensed under Safe's vendor agreements.

ArcGIS Pro can use fmw workspace files as Spatial ETL tool source or interactively in Workbench started from the Analysis ribbon so avoids the whole copying process.

The way you do this is open a workspace with FME, select all elements (Edit>Select All) in the workspace, select the Edit>Copy menu, then create a new Data Interoperability Spatial ETL tool, then Edit>Paste into the Spatial ETL tool workspace. Data Interoperability 10.7.1 uses the FME 2019.0.0 engine so if your FME edition is more recent you may need to replace some transformers with earlier versions. Data Interoperability now includes as many formats and transformers as can be licensed under Safe's vendor agreements.