How to Convert CAD Markers to Points

Hi @sjolster31,

I haven't personally worked with cad markers before, but I'd be curious to see if the CenterPointReplacer might do the job? The transformer replaces a feature's bounding box or center of mass with a point. Alternatively, it might benefit to use the BoundingBoxReplacer first and then the CenterPointReplacer for more consistent results. Hope that helps!

If you're referring to the markers described in this Autodesk Knowledge article then I think the text point should be the location of the marker. If your markers are blocks or inserts then you should uncheck the reader parameter Entity Options -> explode Blocks into Entities. This will return a single point for a block instead of all of the block entities. If you want both the block/insert entities and the insert point then you can use the format attributes autocad_block_insert_X/Y/Z as described in the AutoCAD format documentation on Inserts. The tutorial on working with AutoCAD DWG has a section on working with blocks/inserts

So, after trying a couple of the above mentioned techniques, I found that the solutions is to make sure the reader format is "Autodesk AutoCAD Map 3D Object Data". That is all that was necessary. FME will automatically make these odd "symbols/markers" a point.