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  • February 10, 2019
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Hello,

I am stuck on a problem that is probably very simple, I just don't get it...

  • I have a simple test IFC file with two rooms and some random furniture:

  • I would like to use FME to run an inclusion test, which furniture is in which room.

My thinking is to extract a center point of every furniture instance and run a spatial join using the Clipper tool. Something like this:

Now, the confusing part.

  • The clipper attribute merge is telling me all the furniture are in just one room:

Why is that?

It works fine using an AreaOverlay, but I really need a 3D inclusion test...

Test IFC and my workspace:

Thanks.

Best answer by markatsafe

@ras this is an issue with FME and we'll try and fix it. In the meantime, if you connect the output of your SurfaceFootprintReplacer to the Clipper input port then I think it will give you a workaround

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takashi
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  • February 11, 2019

It seems to be a defect in the Clipper. I would recommend you to contact Safe support to clarify the issue.

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Why not inspect features with Visual/Data Preview and Feature/Record Information before writing them into a destination dataset?
ebygomm
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  • ebygommInfluencer
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  • February 11, 2019

It looks like the clipper geometries are actually getting rejected. I think you can only clip solids with solids. Still, it shouldn't give the appearance of having worked and features still exit via the inside port.

 

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  • ras
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  • February 11, 2019

@egomm Hi and thanks for the reply, I can replace the chair instances with a BoundingBox (solid), result stays the same.

I guess it's a bug, or the Clipper was never intended to be used this way?

Which is a reall bummer...

Now I wonder, if there is a way how run an inclusion test using Python. I think Scipy has a convex hull function.

But it's kind of crazy that I have to DIY. :(

 

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  • markatsafe
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  • February 11, 2019

@ras this is an issue with FME and we'll try and fix it. In the meantime, if you connect the output of your SurfaceFootprintReplacer to the Clipper input port then I think it will give you a workaround

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  • ras
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  • February 12, 2019

@ras this is an issue with FME and we'll try and fix it. In the meantime, if you connect the output of your SurfaceFootprintReplacer to the Clipper input port then I think it will give you a workaround

Thanks for letting me know.

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