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Converting Areas, Ellipses and Arcs to lines,


jamal
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Converting Areas, Ellipses and Arcs to lines,

 

 

I couldn’t figure out which transformation tools can convert Areas, Ellipses and Arcs to Lines such that they are collected in one ESRI feature class (polyline type).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you

 

 

 

Best

 

 

Jamal

Best answer by takashi

Because the Intersector outputs line geometries from Intersected port.

 

 

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david_r
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  • May 5, 2014
Hi,

 

 

you can use the ArcStroker for this. In some cases you might also want to add a GeometryRefiner to merge contiguous paths/segments into a single geometry before writing it.

 

 

David

jamal
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  • May 5, 2014
Many thanks David for the help. Arcs and ellipses are converted to Areas\\Lines

 

 

 

 

Now, how lines can be converted to polygons or vice versa? In the ArcGIS, all types of features can be conveted to one another.

 

 

 

 

In FME:

 

 

How lines are converted to polygons?

 

 

How polygons are converted to lines?

david_r
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  • May 5, 2014
Hi,

 

 

you can use the GeometryCoercer to convert to/from lines and polygons.

 

 

For non-closing polylines, you can use the LineCloser first.

 

 

David

takashi
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  • May 6, 2014
Hi Jamal,

 

 

There are many transformers, I think you can do almost all geometric manipulations you want. For example, regarding the image of Feature To Polygon tool, "LINE INPUT" is equivalent to the Intersector + AreaBuilder and "POLYGON INPUT" is equivalent to the AreaOnAreaOverlayer.

 

 

 

Takashi

jamal
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  • May 6, 2014
Thank you David and Takashi for the massive help,

 

 

All commands you have provided are very useful. I couldn’t figure out why the “AreaOnAreaOverlayer” doesn’t work? Which special inputs must be provided to this transformer?

 

 

 


takashi
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  • Best Answer
  • May 6, 2014
Because the Intersector outputs line geometries from Intersected port.

 

 


jamal
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  • May 6, 2014
Perfect. It works fine.

 

 

 

 

Very much appreciated

 

 

Best

 

 

Jamal

jamal
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  • May 6, 2014
I couldn’t choose BOTH answers (David and Takashi)  as best answers.

gio
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  • May 6, 2014
hi,

 

 

 

You might want to keep in mind that arcstroking may lead to loss of topology ( if that is important that is).

jamal
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  • May 9, 2014
Thanks Gio for the input.

 

 

Sure, I consider that some transformers do change the geometry of objects (features).

 

 

Best

 

 

Jamal

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