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Hello, I have a dwg file as attached, for some reason when import to FME form/workbench, it shows some hidden objects where I couldn't find at all in the DWG file. I also loaded the same file to ArcGIS Pro which didn't show these hidden objects and matches what the dwg looks in AutoCAD. The only way I could fix it is exploding the whole dwg file which will get rid of the mystic hidden objects from the dwg. I'm anyone has seen this before and also if FME developers could enhance the software to simply ignore these hidden objects like how it does in ArcGIS Pro. thank you.

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Just addressing your comment - "FME developers could enhance the software to simply ignore these hidden objects like how it does in ArcGIS Pro"

 

FME will read what it's given, in this case, the data exists in the DWG so FME will read it. It's not going to remove/not show data because another platform behaves like this. For everyone that wants data like this to be removed, there will be someone who wants it to be included.

 

The solution to your issue is to filter out those features that you don't want within the FME process. You can use a Tester or a TesterFilter to achieve this

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, in this case the dwg file is a bit tricky or dirty, I could not filter the unwanted features because it has identical cad attributes like on/frozen/plottable etc. as the features I want to keep. My temp solution is exploding the DWG in AutoCAD, and the unwanted features immediately gets removed somehow from the DWG file.

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