I'm no DWG expert, but in your example I think you're going to be writing all SHP to the same DWG just with different layer names.

A better approach would be to enable fanout on your writer (right click on the writer under the navigator and select Edit Parameters)

catmoody,

To do your conversion - if that's all u are doing, you do not necessarily need a workspace runner.

Anyway, you could try:

Use

FilenamePartExtractor Transformer

This will give you useful attributes of all your input files especially eg _rootname. These will be your source shapefile names. You can then use these attributes to build the output filenames of your DWGs

User Parameter

create a user parameter for output folder eg OUTPUT_FOLDER

Output - Writer

Output location and filename can then be defined by output folder (user param) and input shapefile name

(_rootname) to create multiple CAD files eg

$(OUTPUT_FOLDER)\\@Value(_rootname).dwg

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Currently, yes it appears as if u are fanning out - so as to produce CAD layer names from your input shapefile names - all in a single CAD file

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Anyway,

hope this helps, gives u some ideas

Howard L'

Thank you both. There was information from both replies that helped me solve this. As Howard indicated, I did not need a workspace runner to accomplish it, but based on hkingsbury's recommendation, I did use the fanout. I was still passing fme_basename just like in my first screen shot so I was able to use that in the dwg writer. The two screen shots below show the configuration I used.