Transformers

Hello,please, I need to solve one spicy problem. I have autocad_insert entity (block reference) composed by insert point and text point (label). Distance between these two point is variable, so I need to extract relative position of text point to block insert point. Is any possibility there to extract difference in X,Y?Thank You so much!Lubo

I have a CAD file with polygons representing areas of landscaping which I am going to export as a shape file after some manipulating. These polygons have multileaders with an area reference (as text) pointed towards them, and I am trying to give the polygons this text value. I would've liked to have used the Neighbor Finder transformer but the distance between the leader arrowhead and polygon isn't necessarily the same throughout.Any suggestions would be much appreciated.Katie

I have to fetch data from PV output website and for this I am using TimeStamp_StringSearcher. This is provided to me by my teacher and I dont know how to understand this:  cats = [[ A-Za-z0-9_@.\\/'#:,&+-]*]  When I run my fme scheme it says this error:  @Length -- Invalid argument -- ''6:15AM','6:30AM','6:45AM'.....  Kindly explain briefly  Thank you

Hi!I am trying to find the shortest paths between many points and one destination, any idea on how I can easiest do this? I would like to reach a similar effect as v.net.distance in QGIS. I have looked at shortestpathfinder and networkcostcalculator, but I cannot see how I should use them, or which other tools to combine them with, in order to reach my goal.

I am trying to create 3d block of the point cloud extents and not really getting anywhere. I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me in achieving thisThanks, Sam

I have a startup python script which runs perfectly fine with the previous FME 2017.0 version, but after I upgraded my old work space using the newest FME 2017.1.1 version, the work space failed to run. It gave me this warning message "The User-specified library C:\\Program Files\\FME\\fme.exe could not be loaded". I'm wondering if this has something to do with the installation of fme and python library. Also I have two error messages saying "Python Exception : No module named arcpy", "Error executing string `import os". Does this mean I have to reinstall arcpy library? Can anyone give me some suggestions?Appreciated it!

Dear expert of Dynamic Segmentation:I was using LineOnLineOverlayer for Dynamic Segmentation purpose, but it was giving me wrong attribute information. I've got 2 segments or event layers here, all with geometry:The ideal result I was looking for is:But the result generated by LineOnLineOverlayer is:Looking at the result in FME Inspector, the geometries of the 3 segments are at the right place, just the attributes are all messed up, specifically 1st and 2nd row. I didn't find too much information about using FME for linear referencing stuff, so I have to turn to this forum. I hope gio and takashi or anybody with previous experience could provide some insights on this. Much appreciated. Thanks!@gio @takashi aand  

Hey guys,I checked this post below:https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/56005/create-a-personalised-id-with-letter-and-number.htmlit helped me, but I need to use 3 letters (I will specify) and 6 numbers. I used counter to generate the numbers and used string replacer to add the letters I want. However, I need to add zeros between letters and numbers. I need to something like:ABC000001ABC000002.........ABC000011...ABC012341

Hi,I have 2 lines which overlap. Every line has start width and end width.Ex: line_id_1 with start_width 1m, end_width 5m, from measure 0 to measure 100Line_id_2 with start_width 2m, end_width 4m, from measure 50 to measure 80I’m using LineOnLineOverlayer to get 3 events from measure 0 to measure 50 and from measure 50 to measure 80 and from measure 80 to measure 100.What I need is to have the width of line_id1 from measure 0 to measure 50, also width from measure 50 to 80 and finally width from for the line_id_1.I used LineOnLineOverlayer, then listIndexer, then MeasureExtractor and then aggregator (the Aggregator is to get the information that I have 2 events from 50 to 80).It is not important to use the same approach, if there is another solution to do the overlap between the 2 lines. thanks

Hello! I have several fields in a file that contain consecutive spaces. I want to replace the consecutive spaces (generally just 2) with one single space. But I've tried several ways with String Replacer to denote 2 spaces and I can't seem to figure it out. Can anyone help?  Example: What I have: 123  Main  Street What I want: 123 Main Street

Hi!I've used the instructions on this page https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/21627/finding-percentage-of-a-area-within-other-areas.html (clipper), since I'd like to know how much recreational land is within a certain service area (buffer zone) of each city in a region. The problem is that the method in the link above does'nt work for this, as far as I know, since the geographical buffer zones of the cities overlap each other. I'd like the final result to be a file with all of the cities and an attribute column with a number for the amount of recreational land (hectar) available. I wonder if you could help me figure out how to achive this in FME? I am not looking forward to calculating this individually for each city, even though that would of course be an option.Thank you!

Version information: FME Desktop 2017.0.1.1 build 17291 win64 FME Server 2017.0.1.1 build 17291 win64In FME Desktop I created a linked custom transformer with looping capabilities. I saved the custom transformer as a fmx file, installed the file and implemented the transformer in an existing workspace. .After installation it was available in the workspace by searching for it on the canvas. When editing the transformer it opened correctly the right fmx file. That shows to me that linkage should be correct. Running the workspace in FME Desktop gives proper results.After that, I published the workspace to FME Server. During publishing, I selected the fmx file and picked as saving location the repository where the workspace would be saved. This is according to the steps in the FME Server documentation: http://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Server_Documentation/Content/AdminGuide/Sharing_FME_Engine_Resources.htm#Publish_with_WorkspaceI ended up on the above webpage via https://knowledge.safe.co

Hello Safers. Hope all is well.Im wanting to use the InlineQuerier to do a WITH RECURSIVE select.Trying to make a path from a tree stored in a relational model. Very much like this example: https://academy.vertabelo.com/blog/do-it-in-sql-recursive-tree-traversal/Unfortunately I found that WITH support is not in version 3.8.2 of sqlite (which looks like what FMEs is using) WITH support was added with 3.8.3. Are there any plans to upgrade with future releases of FME? Or some way to patch it. Any other suggestions or workarounds? I guess I could write to a different database that supports WITH and read back. However, I was trying stay all with file based tables. Thanks in advance.

I have a bunch of Microsoft Word file i want to count word in and the use the most common word with geographic content to generate a polygon where the word file is about.My problem is that i cant read a word file in FME. I have created all the workspace to do what i want but the problem is that i have like 2 000 word file and i dont want to convert all of the into txt.Do anyone have a solution to this?

Hi Everyone,First post, so be nice :)Just doing a simple task of checking for duplicates based on polygon id within a .TAB file, (eventually I want to output as a shapefile). It has returned two polygons... How can I now amend the id's of the duplicate polygons by adding say either a or b? I've got attribute manager but not sure where to go from here?Hope that makes sense :/Thanks very much.

Hello, I am working with an excel file with lots of field where I want to remove the space before and after a "/" eg. HWY 427 / North Queen St to HWY 427/North Queen St. I have been testing using the String Replacer where Text to replace: is ([A-Z])([A-Z]). Does anyone else have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Im using the AttributeValidator to test words appears in my .csv file. It finds the following no problem - raised defence (man-made), but it keeps failing for the following - sea defence (man-made), even thought it appears in the list to test for. I have checked spelling and made sure there are not any extra spaces but it doesnt seem to recognize the word in the .csv file. Has anyone else had a similar problem? 

Can someone give me a hand on the RegExpression to extract a bunch of coordinates from this XML table. The column they are stored in has a lot of other information in various formats.

I have a col A which has values from 1-5. Can we get the list of all values of col A from 1-5. If so, could you please help me with the logic.Thanks!

hi,Is it possible to use TaperLineBufferer to create a buffer to only the left or the right side of line?Thanks

Within AutoCAD / Civil3D it is possible to add metadata on block definitions, not being attributes. Somehow I cannot access these metadata fields in FME. Does any one have a solution for that?Figure 1. Blocks with attributes, this information is accessible within FME. Figure 2. Metadata information of selected block shown in Figure 1.  I have tried enabling user defined properties and XDATA, but somehow I cannot acces the metadata.I am using FME2017.1.1. The final goal is to write these metadata properties into a new dwg. I know I can add these as attribute properties to the block definition, but that is not what the user wants as its final result. Added you'll find the example DWG.

Bonjour,Je débute encore sur FME et ma question va peut être paraître idiote mais j'ai beau tourner les configurations dans tous les sens je n'arrive pas à trouver la solution.Je souhaite étiqueter des rues à partir du nom présent dans la table attributaire de mon tronçon de rue.Lorsque j'utilise MapTextLebeller j'ai, sous mes étiquettes, une série de ponctuel dont je n'arrive pas à me débarrasser. Savez-vous comment faire pour avoir uniquement les étiquettes sans les points lors de mon export?Merci d'avance!Cordialement,

Hi allIm struggling to hit a specific gml setup and for this I need to split up a line of coordinates every 4 coordinates (I have no idea why the gml has to be this way.). I guessing i need to use regular expressions but im stumped as to how to write one that gives the right result.an example string of coordinates that i have extracted using geometryextractor -> GML v2.1.2 looks like this:711744.265,6175978.47 711791.544,6175982.446 711792.0123,6175979.7872 711792.5482,6175976.5078 711772.1563,6175974.7882 711755.5244,6175973.3985 711755.7058,6175970.729 711758.604,6175934.878 711722.2771,6175932.0269 711681.914,6175928.848 711683.786,6175998.563 711704.5651,6176000.163 711742.48,6176003.089 711744.265,6175978.47but it needs to look like this for the gml to work for its intended purpose:711744.265,6175978.47 711791.544,6175982.446 711792.0123,6175979.7872 711792.5482,6175976.5078 711772.1563,6175974.7882 711755.5244,6175973.3985 711755.7058,6175970.729 711758.604,6