Transformers

HiI am currently looking to create a CityGML model of the buildings in a specific area using various spatial data. I have followed this tutorial Point Cloud to 3D Terrain Model with Buildings and obtained an Adobe 3D PDF model of the buildingsBut I now want to convert this model into a CityGML LOD2 model. Is this possible?Since I have just started using FME and am not very familiar with the software, what should my next steps be? Could you provide some useful references? Thanks for your advice😊

I have a segmented column (basically stacked barrels of varying height) and 3D points “floating” within that column. How can I join the points to their containing segments? I made a few attempts but the results suggest FME only checks for X/Y and not Z.By join I mean the solids acquiring their corresponding points’ attributes, looks like the weird “x-on-x-overlayer”, etc, transformer names unfortunately survived the overhaul 😒 (unrelated: signing up with a too long username gives a wrong “not allowed characters” error in the sign up form)

Hi,  When creating offsets from a line in DWG - is it possible to use an excel table for the offset distances?  Excel table is 2 columns (“offset #” and “offset distance”) and 100+ rows (offset-1, offset-2...) containing negative and positive numbers. I looked up offset related posts but couldn’t figure out how I could make excel work. I am using 2023.2 version and the offsetcurvegenerator has left/right inputs. Do I read the excel, then split it into positive and negative, then connect them to left / right each?    

Hello, I have a master survey layer on ArcGIS online that will be continuously updated during the summer field season. I also have a master environmental layer that on AGOL that needs to be updated daily from the master survey layer. I know the steps to do this (attribute manager, change detection, etc) but I am running into problems when trying to ensure the attachments from the survey are included when appended to the master layer. The attachments do not transfer and we need those pictures in the master layer. How can I use FME to set this up?Thank you. 

Hi folks,I have the following error when I run my Workbench project : 2020-04-17 08:05:41| 785.3| 0.0|ERROR |SpatialRelator_15_Output Feature Recorder -1 2147615062(RecorderFactory): File C:\\Apps\\fme\\FME18578_32b\\metafile\\searchEnvelopeNative.fmi could not be opened 2020-04-17 08:05:41| 785.3| 0.0|ERROR |File C:\\Apps\\fme\\FME18578_32b\\metafile\\searchEnvelopeNative.fmi could not be opened 2020-04-17 08:05:41| 785.3| 0.0|ERROR | I've read some other articles about similar posts here, but I did what was suggested (FME Options > Translation > Log Message Filter and unchecked "log Debug") I'm using an FME Professional Suite (FME 2018.1.1.1, build 18578 - 32 bits). Even in a 64 bits version, the error message is still there. You can see that it begins to write datas, but then stop.The log file is attached and the error messages are line 9611 a

I am trying to to transfer records with jpg file attachments between two seperate AGOL hosted feature services. The source has also has point geometry which is stripped out prior to passing into the target table. I've been able to create the target table by using the AGOL feature writer, but I'm unable to access the attachments - even though I've exposed the attachment attributes and ticked the "include attachments" parameter in the feature reader.Does anyone have a working example of this transformation?Thanks in advance,Brett

Hi,I have multiple features, for each I need use an Oracle sequence to get the ID of the feature.Then I need to write the feature to the database. The ID must be unique.I have used a SQLExecutor to obtain the sequence next value. I am struggling when there are multiple features to write. FME is executing the SQLExecutor multiple times before getting single value for the ID. I need to process each feature at a time i.e. run through SQLExecutor, get the feature ID and write feature to database, then proceed to next feature. Any suggestions ?  

 I want all columns from the excel sheet in the table, not selecting them one by one in the column settings, is that possible?

Enverus’s Developer API has a custom header option to change the location of next link from the header to the body. When I put X-Omit-Header-Next-Links in the header of Postman I get the expected response: Results from Postman​​​​​putting X-Omit-Header-Next-Links in the header of HTTPCaller seems to be ignored as no next link is in the response body and the link remains in the response headers.HTTP Caller with X-Omit-Header-Next-LinksBottom of response body in Form

Another one from my daily work:Is there any chance to find “spikes” in elevation to avoid situations like this in 3d view? I already found that there is spike remover but my job is to only find them.Red lines are bridges and they should look like a little bit smoother :)Attribute which they are based on is “F_ELEV” and “T_ELEV” Please help me with identifying such situation using FME.Shapefile with this situation: 

Hello everyone,Based on the following video I was delving a bit into the Classifier transformer in combination with the FeatureColorSetter and I was quite pleased with the possibility of coloring polygons based on a class.I assume making maps such as traditionally done in arcgis pro, is currently not possible in FME.However, since it's now possible to create chloropeth maps or give classes random colors now based on classes generated by the Classifier Transformer, I  was thinking it might be a nice step in the direction of being able to create maps in FME. My wish would be as follows:You could for example use the classes id (generated by the Classifier transformer) and a label for the classes id to create the legend for the map.A title can then be filled in by the user and maybe a scale bar can automatically be generated based on th

I have a dgn Model and it’s meshed there are some mesh elements in the model but FME is not recognizing them. AppearanceRemover is rejecting them, Geometry FIlter is returning them as null geometry. These elements are visible in microstation and looking absolutely fine. MISSING_GEOMETRY_APPEARANCE  This the rejection code from APpearnce Remover and if I skip Appearnce Remover and pass it to geometry filter it returns the featurs as Null.

Hello everyone.. i am trying to use the GIS functionality of Union 3d in the FME. can you please advise which transformer can support this , since the normal union and joins  for features and data will join data level. below is the Union 3D functionality of GIS ESRI.https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/3d-analyst/union-3d.htmthank you in advance. 

Hello guys,Has anyone ever encountered the following problem: I need to find such situations in my data. It’s not a typical gap between polygons and that is a problem for me. Let’s call it “partial gap”. Maybe someone already had similar problem and found a solution?Thanks in advance!Shapefile with this case: 

Trying to extract data via a CRM API. Stuck (401 errors for authentication in the FME logs) on our internal CRM api with FME. I can query the API using a web browser after authentication. I've also tried without success to authenticate with FME's ODATA reader with a similar authentication issue.the URL example is:https://MYSITE/api/data/v8.1/TABLE?When login works in a web browser there is a redirect (an active directory account is used) i believe this is using OAuth2 authentication.Any advice or hints would be appreciated. I have reviewed other posts on this form but have not been able to find a solution. thanks for the help!

Hey,Is there is no transformer for Geocode in Transformer gallery rather than take it from hub 

I’m looking at a workflow wherein the start point is this: Underwater photo manually copied into Powerpoint Measurement grid overlaid Percentage cover of different plant species estimated by eye Results copied to ExcelI haven’t dabbled in CV at all within FME, just read this blog - and this may be jumping in the deep end - but am wondering if this scenario might be a candidate? 

Hello,  I am struggling to read a very simple table from a PDF, I just want to have something in the output. I have turn on only the "Read Tagged Tables" in the Reader's parameters, but nothing is coming out from it. The reader is not being created in my window. I have created a special table from excel in PDF to be sure that the table was fine. It looks simple in the FME presentation... https://www.safe.com/convert/geospatial-pdf/excel/ Could someone git me a hint about what am I doing wrong?  Thanks! My simple PDF with its readable table: My Reading parameters:

I have a collection of photos and a point layer in SHP (Shapefile) format. I aim to replicate the functionality of 'Enable Attachments' from ArcGIS Pro. Specifically, I want to associate each photo with its corresponding point on the map based on matching the photo file names with a column in the point layer. Is that possible? What transformers should I use?

Am sure am missing out some step or obtain right setting. I am trying to extract points that fall inside or intersect 3D Cube .  I am also getting points as an output that are not within 3D Cube .     Please note: 3D is cube is multi-surface with different shapes and its IFC file.  I shall be highly obliged with FME Community expert to help me with their know-how and expert

I am new to JSON, I’ve read the guides on here and have tried several ways to sort this without success.I’m using a JSON Reader to read from a file.The table has just three columns: OBJ; TIMESTAMP; and PK1.However, there are 114 attributes I can see in the Feature Information window which I need to bring into the table. (I am hoping ultimately that I won’t need 114 attributes!) As you can see I have tried the 4 transformers listed but without success. The answer might be to configure one of them correctly or link one to the next… but over to you clever folks to see if anyone can come up with the answer.Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom. :-)  

Hello every one i have excel file saved in microsoft sharepoint, i need to read this file and update some attrbute without dowloading this file to my pc and update and upload again, i need to read and update directly in the file Thanks

HiWhile converting an existing chain of workspaces from 2022.1 to 2024.0 version i ran into this issue:The current FME process locale has been changed from 'Norwegian Bokmål_Norway.utf8' to 'C' and FME has restored it back to 'Norwegian Bokmål_Norway.utf8'. It is undefined behavior to call 'setlocale()' in plugin code and doing so may cause unexpected errors..Python version 3.12 loaded successfullyPython: There is a known Windows bug that may cause instability when using Python in the current locale. Please update to Windows 10 version 2004 and greater, or to Windows Server 2022. See http://fme.ly/nw5 for more detailsC:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Safe Software\FME\Packages\24187-win64\python\safe.azurestorage\azure\storage\blob\_deserialization.py:657: SyntaxWarning: "is" with 'int' literal. Did you mean "=="?  elif num_empty_lines is 2:

Good morning all - hoping that you can help me; I’ve got a fairly lengthy workbench which we run daily updating our internal data warehouse from a variety of sources. due to the complexisty, there are several no features testers included in the workbench which continue the translation when no data feeds in at certain points. However, there are certain instances where we would want the translation to stop (no new source file available, source system not ready for update etc.). We currently use terminators in order to stop the subsequent no features testers from triggering - however it would make it easier for us to keep on top of our monitoring if this didn’t then appear as a failed job in our server log - is there any alternative way of stopping the translation without it appearing as a fail? 

I'm building a data validation tool and utilising the AttributeValidator heavily as part of the process. There are a couple of attributes that are "optional" but have an associated list of valid values (field validation/domain). This means they are allowed to be null, but if they have a value, it must be one of the pre-defined valid values.  I'm hoping to use the Conditional Value option for Rule Configuration as below:  However, upon running the workbench, FME terminates and the translation fails immediately due to "unbalanced quotation marks on line XXXX of file <workbench directory>\\wb-xlate-1700200438336_13788". Is this a bug or is my conditional value rule configuration just incorrect?