Investigate crash in RasterDEMGenerator

It looks like your breaklines are very thin triangles which is throwing the RasterDemGenerator off. I've tried using a Tiler, set to a tile width of 50 in both directions. That at least makes it go through the RasterDemGenerator without errors (still warnings though).

Hi,

There are many thin trinagles indeed. Where did you add the Tiler (and did you change additional settings?). In the example workbench I provided, I placed the tiler between the reader and the RasterDemGenerator, connecting the Tiler output to the breaklines input. The RasterDemGenerator still failed, though.

That's where I placed the Tiler too. It works for me (FME 2021.2) with your settings as-is. Not sure what's causing the difference in behaviour to be honest. Any chance you can update your FME?

I'll give that a try. We are planning an update in the near future, we might push that a little in case this solves the problem....

I tried this with 2021.2.2, and for this small subset of triangles the Tiler did the trick.

However, when I applied this workaround to the complete set of triangles, other issues appeared and the validation failed. The error message was a little bit more verbose, but the rejected port of the RasterDEMGenerator was not used. This does not give me an option to correct errors (or choose different paths) when running the script.

I will stick to the PointCloudCombiner option for now, even though this is slower.

@Hans van der Maarel​ : thanks for the tips though!