As someone completely new to the world of FME, can anybody help with advice on the best way to style OS MasterMap in MapInfo professional .tab and AutoCAD .dwg?
I can create the raw output tables OK, but getting it to look nice is another matter! Also, I notice from other questions the issue of object order seems important in MI tab - is this something that needs to be added?
Any advice or sample workspaces to get me started gratefully received!
I recently finished a project styling up Mastermap. There may be better ways to do it but I just used the below transformers for styling.
Attribute filters > DWG Styler > DWG Writer
I had several attribute ffilters for selecting "featurecode", then "descriptivegroup". and "make" (if required). I also used an autoCAD template file in which I created autoCAD blocks (for use as symbols) and linetypes e.g dashed lines
I also had to put in a section at the start of the project to make sure the drawing levels were sorted for correct viewing in Autocad.
Mike
EGomm - if you could find the topo_line details that would be perfect!
This has given me line styles and polygon fill colours (this worked fine although I dont know if there is a better way of doing this as it took a long time to write)
Unfortunately I have not yet worked out how to style using the symbols for the Point and Symbol layers nor how to use the symbol fills (such as forest, marsh etc) for the 'Natural Environment' types. I would appreciate any help with this.