Hi,
I have some blank dwgs (templates) with layers and the properties (colour, linetype, lines weight etc etc) set in them. I'm reading the DWG and I've exposed these settings and I am trying to output them to an excel table for reporting.
EI
Layer :road
Colour: 0
Linetype: 1
etc etc
What I am finding is FME will read these settings on actual objects but not from the blank drawing.
Is there a way I can do this?
You could read the schema of the dwg instead of the dwg itself.
I must say i myself create templates by indeed adding one object per layer to hold the properties required. (also using fme to do this) .
You could read the schema of the dwg instead of the dwg itself.
I must say i myself create templates by indeed adding one object per layer to hold the properties required. (also using fme to do this) .
You could read the schema of the dwg instead of the dwg itself.
I must say i myself create templates by indeed adding one object per layer to hold the properties required. (also using fme to do this) .
Expose the relevant format attributes.
Basically as in the picture you posted.
There are a huge amount of format attributes in a autocad file, not all will be used (like grouping).
Also a lot of them can't be used or accessed by the fme reader/writer (afaik).
In fact to control a acad from fme you will need to create templates and use LISP.
If it is not mandatory to use fme, you might want to use the data extraction tool wich is built in Atocad.
(type DATAEXTRACTION on commandline, rest is selfexplanatory..)