Turning a mesh into a polygon

You could try a Triangulator. The Triangles port will give you individual triangle polygons. With a Dissolver (or if that gets too messy and you don't mind multipolygons, an Aggregator) you could glue the whole thing together.

Hi @redgeographics, the data contains a feature which has a MultiSurface geometry consisting of two Mesh geometries. A possible way is:

1. Deaggregator: MultiSurface -> individual Meshes
2. GeometryCoercer (Geometry Type: fme_composite_surface): Meshes -> CompositeSurfaces
3. GeometryPartExtractor: Extract polygon parts from the CompositeSurfaces, with this setting.

A some what less elegant but working alternative is:

1. Deaggregator
2. GeometryFilter (everything but NULL)
3. Triangulator >Triangles
4. Second Deaggregator
5. GeometryCoercer >fme_polygon

    

and voila, you have polygons.

Thanks @takashi, that did the trick. The data does come out in a local coordinate system but the prj file checks out and my mapping software seems to be able to put it in its right place.

Good to hear. Alternatively, a Deaggregator and a PythonCaller with this script could work more efficiently.

import fmeobjects
class MeshToPolygons(object):
    def input(self, feature):
        mesh = feature.getGeometry()
        if isinstance(mesh, fmeobjects.FMEMesh):
            vertices = mesh.getVertices()
            for part in mesh:
                indices = part.getVertexIndices()
                if indices:
                    boundary = fmeobjects.FMELine()vertices�i] for i in indices])
                    feature.setGeometry(fmeobjects.FMEPolygon(boundary))
                    self.pyoutput(feature)