Dave Campanas

How to Enable Deprecated FDO Formats

IntroductionIn 2022, Safe deprecated the following reader/writers that were dependent on the Autodesk FDO components, since these were no longer being maintained and could not be relied upon to mee...

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• Updated June 03, 2026 22:00
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Hi greymedal,The geometry instances all point to the same definition, so using the GeometryPropertySetter to change a trait within that instance will force FME to replace the instance with a local ...

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• August 13, 2025 15:57
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Hi offi2404 offi2404,You can use the NeighborFinder transformer to find the closest road to the pole. The output poles will will have both a distance and bearing to the nearest road, so you can use...

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• July 24, 2025 22:02
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Hi Bradley Burrell,The error message suggests that the GDB may still be locked by arcpy, preventing the FeatureReader from reading it. Please try adding a Decelerator transformer between the Python...

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• March 06, 2025 21:04
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Simplifying IFC geometries for easier conversion

IntroductionFME's IFC reader attempts to closely reflect IFC's multi-level hierarchical data structure, with multiple geometry representations and property sets. However, this can make the data dif...

• Dave Campanas
• Updated November 25, 2025 20:47
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Integrating FME into Dynamo for Revit and Civil 3D

Introduction Dynamo is an automation tool for Autodesk Revit and Civil 3D that uses a visual process design interface, much like FME Workbench. It will likely be added to more Autodesk products in ...

• Dave Campanas
• Updated January 16, 2025 15:59
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