Hi Hugh, I very much suspect that igds_text_num_lines is a read only parameter, and that setting it will have no effect on the output. There's nothing in the Readers + Writers manual to confirm that, but I'm >90% certain that's the case.
I know more about DGN than GeoDatabase so my first advice is this. Route your translation directly to the Viewer (using destination redirect in the navigation pane > workspace settings). Check the data there. Is there anything that indicates how the text is being split up? If it's incorrect here then it is the GeoDatabase reader you need to be concentrating on. If it's correct then the DGN writer is the issue. To write multi-line text to DGN requires use of a list - a list is FME's way of permitting multi-values for a single attribute. There is an example workspace on fmepedia.com (http://www.fmepedia.com/index.php/Text_Node_Creation) that shows how to do this. Basically each line of text needs to be an item in a specifically named list. OK - I think that will help for a start. The Readers and Writers Manual (part of the FME help) has a lot of info about the format attributes you need to set for this sort of transformation so I'd suggest it is required reading. Regards, Mark Mark Ireland, Product Support Engineer Safe Software Inc. Surrey, BC, CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.safe.com Solutions for Spatial Data Translation, Distribution and Access --- In [email protected], "hughblackstock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Can anyone explain how the igds_text_num_lines attribute works when > creating a microstation V8 design file? What it bases the break on? > > I have some road name annotations in a geodatabase that need to be > transformed into something that looks similar in a design file. I'm > using the igds_text_num_lines to break the label into two parts > (using a constant of '2' as an input) and for the most part it works > well. > > However for some roads it breaks it into three... e.g. 'The Strand' > becomes "The" one line "St" second line and "rand" the third line. > Another "Gladstone Road" becomes "Glad" 1st "stone" 2nd " Road" is > 3rd. I'd like to see if I can get this working before I have to try > and create multi line text... > > Thanks, > > Kind regards, > > Hugh. > Get the maximum benefit from your FME, FME Objects, or SpatialDirect via our Professional Services team. Visit www.safe.com/services for details. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fme/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
