Hi Erik, The problem here (as I see it) is one that seems to arise fairly often, but for which there isn't really a sensible solution for us to implement.
First things first, you don't need to GeometryCoercer - the Chopper will correctly set everything to be points. OK - the main problem is that there are two sets of attributes that define a feature; format attributes and fme attributes. The fme attributes begin fme_ and are the ones used and processed in a workspace. The format attributes begin with the format name, eg autocad_, and are only used by the reader/writers. Here the Chopper is chopping up the lines, and assigning fme_geometry=fme_point. However it is not touching autocad_entity which remains at autocad_line. When this reaches the writer it is interpreted as a single point line which throws an error. The problem only occurs when reading and writing to the same format - what I'd suggest is removing the autocad_entity attribute with the AttributeRemover (or maybe get rid of all source autocad attributes with the AttributeExpressionRemover). I hope that would solve the problem. Hope this helps - if you're still having problems then let us know via [EMAIL PROTECTED] (assuming you have a valid AMC) 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], "erikburn1969" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have some Autocad lines which I want to chop into points and output > to a new autocad files. I fail following this procedure: > > 1. Use chopper with "Maximum Vertices" set to 1 > 2. Output points are run through a "GeometryCoercer" to fme_point > > When the output is written to AutoCAD output files I get the following > error message, and not features are output: > > > Below feature must have at least 2 coordinates. > > ... > > The feature does indeed have 2 coordinates. When I place a visualizer > before the AutoCAD output features everything views as points as > expected. However FME fails to write to the AutoCAD files because it > thinks the features are lines with only one coordinate. > I have tried to also manually set the "autocad_entity" attribute, but > to no help. > > Any hints what I am doing wrong? > > erik > Join us at the FME Worldwide User Conference Sept. 21-22, 2006 Vancouver BC Canada. For more information, visit www.safe.com/2006uc. 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/
