Hello Urs, > the fme help says in the Autocad Writer Overview Chapter: > > <<Automatic Block Creation: When a feature is passed to the writer that > cannot be written as a single AutoCAD entity, such as a donut polygon, > the writer automatically defines an AutoCAD block and inserts entities > necessary to represent the feature.>> > > my question concerning donut polygons: how can I avoid this automatic > block generation or filter and "unblock" such a block later on to get > two polygons instead?
As far as I know, that's not possible. However, you may want to experiment with cutting up the donut polygons into smaller, simple, polygons. I've created a custom transformer that sort-of does that (it works okay with small donuts, but if you get really intricate donuts and multiple-donuts-within-a-donut, it gets lost... You can try it out here: http://www.redgeographics.com/donutkiller.php Hope this helps. -- Hans van der Maarel Red Geographics www.redgeographics.com / [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
