Hi;
I hope the UC is going well. I wish I could be there but.....
I'm reluctant to post this as I'm sure that I'm either missing
something really simple or what I want is impossible but either way,
it's making me pull out the little bit of hair I have left so here
goes:
I've created a workbench file that translates a .dgn file into a
series of shapefiles. The .dgn features are filtered according to
their geometry type, igds_level and other attributes and put into
shapefiles as streams, roads, or what have you. This is a task that
needs to be done often and by a variety of people with a variety of
skill levels so I saved the workbench file (.fmw) as a mapping file
(.fme), set up a nice GUI and distributed it amongst my colleagues.
The problem is that some of the end users of this bullet-proof
mapping file have got FME2005 on their machines and I've created it
using FME2006 (Build 2182). When it's run with the 2005 versions, it
almost finishes but just before the end, FME stops (the log file
says "Translation complete" but the shapefiles are not created) and
Windows provides a vague message suggesting that there's a problem
with FME EXE and I should tell Microsoft about the problem. If I run
the same file using my FME2006 version, the process is smooth and the
outputs are fine.
I've tried creating a custom translator from the FME2006 workbench
file and opening it with FME2005 but that's even worse the machine
hung up for about 2 minutes but eventually opened the .fmw. When it
did, some connections were scrambled, some transformers were missing
(well, at least a bufferer was missing), etc.. I'm not using any
transformers that are not in FME2005 but maybe although they're named
the same they may have subtle differences in their functionality. I'm
going to re-create the workbench file using FME2005 and see if I can
make that work.
Does anyone know of a way in which I can save my file as a mapping
file so that it's compatible with older versions of FME? Does anyone
have any suggestions for alternatives? (i.e. Editing the mapping
file, replacing the XX transformer with a YY transformer, setting the
bufferer to <fill in the blank>, etc.).
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