Hello John, Happy new year to you too. I hope I'll be able to make it a little more happy with this response.
Starting on the negative side though, I don't believe FME supports the entities unique to the Architectural desktop. I understand that the library we use does support it, so I guess there is the potential to add this ability at a later date. On the positive side, there are a couple of workarounds we can try. The first is that the older Autodesk reader did support proxies, and we can try that to see if it helps. When you browse for a source dataset, the formats gallery has a column called 'short name'. The current DWG reader has a short name of "ACAD". What you need is one with the name "DWG". What you'll have to do to see it though, is re-expose it - since it's deprecated it will have been hidden. In your FME install directory there's a file called formats.db - open it in a text editor and locate the DWG format. Delete the last field - ie the last three characters which will be "|NO". Restart FME and this format will now be available to try. The one thing about this is that it was designed for ACAD2000, so you may need to revert your original file to that version if you can (try it without anyway, but...) The second point is that when you chose "export to Autocad 2007 format" I suspect that the output was saved in DWF and not DWG format. Regan in the development team tells me... "DWF does not store entities like DWG does, but more in the style that was described, with many small parts combining to make the general shape of the entities" ...so it looks like this won't work unless there is another export option that gives DWG without the proxy entities. Hope this helps. If you'd like me to file an enhancement request to have proxy reading implemented then I'd be happy to do this, but obviously I can't guarantee if or when it would be implemented. Since we're close to a release, I'd have to say that it's unlikely to be a quick fix. Regards, Mark Mark Ireland, Senior Product Specialist Safe Software Inc. Surrey, BC, CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.safe.com Solutions for Spatial Data Translation, Distribution and Access --- In [email protected], "bbs_bbp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Happy new year, everyone! > > As mentioned by FME supporter, FME2007beta is supporting DWG2007 > file (produced by Autodesk Architecture Desktop07). I am trying to > read the DWG file and write it to GML format. > > I am using: FME2007 built 4207. DWG 2007 Format. > There are four wall objects and two windows objects(on one of the > walls) in the DWG file, and they are 3D objects. > > Then I added wall layer and window layer as the source dataset, and > two GML destination sets. When i executed it to GML file by FME, i > could successfully get two GML files. With the successful > information of FME like "2 windows features and 4 wall features were > written...". But When i opened the files, there were only correct > feature numbers, but without any geometry information. > In the log window, some blue sentences "AutoCAD2004 entity > type 'AcDbProxyEntity' not supported" happened. > > So I played around and tried to find another way. Later, i found if > i exported my DWG data by Autodesk Architecture Desktop07 "export to > Autocad 2007 format", and followed the same above steps. I could get > two GML files with geometries. But the geometries were not in order, > that means, for wall.gml there were around 90 gml surfaces. Those > geometries together consisted the two windows, but people could not > recognize which gml surface belongs to which window... That is not > people wants. > > For my point of view, in the second way, the geometries were > exploded with another foramt, so that FME handled them correctly. > But i am not sure about that, because i am just a new FME user. > Anyway, i still have not reached my aim, to have the GML files with > two windows containing correct geometries. > > Any help is much appreciated! > > John > For insights into what's up at Safe Software and what's on the development horizon, visit Safe's blog at spatial-etl.blogspot.com. Safe Software has also made slides available that outline enhancements planned for FME 2007. The slides are from the "Road Ahead" presentation given on Day 2 of the FME Worldwide Users Conference. To view these slides, visit www.safe.com/2006uc. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fme/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fme/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
