3DPointReplacer

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3DPointReplacer is a Workbench Transformer.

Replaces the geometry of the feature with a three-dimensional point whose ordinates are taken from attributes in the original feature. If the feature was originally a text feature, it remains a text feature but its insertion point is moved. All other features become point features.

Each of the parameters may either be entered as a number, or can be taken from the value of a feature attribute by selecting the attribute name from the pull-down list.

Additional vertices can later be added to the resulting feature using the 3DPointAdder transformer.

Note that the SurfaceDraper transformer (available in FME Professional and higher) can be used to supply interpolated elevation values based on a 3D grid or set of 3D features to the vertices of 2-dimensional features.