Category:Universal Translator FAQ

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This is the main index page for FAQ relating to the FME Universal Translator

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Subcategories

There are 12 subcategories to this category.

A Archived FAQ B Beta Version FAQ C Coordinate System Problems FAQ Custom Coordinate System FAQ

E Environment Variable FAQ F FME Internals FAQ I Installation FAQ L Licensing FAQ U Unix-Linux FAQ

W Windows 3GB Switch FAQ Windows NT FAQ Windows XP FAQ

Articles in category "Universal Translator FAQ"

There are 32 articles in this category.

C Can FME provide commands/options in the FME mapping file to read the catalog file itself and extract fields from within it Can I use FME Objects to run an FME mapping file or a Workbench workspace D Does FME carry out any internal geometry operations that I should know about Does FME process features on an individual basis or as a group - How might this affect my translation process F Feature Type Formats and Licenses H How can I transform shape text to dgn How can I translate from Shape to DGN using MSLINK attribute table How do I know what FME edition, license, build or version I am running How is precision handled within FME - How might this affect geometric processing

I I can’t find the format I want in the formats drop-down list – why If I have a multi-reader mapping file that uses, for example, 3 input E00 files, can I include something that will enable the translation to decide whether or not to use all readers If I’m typing a format name into FME do I give it the format name, product name or file extension In what order are my output datasets written. Is there any control over how this occurs Is it possible to encrypt a mapping file Is it possible to use an environment variable in a dataset path in FME Is there any way to remove formats or coordinate-systems from the drop-down list of recently used M My translation log reports a lot of FME processing time is spent writing to temporary FFS files. How can I avoid this P Performance Tuning FME S Should I use Workbench or the Universal Translator for my translations Spatial Predicates

S cont. Startup and Shutdown Scripts T The BADNEWS function returns a whole load of errors. What do they mean and should I be worried The error messages that FME reports rarely give a clear indication of what is wrong and why. Can you improve them W What can I use FME for What is the cause of the following error message - ERROR (NULL) returned from feature vector; we expected a valid object What is the difference between the functions @TCL() and @Tcl2() Whats Great 2007 Whats Great 2008 Whats Great 2009 Why does the translation log say FME only took 0.1 seconds when the process lasted nearly seven minutes Why should I be concerned about datums