A Spotters Guide to Textured Formats in FME
A very short post about which formats in FME currently support the reading and writing of 3D textures and appearances.
Continue Reading April 19th, 2010
Posts filed under 'BIM'
FME2010: A New Odyssey
Here’s a reminder for you to pop out and buy a card to congratulate Don and Dale on the arrival of their new offspring: FME2010. As always, the parents are very proud - though slightly exhausted - and confident this new born will be a hit with all. In fact, I’m so smitten I’ve created a top-ten list of my favourite things about the new release.
Continue Reading January 12th, 2010
GeoNerds, Breadcrumbs, and 3D Georeferencing
Once upon a time, a geo-nerd converted spatial data into a 3D model. He (or she) wanted to record coordinate transformation parameters so the data could get home again. A trail of breadcrumbs didn’t work, nor did a WLD file. So a fairy godmother from Safe Software waved a magic wand, and….
Continue Reading November 30th, 2009
Raster and Collada: A City Model View of the World
This post is on the subject of city models and how to bring together CAD, GIS, BIM, DEM, raster and other types of spatial data to create a single model. This example includes 3D buildings, DEM draping, rasterization, reprojection, and writing out to PDF - and all in just 13 transformers!
Continue Reading November 13th, 2009
FME Evangelist: Now Playing in 3D
Contents:
3D terminology: A question!
Sketchup Reading: Now Supported in FME2010 beta,
V1 Magazine: White Paper on 3D Data models,
3DBoundingBoxReplacer: Custom Transformer for 3D Bounding Cubes.
This FME Evangelist reverts to a truer blog-style; a short post on a single subject. This time out I’m talking about all things 3D: terminology, formats, theory, and practice.
Continue Reading March 23rd, 2009
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