This FME Evangelist is about standardization of FME terminology, and what the term “Group-Based Transformation” really means. Quite a bit as it turns out.
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.
Contents:
FME2009: The Small Stuff,
Transformer Defaults: A Reminder and An Update,
FME2009 Example: MeasureExtractorToZ,
Your Spy at Safe: Inspector Gadget,
Sketchup! Did I see that right?
Feature Types to Read: Now More Dynamic!
2009 FME International User Conference: Update.
This Friday afternoon (Pacific Time) the FME Evangelist gives you some weekend reading on the top FME2009 updates you probably never noticed, and drops some very hot-off-the-press information your way regarding a successor to the venerable FME Universal Viewer. Yes you heard (and saw) it here first! Plus there’s the reveal of a terrific update to the Feature Types to Read parameter.
Contents:
XQuery: Reading XML Contents,
XQuery: Handling a Metadata Repository,
Fun Stuff: FME2009 Wallpapers,
Your Spy at Safe: New Tester Sneak Preview,
FME Blog: New and Updated!
This fine week the FME Evangelist highlights some FME2009 XML functionality that anyone might want to use. Plus we explore reading and writing to a CSW metadata repository and take a sneak peak into development of a new Tester transformer.