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Developing in FME

"Out-of-the-box" not quite what you're looking for? Then flex your developer skills by extending or integrating FME to work on your terms.

With FME's flexible developer components and tools, you can:

  • Expand FME's capabilities to fit with your unique business needs and processes via the FME Objects SDK
  • Create a plug-in to read or write your application's proprietary format by using the FME Plug-ing SDK
  • Extend your application to read/write more formats when the FME Application Extenders find your applications installed.
  • Build a custom data transformer for FME using FME Workbench and then sharing it via the Network Resources settings
  • FME Server comes with a series of API's (.NET, C++, Java and REST) which allow you to easily intergrate our technology with both web and desktop applications.
Check out our developers page on the safe website for lots of links to useful resources and examples.

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Top Developing in FME Samples & Demos

  • PenBay Solutions: InVision Toolkit

    The InVision Toolkit is a third-party custom transformer from PenBay solutions available from the FME Store.

  • Extract Coordinates to Create a New Feature

    This custom transformer takes a user defined series of coordinates from an existing feature and creates a new feature from them.

  • Rulebase Pack of Custom Transformers

    The Rulebase Pack consists of two custom transformers: the RulebaseChecker and the RulebaseAttributeChecker. Each transformer takes incoming features and compares them to a set of rules de...

  • RelativeTiler

  • Example using the Custom Transformer Vectorizer to turn an image into points

    This custom transformer takes an image and turns it into a set of greyscale points.

  • Example of using the custom transformer - CustomTester

    CustomTester is a transformer designed for a particular use - where an attribute is set to a value of "unset" it will be changed to a simple null value.

  • AttributeParity

    AttributeParity is a custom transformer for checking the parity (odd/even) of attributes.

  • SequenceGenerator

    The transformer assigns random integer values to features in a given range, which is defined by the starting value and the number of features entering the transformer.

  • Cluster or Density Modelling

    I'm trying to render a hot spot map. Using other GIS systems, I can easily do a Kernel Density type analysis which will create contours of dense areas. How do I do this in FME?

  • Creating HTML for use with Bing Maps using the VirtualEarthHTMLCreator

    This custom transformer generates an HTML file, which is used for loading the Microsoft Bing Maps Environment, as well as produces tiles from the incoming raster(s) so that they can be wri...


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    Helpful Resources

    Check out the various documentation resources available on our website

    Search for references to python on our FMEPedia site

    Take a look at the various custom transformers already available from our support team or our customers

    Find answers to common problems when coding with FME Objects

    Take a look around the FME Server Developer Area