From the course: FME Desktop: Data Translation for AEC
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Chaining transformers
From the course: FME Desktop: Data Translation for AEC
Chaining transformers
- [Instructor] You can perform some advanced modification to your data by chaining different transformers together linearly. So let's try that. First of all, I'm going to open Workbench and start a brand new workspace and drag and drop the parcels.sdf into my brand new session. I'm going to add a reader, click okay. And there's my default parcel boundaries. There they are. Let's preview what that data looks like by hitting the little tiny button, you see it right above the data source there. It'll say view source data, click on that. It'll put a visual preview at the bottom of your screen. First, you'll see all the attribute data, but there's about 40,000 parcels here. So it takes a minute to index, and then it will show you all the graphics. There they are on the side. So you can see this on the bottom right. There's all the graphics, all 40,000 parcels. What I'm really interested in though here is the column called…
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