FME Plug-in sdk

Extend the capabilities of your FME solution with additional data format and transformer support. Use the flexible FME Plug-in SDK to create new reader and writer plug-ins (extensions) that will help you enhance the marketability of your new and existing applications.

With the FME Plug-in SDK, you can:

  • Add support for your application by connecting FME users to your custom spatial data format(s) - directly within FME
  • Make regional spatial data formats available to other FME users
  • Access legacy data sets for conversion into other spatial data formats
  • Create new workbench transformers to give users access to your own data transformation algorithms

Safe Software offers many FME plug-ins for additional data format and transformer support. View the list of available FME plug-ins (extensions) and transformers for more details.

Components

Build files
Header files and libraries needed to compile and link plug-ins

Documentation
Complete documentation, including sequence diagrams and detailed format specification (BNF), as well as test cases (mapping files and workspaces).

Sample Plug-ins
Sample reader, writer and transformer plug-ins based on Text Feature Store (TFS) - a robust sample format available in FME. The samples demonstrate the functionality required for virtually all format types and cover the following topics:

  • Rich geometry
  • Fixed and variable schema reading
  • Single and multi-channel writing
  • Settings dialog input
  • Coordinate system handling
  • UNIX Makefile
  • Microsoft Visual Studio projects

Licensing

The FME Plug-in SDK is included in the full release version of FME. To obtain the required licensing or to purchase FME, please contact us.

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