Running a Translation

To run a translation after you create your workspace, click OK in the New Workspace dialog, press Ctrl+R, or click

FME will begin the translation, and you’ll see information in the Translation Log.

The amount of time the translation takes depends on different factors that may include: the processing power of the FME host machine, the size of your dataset, and the amount of processing that FME has to do.

In most cases, however, a translation will take a few minutes at most, and upon completion, the Log will display Translation was SUCCESSFUL. You can scroll back through the log to check specific statistics.

  • Do you want to assign more CPU resources to speed up a translation? Select Translation Priority from the Tools | Options menu, and select High.

  • Do you want to make sure you can work on other tasks in the foreground while you're running a large translation?  Select Translation Priority from the Tools | Options menu, and select Low.

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What Next?

You have completed the steps involved in a performing a basic translation.

Unless you selected to save your workspace automatically (through the Tools > Options menu), you will be prompted for an output filename. A default filename will be offered, based on your source and destination formats (for example, dwg2dgn.fmw).

What if a Translation Fails?

If you see a message that says Translation Failed, the FME log will often be the best source to find out what went wrong. Usually it will be something simple, like a missing file. Sometimes, however, you will have to perform some troubleshooting on either your source data or on the transformer properties. A good way to troubleshoot is to Route your output to an interim FFS file, a Viewer, or a NULL output.

Information and Help

A good source of information and help is fmepedia.