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nWith Mark Stoakes, George Crowe, and David Ellerbeck

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S A F E S O F T W A R E

Colonial Pipeline Company

Colonial Pipeline Company –

Business Overview & Safety Share

• Interstate common carrier of refined

petroleum products

• Over 5,500 miles of pipeline stretching

from Houston to New York

• Headquartered in Alpharetta, GA

• Transports approximately

100 million gallons per day: – Gasoline

– Home heating oil

– Diesel fuel

– Commercial jet fuel

– Military fuels

Staffing Constraints…

Over 5,500 Miles

of Linear Assets

~ 215 Facilities

Supported by over 20 Engineering &

Design Contracting Firms

Infrastructure Managed with

~75 Engineers & Project Mgrs.

Asset Data Managed Utilizing

6 CAD/GIS SME’s

(1 Mgr., 3 GIS, 2 CAD)

CAD/GIS Team Project Manager Contractor

Color Legend:

Standards Validation w/i the AutoCAD®

Environment

CAD/GIS Team audits

the drawing files using

AutoCAD.

Contractor self-audits the

As-Built drawings and

submits them to a

secured server.

Beginning of

Process

CAD/GIS Team compiles

an audit report.PM approves As-Built

Data to be submitted to

the CAD/GIS Team

Standards Validation w/i the AutoCAD®

Environment

Standards Validation w/i the AutoCAD®

Environment

CAD Team audits the

drawing files using

AutoCAD.

Contractor self-audits the

As-Built drawings and

submits them to a

secured server.

Beginning of

Process

CAD Team compiles an

audit report and takes

appropriate action.

PM approves As-Built

Data to be submitted to

the CAD Team

Standards Validation w/i the FME

Environment

FUTURE DEPLOYMENT

FME Validator auto-runs and

generates an audit report which

is delivered to the Contractor

and Corporate personnel

PM approves

As-Built Data to be

submitted to the

CAD Team

Contractor uploads

the As-Built drawings

to a secured server.

CAD Team executes

the validation tool on

the drawing files.

CAD Team reviews

the audit report and

takes appropriate

action.

Contractor uploads

the As-Built drawings

to a secured server.

If audit results are

acceptable the CAD

Team takes custody

of the drawings.

If audit results are not

acceptable the

Contractor corrects

and resubmits the

drawings.

Standards Validation outside of the

AutoCAD® Environment

• Automation– External of AutoCAD

• Scalability– PC based and/or

Server based

• Cost– Time Reduction

• Customization– Pertinent to Industry or

Corporate specific standards

– Evolve with business processes

– Error logging, correction, and

notification… Our solution? …

FME

Reading CAD (DWG) Files

Robust DWG reading capabilities• Obvious: geometry (2D and 3D), layers, line types,

etc…

• Blocks

• Block Attributes

• Text

• Extended entity data

• Paper and model space

• Insertions

Extract

Manipulation of CAD

Objects and Entities

• Works just like other data types– Spatial Data

• Manipulation• Comparison• Replacement

– Tabular Data• Logical Tests• Data Integration• Queries, aggregation, formulas• Aggregation and reporting

Transform

Write to almost any

supported data type

• Back to CAD

• To Database

• To GIS

• To …

Load

Our Approach

StandardsBased

Well Documented CAD Standard

Repeatability

Same results every time

Emphasis on Automation

Minimize human intervention

Reporting Orientation

Identify and report

What Does it Mean in FME?

Out of the box transformers

Replicated logical tests

“Custom” transformers (sub-routines)

Standardized reporting approaches

Let’s look at

it…

Known Limitations of FME for CAD

Data Validation…

• Writing to multiple Layouts

within a single CAD file

• Plot Parameters are not

supported

– FME is not intended to be

used for hardcopy output

Your Imagination!

Thank You!

Full Presentation

David Ellerbeck,

david.ellerbeck@globali

nformationsystems.com

George Crowe,

gcrowe@colpipe.com

Questions?

Compliance Validation QA/QC

- Trust & Verify -

The spectrum of compliance

• Schema / Data Model

• Attributes

• CAD / GIS 2D Geometry

• 3D Geometry

• Topology

• Networks

• …

Single Item Validation

GeometryValidator

Comparative Validation

SpatialRelator

Improving Data Compliancy Using

FME

• City of Kitchener, near Toronto.

• Centralized GIS in ESRI SDE

environment.

• Maintain ~400 GIS layers

• User of FME for last ~8 years.

David van Riel- GIS Technologist -

Full Presentation

CAD Standards Checker

Key transformer:

• FeatureMerger

CAD Standard

CAD Standards Checker

Key transformer:• StatisticsCalculator

Error Reports

Attribute Checker

Attribute Checker

Key transformer:

• Joiner

Attribute Checker

Topology Checker

12 rules:• node edge snap

• node end snap

• floating node

• duplicate node

• line end snap

• line edge snap

• crossed line

• line end node

• duplicate line

• floating service

• one line two nodes

• both line ends snap

Topology Checker

Key transformers:

• Joiner

• NeighbourFinder

Validation processes

• At CCMEO, FME is used for :

– Feature translation

– Feature creation

– Feature validation

Catalog

Catalog based validations

• Spatial relations validation

• Domain attribute validation

• Proximity validation

• Minimal dimension validation

• Segmentation validation

• Data clipping validation

Catalog Based Validations

- Example -

Spatial relations validation

– Based on Egenhofer-Clementini DE-9IM

masks

Catalog based validations

- Examples -• Spatial relations

• Attribute value

Catalog validation within FME

• Real program example:

Automation

Useful links & resources

• Safe blogThe Ultimate Geospatial Data Validation Checklist

• More great customer stories at safe.com/events

– FME User Conference

– FME World Tours

Questions?

Join us for our next webinar

February 25 | safe.com/webinars