Factory

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A Factory is a low-level piece of functionality in FME that performs a specific operation on the objects being passed through it. Factories, together with Functions, are the building blocks of FME since Workbench transformers are high-level tools that process features by referencing one or more Factories and/or Functions.

An FME Factory can be used directly within a Mapping File, for example...

FACTORY_DEF * CreationFactory                                          \
   FACTORY_NAME 2DCREATOR                                              \
   2D_GEOMETRY 0 0 10 10                                               \
   CREATE_AT_END no                                                    \
   NUMBER_TO_CREATE 1                                                  \
   OUTPUT FEATURE_TYPE 2DCREATOR_CREATED                               \