PHOCUS PHODAT Reader/Writer

The PHOCUS PHODAT (PHOCUS) Reader module providesand Writer modules provide FME with the ability to translate PHOCUS data in and out of any FME format. PHOCUS PHODAT is a published ASCII format, output by the Carl-Zeiss PHOCUS system.

Overview

The PHOCUS files may contain both two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) features. The PHOCUS files do not explicitly store attribute values but rather use a feature coding approach whereby unique feature codes are assigned to different types of features stored within the dataset. The FME looks for an extension of .pdt for the input PHOCUS files, but will accept any PHOCUS file as input regardless of the file name or extension.

The PHOCUS reader module supportsand writer modules support the reading and writing of point, line, area, and text geometric data in PHOCUS files.

Each geometric entity present in a PHOCUS file is assigned an object code and an item code. Together these codes define the type of feature being read.

FME considers a PHOCUS dataset to be a single PHOCUS PHODAT file.