Smallworld Data Check-Out to Microstation

Ray Chien from Fujitsu Consulting, has created a Smallworld plugin capable to "check-out" Smallworld data into Microstation format, where it may be edited and "checked-in" back to Smallworld using FME 2014 desktop transformers. Written for the 4.0 Smallworld Translator, it does not support fme_db_operation and 'true' updates, but can accurately detect changed features and only replace those as needed. While Microstation does not support feature attributes, data integrity is preserved by combining with Microsoft Access Linkage support. In addition, the plugin is written with full Dynamic reader and writer support, making it scalable and adaptive to data model changes.