FME Desktop Edition

Each FME Desktop Edition consists of separate components. The three primary components FME Workbench, Universal Translator and Universal Viewer include capabilities for the transformation and visualization of spatial data.
Several application programming interfaces (APIs) allow developers to integrate spatial data reading and writing support into other stand-alone applications or to add new formats or functionality to the FME translation core.
All applications listed here are included with every FME Edition.

FME Workbench

FME Workbench has an intuitive point-and-click graphic interface to enable translations to be graphically described as a flow of data. Single features or groups of features can be manipulated or enhanced by external data sources using so-called transformers. FME Workbench is the primary tool for data translations in FME.

Universal Viewer

The FME Universal Viewer allows quick viewing of data in any FME-supported format. It is used primarily for data validation and quality assurance by allowing you to preview data before translation, or review data after translation.

Universal Translator

FME Universal Translator was the first FME application to be developed. Users define translations using a scripting language rather than a graphic interface. For this reason, the Universal Translator is largely superseded by FME Workbench, although it still has value in certain operations such as quick translation and some advanced functionality that is not yet supported in Workbench.