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How to alter AirportBounds geometry?
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No you cannot do that in FSX Planner (or AFX, or ADE) you will need to use SBuilderX, FSX KML or the SDK tools to exclude the default airport polygon and create a new one
Thanks Jon for the responds.
It worked using FSX KML 1.10(Beta)
Bart
In Google Earth
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- Draw a polygon (the transparency to 50% for easier drawing)
- Set the elevation in absolute height
- Save the KML file (not the default kmz file)
In FSX KML
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- Open the KML file
- Tag the polygon with the Airport_Backgrounds_Flatten_MaskClassMap_ExcludeAutoGen
- Build the bgl file
Note: changing the elevation in FSX KML 1.10 (beta) gave rounded numbers for lat/lon values; I think this is related to my country settings (,.)
It worked using FSX KML 1.10(Beta)
Bart
In Google Earth
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- Draw a polygon (the transparency to 50% for easier drawing)
- Set the elevation in absolute height
- Save the KML file (not the default kmz file)
In FSX KML
==========
- Open the KML file
- Tag the polygon with the Airport_Backgrounds_Flatten_MaskClassMap_ExcludeAutoGen
- Build the bgl file
Note: changing the elevation in FSX KML 1.10 (beta) gave rounded numbers for lat/lon values; I think this is related to my country settings (,.)
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Good to know that it works 
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Hello
This method allows only to create a new AB.
If you need to "alter" an existing airport (change place, elevation,...), first you must "clean" the existing place:
- create an Exclude_All_Airport_Boundaries polygon to get rid of the geometry of existing airport (flatten, ...); just needs this polygon touches the existing AB.
- create a dummy bgl to get rid of default FS airport data (get the xml file for the airport with SDE, edit =ask for details if interested=, compile with bglcomp, then install in FSX\Scenery\World\Scenery to be read first).
Then, you can work on clean new place created by AB..., ready to create a new "afcad" file with a tool such as ADE, FSXPlanner, AFX, ...), add scenery, ...
Pierrot - FMEP
This method allows only to create a new AB.
If you need to "alter" an existing airport (change place, elevation,...), first you must "clean" the existing place:
- create an Exclude_All_Airport_Boundaries polygon to get rid of the geometry of existing airport (flatten, ...); just needs this polygon touches the existing AB.
- create a dummy bgl to get rid of default FS airport data (get the xml file for the airport with SDE, edit =ask for details if interested=, compile with bglcomp, then install in FSX\Scenery\World\Scenery to be read first).
Then, you can work on clean new place created by AB..., ready to create a new "afcad" file with a tool such as ADE, FSXPlanner, AFX, ...), add scenery, ...
Pierrot - FMEP