Donovan Patrick 1327883 Posted April 20, 2017 at 11:35 PM Posted April 20, 2017 at 11:35 PM Hello, I have AUTOCAD, but I'm stuck on what the steps are for creating an ASDE-X sector file for an airport. Anyone able to help me out? Thanks. Donovan Patrick Atlanta ARTCC FE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chriss Klosowski Posted September 3, 2017 at 07:35 AM Posted September 3, 2017 at 07:35 AM Following this can anyone help me as well? CHRISS KLOSOWSKIDivision Director, VATSIM Middle East & North Africa VATSIM Network Senior Supervisor, Team 5 [email protected] http://vatsim.me/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Roate 1388768 Posted October 30, 2017 at 03:11 PM Posted October 30, 2017 at 03:11 PM I have had no luck whatsoever using AutoCAD to draw regions. When I try to convert from a drawing to a sector file, none of the coordinates match up. It seems like the only way to go is using Google Earth Pro polygons for your regions, and even after saving as a KML file and converting with KML2SCT.exe, there is a LOT of hand-formatting of the regions area within the .sct2 file. I'm seriously thinking about making a YouTube video on drawing an airport in Google Earth, inserting regions, inserting static text, etc. The sector file we use in ZAU (now undergoing heavy updates and starting from scratch) has KORD always turned on, but the other airports can be turned on and off as a subsection in the [sTARS] side of our diagrams. The other airports never contained (past tense) solid-fill [REGION] data. In the new file, they do. I need Ross's help on how to have "sub-regions" in those smaller airports, so that the regions do not stay illuminated 100% of the time, even if the path/line data is turned off. At present, my best advice is stay away from AutoCAD for sector files - Unless of course you can point me in the direction of how to do it in a manner that will not make O'Hare end up in Africa with the incorrect coordinates AutoCAD kicks out. Adam Russell ZAU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gia Pham Posted November 2, 2017 at 01:25 AM Posted November 2, 2017 at 01:25 AM Have you look at VATUSA's FE forum recently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chriss Klosowski Posted November 28, 2017 at 12:40 PM Posted November 28, 2017 at 12:40 PM Any updates on this? The only thing I've found is this: Found some sort of example off for Seattle: https://zseartcc.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4632 However no instructions are provided. Then found this ancient thread off the VRC forums. http://www1.metacraft.com/VRC/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1613&highlight=autocad This ancient thread has very unclear instructions. http://nav.vatsim-germany.org/files/library/public/dxf_convert.zip Conversion tool for AutoCad however after converting It dosent show properly on EuroScope. So what I've done: Taken a PDF off SIA for LFPG Converted it to DXF Removed every sort of items that are not needed, text etc... Put colors and grouped them in AutoCad Once converted using the VATSIM Germany tools it shows up not in the correct GEO Location and looks 100x bigger then the actual Earth! So what I need to do is how to properly scale it to the actual location so it fits. I would like to make great looking ground layouts with alot of detail however the scaling part is the hardest to do. CHRISS KLOSOWSKIDivision Director, VATSIM Middle East & North Africa VATSIM Network Senior Supervisor, Team 5 [email protected] http://vatsim.me/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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