[No geo location for your building in Sketchup?]

No geo location for your building in Sketchup?

Go to Google Earth Pro, take measures of your buildings.

Take a bird view picture of your building.

Crop your picture in a photo app.

Copy your pictures to your buiding’s .png.

Go to Sketchup, draw the base of your building using your measures.

Put your bird view picture on top of it using the paint tool, adjust until it fits.

[Finding building dimensions of a airport]

Import orthophoto in your airport and use NAPS' metric tool. It's an object, use it to calculate 2D dimensions in meters.

NAPS_METRICS.zip

[NAPS lib]

FYI the latest NAPS lib is exclusively available on TRESHOLD. 

 

[SAM Tentative comprehensive tutorial]

At fur0r3 request.

SAM – Scenery Animation Manager by Stairport

By Freddy De Pues, NAPS

A. SAM Installation in XP11

1) Install the library in Custom Scenery
2) Install the plugin in Resources --> plugins

B. Objects Installation in WED

1) Place your ramp start in the exact position where it is needed. (It will help later on when you will position the safegates in XP11)

2) Install the jetway(s), the safegate(s) and the marshaller(s).
(Since there are no specific instructions, I selected 4 m high midsize jetways)

3) Name your gates, A1, A2, ... B1, B2,...

Notes:

The jetways should be attached to the terminal.
At this point, exact placement is not available, the position will be adjusted later on while in XP11.
Make sure the marshaller is far away enough from the plane or you won’t be able to see him or her.

4) Export the scenery, save.

C. Creating the .xml file using the authoring tool.

In other words, implementing SAM to your airport.
The .xml file containing all your input will be processed automatically, follow these steps:

1) Go to XP11, select the airport you are developing, go to the first gate.
The aircraft is in a perfect position on the ramp. The jetway is in its initial position, exactly where you placed it in WED, in the same shape as in the SAM library.

2) Open the Authoring Tool in Plugins.

3) In Sceneries, fill in the blanks (2 sections) and hit Add SAM.

4) Under Jetways, select Add a jetway instance.

5) Identify the selected jetway using the Display Range tool, by Click and hold to identify jetway or go to Arrangement (further down) and select extend. Add a label, Save Jetway.

6) Load the correct jetway template in the Description tab (Load from template). Add a sound to the jetway’s movements under Description.

7) Place the jetway to it’s initial position under Add jetway --> Arrangement.

8. Save jetway.

9) Add a visual docking guidance (plugin’s main menu) using the same method. 

10) If the aircraft is correctly positioned, click Copy current aircraft position --> Save.

11) Check jetway and safegate in Edit or get towed, quit and then reenter the gate again.

Also @ https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/48951-sam-autogate-simplified-tutorial/

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