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[imports] web based design tool - release - 7/7/2015 6:39:29 PM

blh42

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url: http://www.blh42tools.com

select unit type
click to create something
double click to remove unit
export and enjoy!

feedback appreciated!

blh

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 7/7/2015 6:47:26 PM

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Definitely worth checking out!

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 7/7/2015 8:25:28 PM

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That is really cool. I foresee a lot of new .inst files getting created because of this. Thanks!

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 7/7/2015 9:05:21 PM

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Wow! Well done!

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 7/7/2015 11:19:18 PM

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Ha! That's great!

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 7/8/2015 8:34:09 AM

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Great tool!

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 7/8/2015 9:27:55 AM

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Excellent - thank you!

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 7/8/2015 5:08:24 PM

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Absolutely amazing. Thank you so much!!!

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 7/8/2015 6:07:03 PM

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 7/11/2015 10:50:10 PM

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Just used it to make a pair of airports in Guyana. Great tool!

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 8/30/2015 9:12:12 AM

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Brilliant, wish I had read this about 4 weeks ago when i started mapping NATO / Warsaw pact Airfields and locations, would have saved me a pile of work in copying map tiles I didnt really need.

Can I suggest a couple things would be a nice to have feature?

And I dont have a tenth of your abilites so I have no idea if this is possible.

Could a search function be included in the unit list, like in CMANO, so I start to type RUN for runway and it will only show the Runways/ Runway Taxiways...... ect ect

Also an option to limit the drop down to either , Aircraft/Surface Ships/Submarine/ Facilty

If not its no worries, it a great tool though cuts down creating an airfield by a good 10 mins

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 8/30/2015 12:42:38 PM

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Seem to have spoke too soon, I have just tried to load up the inst file and when I do CMANO says completed , but no Icons appear on the map anywhere.

I am clearly missing a step, but cant figure out where. I added a SAM site as a test both in the browser and the I did it within the game and compared the two and they are significantly different, but I cant figure out why.

I have included both the inst files the game compiled one that works fine and the other browser generated one, anyone got any ideas?

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 3/20/2016 10:24:14 AM

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Does the drop down menu get updated for new databases?

EDIT: Ouch just saw this was an old post... no worries.

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 3/29/2016 10:53:23 PM

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I might be a little late just discovering this, but I can't seem to get the imports to show up in the game. CMANO says that it is completed loading the import but the icons don't appear in the game. CMANO also detects the facilities in the side box below the import description. The formatting quite is different than the game-generated ones so might this be the culprit?

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 3/29/2016 11:06:21 PM

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Works fine here.

Just a couple of thing about that dialog.

You can only do one load at a time. You've got to close and reopen to follow up with another.

If you have a multilevel folder hierarchy make sure to select the files themselves.

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 3/29/2016 11:59:27 PM

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ORIGINAL: mikmyk

Works fine here.

Just a couple of thing about that dialog.

You can only do one load at a time. You've got to close and reopen to follow up with another.

If you have a multilevel folder hierarchy make sure to select the files themselves.

Sadly, this has not seemed to have worked.

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 3/30/2016 12:07:21 AM

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If you add any unit outside of the import function can you see it?

Can you give me a click through of what you're trying to add.

Thanks!

Mike

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 3/30/2016 12:49:49 AM

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If I add any unit outside of the import function, I can see it.

A walkthrough of what I am doing is by first loading the blh42 import website, and then switching to satellite view in the upper left hand corner. Next, I browse through the facilities drop down menu and add the facilities in their respective locations (I tried doing Fort Ord, Hector ANGB, and RAF Upper Heyford; none of these worked). Following that, I enter the name of the facilities in the name box and select them as grouped. Finally, I export them and try to load them in CMANO, but so far I've had no luck, only to see the facility names in the box below the descriptions.

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 3/30/2016 1:59:30 AM

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Seems like you've got adding them to a scenario and actually creating them jumbled together.

This vid should help. If it doesn't let me know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogKL-96eFtM

Mike

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 3/30/2016 3:32:03 AM

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I'm obviously missing something here so can you clarify things by providing a walkthrough? I'm confused on how I get the import into Command or if I create the import in Command.

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 3/30/2016 6:57:31 PM

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 3/30/2016 7:24:30 PM

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ORIGINAL: B52H

I'm obviously missing something here so can you clarify things by providing a walkthrough? I'm confused on how I get the import into Command or if I create the import in Command.

That's what the video in the link above is. Did you watch it?

Mike

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 3/30/2016 11:46:32 PM

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I watched the video in the link when I first started playing Command. I was trying to ask about you posting a quick walkthrough on how to use the import tool to help those players who cannot use it properly.

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 3/31/2016 12:57:34 AM

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Ah ok sorry just figured out you were talking about blh's great tool not any software of ours.

You guys need to pm him as its his software not ours. Looks like there is an issue with the file generated.

Thanks!

Mike

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 3/31/2016 11:34:15 AM

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I have the same problem. Exporting a grouped unit from the web tool don't work.
In Command you can select the file and in the description window you can see listed all the units of the group, but when you click in load....Nothing happens.

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 3/31/2016 4:49:04 PM

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I have the same problem. Exporting a grouped unit from the web tool don't work.
In Command you can select the file and in the description window you can see listed all the units of the group, but when you click in load....Nothing happens.

Yup, the Lat/Lon coordinates are missing from the inst file.

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 4/1/2016 4:54:13 AM

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I have e-mailed blh42 (who made this tool), hopefully they're able to fix it.

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 5/12/2016 12:17:16 AM

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Anything on this yet?

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 5/12/2016 10:49:41 AM

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B52H

No unfortunately not at the moment I have tried to contact bhl by email and pm several times but no reply am afraid.

I can confirm that the issue is the lack of lat longs in the string, it's like the tool doesn't lift them from Google maps or Google maps doesn't provide them in a way the tool understands. Maybe it's a new version of maps that's buggering it up as initial comments seem to suggest it worked fine.

Is there anyone out there who understands how the tool works I wonder?

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RE: [imports] web based design tool - release - 8/8/2017 7:21:48 PM

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This is fantastic...
This is going on my favorites... and I NEVER put anything in my favorites...

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