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Let's suppose your airport in project has the ICAO code : ''ABCD''.
Let's suppose your airport in project has the ICAO code : ''ABCD''.


1- Create a folder anywhere named with any name, and copy the genapts executable into it, from the TerraGear suite.
# Create a folder anywhere named with any name, and copy the genapts executable into it, from the TerraGear suite.
 
# In TaxiDraw, open your project and do the command : '''Export Airport'''. Save the export ''ABCD.dat'' file into your folder.  
2- In TaxiDraw, open your project and do the command : '''Export Airport'''. Save the export ''ABCD.dat'' file into your folder.  
# Open a command line window and go to your folder in it.
 
# Do the command exactly as here, including the dot at the end (but put the real ICAO code of your airport of course, instead of "''ABCD''" at the input parameter) :
3- Open a command line window and go to your folder in it.
 
4- Do the command exactly as here, including the dot at the end (but put the real ICAO code of your airport of course, instead of "''ABCD''" at the input parameter) :
 
   genapts --input=ABCD.dat --work=.
   genapts --input=ABCD.dat --work=.
 
: That command will make a series of data lines pass through the screen. Your new airport has just been generated. We must now manage to put the current scenery out of our way, and place the new airport temporarily at the right place, so we can take a look at it.
5- That command will make a series of data lines pass through the screen. Your new airport has just been generated. We must now manage to put the current scenery out of our way, and place the new airport temporarily at the right place, so we can take a look at it.
 


== Putting Aside the Current Scenery ==
== Putting Aside the Current Scenery ==
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