hjwalter Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Hi Guys, I've been using the problem free Afcad2 program, together with my FS9, for as long as I can remember but suddenly I run up against a peculiar problem, which I have never seen before. I have opened a normal looking British Air Force Base via this Afcad2 program but when using the drop down menu and selecting "Tools" ---> "Fault Finder" the whole AFB is displayed in yellow as being an "Isolated section". This includes the runway, all taxiways, parking positions, etc, in fact, the whole AFB is "isolated", but from what ???? The contents of the "airport reference point" seem O.K. and there's nothing obvious staring me in my face. No other faults are given. The only thing I can say about this AFB is that it's a rather complex one with very many taxiways, aprons, car parks, small apron-like areas with buildings on them and many visible non-taxiway paths, connecting roads, etc., also outside the AFB's perimiter. Could the Afcad2 program somehow be overwhelmed by the complexity of this airport ? However, I find this a little difficult to believe because I have many more such complex airports, AFBs, etc. in my FS9. Any ideas, anyone. Hans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pschlute Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 If the afcad was created with a more modern tool such as ADE, then it is possible that AFCAD2 cannot read or understand all the details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StringBean Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Is this a default airport? If so, which one? If not, which one? peace, the Bean WWOD---What Would Opa Do? Farewell, my freind (sp) Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjwalter Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 It's the excelent freeware addon depiction of the Marham AFB made by the British ACG group. You should be able to download it via the following link: http://www.justflight.com/product/raf-marham-freeware-by-airfield-construction-group Looking forward to any reactions. Hans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StringBean Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 I downloaded, installed and checked the file in question with Afcad2.21. I could not get Afcad to replicate your problem with the Fault Finder. You might try a fresh download, though I doubt that will change much. FTR, an "isolated segment" (not section) is a taxi link that is not connected to the rest of the airport, basically it has no connection to any runway. This airport has a ton of them as they were used to create a bunch of roads. This is not uncommon. Had you made any changes before running the Fault Finder? Is it possible that you ran out of memory when you ran the Fault Finder? How much memory do you have? This might be difficult to troubleshoot in that you are using an unfinished, non-SDK compliant program (Afcad2.21) to work on a file created by another non-SDK compliant program (AFX). Or at least we are lead to believe the AFX was used by the file name. I also looked at the file with ADE9 which found a few different faults not found by Afcad2.21. ADE9 also found an exclusion rectangle that you will lose if you save the file in Afcad2.21 as it knows nothing about exclusions. So I would expect a bunch of default objects to show up if you do that. Lastly, did you by chance mistakenly download the FSX version? peace, the Bean WWOD---What Would Opa Do? Farewell, my freind (sp) Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjwalter Posted March 12, 2016 Author Share Posted March 12, 2016 Stringbean, I did a fresh download as you advised and PRESTO, problem solved. How ? I have no idea but I'm now trying to find out by comparing the two Afcad files. If something doesn't work I always want to know why but if something does work then I want to know why as well !! Peace to you too. Hans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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