Need some advice concerning AFCAD Files

[T Square]

I had some problems last week with some scenery that involved some AFCAD files. I'm pretty sure I had a AF2 file that conflicted with and AFX file. This leads me to a question? I assume that AF2, AFX, ADE, AFD and however many others there are out there are all basicly AFCAD files. If Iam correct in this assumption then how do you know if they duplicate each other? Is there a program that looks at all the formats inclusive and says you have "X" number of duplicates? If you identify "X" number of duplicates exsist how do you determine which one needs to go? Or am I over nothing and the problem was something else.

 

[falcon409]

You're right about those various programs, they're all AFCAD Files and a couple of them (AFX and ADE) have the ability to work cross platforms. Usually (I work only in FSX these days) when I redo an AFCAD for a particular airport scenery I load it as an AF2 and export it back out as AFX (the prefix for the program I use, "Airport Facilitator X"). It then replaces the original AFCAD with the new one and I never have a problem with duplicates. I've seen a few from time to time, but the consensus seems to be that it's better to leave those alone than attempt to delete them as a possible duplicate because they may be performing some function even though they're no longer visible.

 

[Desert Rat]

Tim,

AFX uses the AFX prefix when saving alterations to default FS files, if you load a 3rd party file with AFX it'll save it to the same name, ie the original prefix. I tend to rename them all with the same AF2 prefix, doesn't do any harm. helps to keep them easily organized.

Jamie

PS. Both AFcad and AFX will show a list for each airport ID, one is often notated as stock, others show also, the active one is black, rest grey. Active one is the one in the top scenery sequence*. Keep the one that is being used by the scenery you use, if you have two add-ons for an airport, bin the one you don't use along with it's afcad.