APECS ANIMATOR for SIMMOD

Version 1.1

Product Description

The APECS Animator is a new animation program which incorporates a wide variety of new features and techniques designed to:

But the best part of the APECS Animator is that it is free. Additionally, you may distribute the APECS Animator with your study data to clients.

Unique capabilities include:

  • Easy to use toolbars with just the buttons you need. Navigator toolbar allows super quick zooming capabilities.
  • Reload SIMMOD data without exiting the program.
  • Import and animate INM radar data from either INM binary or ASCII formatted files.
  • Multiple aerial and satellite photographs may be displayed simultaneously. Photographs may be designated to be displayed only at certain zoom levels, all automatically of course.
  • Aerial and satellite photograph alignment editor.
  • Accurately scaled runway markings on the map graphics window.
  • Scaled Runways Editor allows user input of runway width, threshold distances and runway markings.
  • Curved vehicle paths.
  • Advanced distance monitoring capabilities between aircraft.
  • Vehicles (multiple vehicles as well) may hold on airfield links rather than at nodes, thus greatly enhancing presentation quality.
  • Vehicle Icon Editing tool which allows you to design your own vehicles icons quickly and accurately.
  • A Trade Show Manager which gives the user the ability to script how the Animator should run in an automated fashion.
  • The ability to lock functionalities such as menu items so that casual users and clients are less likely to alter important program settings.
  • Read documentation using built-in help system.
  • Print to the new standard in vector graphics, the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format.
  • Review and edit SVG files using the built-in Batik viewer provided by the Apache Foundation.
  • Advanced AutoCad DXF file import functionality.
  • Logically designed program preferences which are applied or saved per the user's instructions.
  • The capability to automatically load a previously accessed SIMMOD application into memory on program start-up if desired.
  • Displays graphical data in any one of the following three map projections:
    • Unprojected latitude and longitude - Considers longitudes and latitudes to be XY coordinates.
    • INM Compatible Projection - Duplicates the INM methodology for displaying map graphics. Allows for highly accurate maps within 100 miles of the study center.
    • Miller Equidistant Projection - A varient of the well-known Mercator projection.

Multiple Aerial Photos

Smoothly Curved Taxipaths


Animated Queue Passing (AVI Video)


Aircraft hold on links.


Accurately Scaled Runway Markings