Menu Item Reference

To see what the various menu items do, you can hover the mouse over each item to see a pop-up tooltip description. Some of the menu commands are standard operating system types and these are grayed out and have no pop-up tooltip.

Menu Reference

File Menu

Menu item	Description

Edit Menu

Menu item	Description
Cut, Copy, Paste Text	Only available for text editing.
Clear	Deletes the selection
Duplicate	Duplicates the selection. Note that this works for hierarchy items, so you can duplicate whole groups of items in the hierarchy pane. Includes sub options to duplicate in place or to duplicate & move to the current airport.
Group, Ungroup	These group the selection in the hierarchy pane, or break apart any group that is selected.
Split	Introduces split points into any side of a polygon or line whose end-points are selected.
Align	Align nodes into a straight line.
Match Bezier handles	Automatically match a line or polygon to the shape of another one.
Othogonalize	Straightens all sides of a polygon to make exact rectangles, etc.
Make Regular Poly	Makes polygons into rotationally or axially symmetrical shapes.
Merge	Merges two selected ATC network nodes into a single node, connecting the incoming routes of both.
Reverse	Reverses the winding direction of a polygon. Note that if a polygon is right-side out and is reversed, it will be inside-out and stop rendering.
Rotate	Rotates the order of sides on a polygon, which can change the position of facade sides and markings.
Crop Unselected	Deletes every unselected element from the WED project. Parents and children of the selected elements in the hierarchy are kept.
Convert to	Convert taxiways, draped polygons, airport line markings or lines into another type of entity of this list.
Move First, Move Up, Move Down, Move Last	Change the ordering of the selected object in the hierarchy pane (e.g., selecting move first will cause the selected element to be highest in whatever group it is in).
Break Apart APG’s	Break apart .agp groups into individual objects, if all .obj referenced are public.

View Menu

Menu item	Description
Zoom World	Zooms out to see the entire world.
Zoom Package	Zooms to show only the contents of the currently open package.
Zoom Selection	Zooms in to see the selected items filling the map pane.
Show Line Markings	Shows a simple color preview of taxiway and line markings for `apt.dat` files.
Show Vertices	Shows each vertex as a small dot.
Pavement Transparency	Selects a level of transparency for all apt.dat pavement.
Object Density	Shows a preview of the objects that a user would see at a given object density (set in the Rendering Options window in X-Plane).
Pick Overlay Image	Creates a new overlay image from disk for reference purposes only.
Toggle World Map	Turns the low-resolution background world map on or off. When checked, the background map is enabled.
Toggle Navaids	Toggles background layer with airport icons and NAVAID locations.
Slippy Map	Toggles OpenStreetMap or ESRI map information.
Toggle Preview	Toggles semi-realistic preview of objects, AGPs, facades and most other art assets. When checked, these previews are enabled.
3D Preview Window	Toggle the Window, Show Map Area in Preview Window, or Center Map on Preview Camera
Restore Frames	Resets the frames of the WED editing window to their default position.
Enter Full Screen	Toggle full screen mode on/off

Select Menu

Menu item	Description
Select All, Select None	Select every object in the package or none of them.
Select Parent/Select Children	Select the parent or children of the current selection in the hierarchy.
Select Polygon	Given a selected vertex, selects the polygon that contains it.
Select Vertices	Given a selected polygon, selects its vertices.
Select Connected	Selects disjointed parts of an ATC network.
Select Degenerate Edges	Selects ATC edges of zero length (i.e., edges between two points that are on top of one another). These are good edges to delete or the pack will not pass validation.
Select Double Nodes	Selects any ATC nodes that overlap each other. These are good nodes to merge or the pack may not pass validation.
Select Crossing Edges	Selects ATC edges that cross each other. These edges should be split or the pack may not pass validation.
Select Local Objects/Library Objects/Laminar Library Objects/Third Party Library Objects/Missing Objects	Selects objects meeting the criteria

Airport Menu

Menu item	Description
Create Airport	Creates a new airport within the package.
Create ATC frequency	Creates a new ATC frequency for the current airport.
Create Airport Flow	Creates a new, empty airport flow for the current airport.
Create Runway Use	Adds a runway use rule to the selected flow.
Create Runway Time Rule	Adds a new time rule limitation to the current flow.
Create Runway Wind Rule	Adds a new wind rule limitation to the current flow.
Add Metadata	Add metadata fields such as City, Country, etc.
Update Metadata	Downloads new, missing metadata (if available) for the airport.
Edit Airport [airport]	Changes the current airport to the selected one.
Upgrade Ramps	Auto-update pre X‑Plane 10.50 style ramp starts with useful defaults.
Upgrade Jetways	Auto-update pre X‑Plane 12 facades or jetways to moving jetways.
Age Pavement	Change pre-X-Plane 12 pavement textures to old & worn.
Add Pavement Edges	Add cracks & worn look to pavement edges.
Mow Grass	Creates lawn mowing tracks around objects.
Align Airports	Mass-move airports to bring runways into CIFP compliance.
Replace Vehicle Objects	Replace static ground service .objs with X‑Plane 11/12 ground service functions.