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WorldEditor (WED)

WorldEditor (often abbreviated to WED) is an open source scenery and airport editor for X-Plane.  There are several versions of WED from which you can download. Additional information on how to use WED, including the manual, can be found on the Scenery Development Documentation page.

System Requirements: WED should run on Windows 7/10, macOS and Linux with GLIBC 2.38. Starting with WED 2.7.0 Intel Mac’s are no longer supported.

Latest Beta Version

WED 2.7.3 fixes some bugs and adds additional validations during the export.

Features:

  • Gateway validation warns about gates and tie-downs with operation type None, as X-Plane parks no static aircraft there
  • Gateway validation warns about static aircraft objects overlapping a rampstart, which will be removed during export

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed author-defined airline codes being erased on half of the wide-body (size D and larger) ramp starts when generating ATC flow / ramp data
  • Fixed Gateway export changing ramp starts with operation type None to Airline or General Aviation, so X-Plane parked aircraft there anyway
  • Runway ATC route segments are always size E, as in X-Plane: their “Size” can no longer be narrowed
  • Removed the minimum length check for ATC taxi and truck route segments (7 to 20 m by aircraft size, 5 m for trucks); only a segment shorter than 1 m is still an error
  • Fixed “Match Bezier Handles” not working when more than one Bezier point (e.g. two .lin edge effects) was snapped to the same node
  • Fixed facade wall widths in the Library Preview pane showing placeholder limits as “1e+03” instead of “any” or a readable range, and single-floor facades showing a part’s height (e.g. “h=0.2m”) instead of the roof’s
  • Fixed Split not working on a closed .lin (Line) placement
  • Fixed a crash when Split failed to clone a chain’s node
  • Fixed building with Xcode 27 (macOS 27 SDK); libcurl updated to 8.23.0

Latest Stable Version

WED 2.7.2 fixes two important bugs on macOS and Linux.

Older Versions

WED 2.6 supports all new X-Plane 12 features. More information on WED 2.6 can be found here.

Here are links to WED 2.5.1r1 More information on WED 2.5 can be found here.

Here are links to WED 2.41r2. This is a bug fix patch that fixes validation errors with ATC segments on runways and issues with the 3d preview window.  More information on the features of WED 2.4 can be found here.

Here are links to WED 2.3.1r1

Here are links to WED 2.2r2

Here are links to WED 2.1r1

Here are links to WED 1.7.2r1

Here are links to WED 1.6.1

Here are links to WED 1.5.1

Here are links to WED 1.4.1:

Here are the links to WED 1.3.2:

Here are links to WED 1.2:

Here are links to WED 1.1:

Here are links to the original WED 1.0: