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SBuilderX exclusion question

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Everytime I make new coastlines for our part of the World I struggle to figure out to have the "right" exclusion area and new Water polygons.
Anyone knows a easier way to see, how much of the default Water I need to exclude.
My problem is when I exclude then I have "Island"s on the ocean, and Water on some land.
 
Do Views > QMID grid > level 11. The rule is you must exclude and rebuild an entire QMID 11 cell, if your area of interest happens to fall on a QMID 11 boundary then you may need to do 2 or even 4 QMID 11 cells. Best way to do it is make an exclusion poly for shorelines and another for hydro polys then select each one, right click and "Fill to QMID 11". Set the transparency to 10 or so then you can see to add your new hydro polys and shorelines. Hydro polys and shorelines clip at QMID 11 boundaries by design. A small exclude will exclude whatever it touches so it's possible to exclude a small hydro poly and rebuild it without rebuilding the entire QMID 11 cell. You can open your vector .bgl in TMFViewer and see how the polys are broken up. From that you may be able to figure out what you need in your SBuilder file to accomplish what you want to do. That's fine for your own use but since hydro polys clip at QMID 11 boundaries, by excluding and rebuilding in units of a QMID 11 cell, you know your scenery will work above whatever the end user has installed whether that be default FSX, FTX Vector, UTX, or whatever else is out there.
 
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