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MSFS20 Adding a custom object to an existing cockpit

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Hi, sorry if it's a noob question, but I'm wondering, does someone know how one would add a 3D object to an existing cockpit in MSFS - for example, an iPad/phone attached to something, or just floating there if selected, which can run some HTML "gauge" or a web page.
I know the HTML gauge part, but really not where to start if one would like to add this to the actual cockpit as a new, 3D element, instead of replacing the existing ones.
Any tutorials, your experiences?
Only things I can find are how to make the scenery, and then you can move/place that in-game, or development of the planes from scratch, couldn't find anything on a modification to the existing cockpits, or addition of 3D models.
 
You would need the model of the airplane. You could probably use ModelConverterX to get the model, and then Blender to add to it, but, you'd need the permission of the author of the model to distribute the new package, and, it would likely be a ton of work. That's the limit of my knowledge, but, there's plenty of tutorials out there. And the MSFS SDK has an example aircraft and tutorial. Start Developer mode in MSFS, go to help, and download and install the SDK and examples.
 
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