User Manuals and Guides
- MACE (2025) ARMOR Quick Start Guide: Download the latest quick start guide to getting an account, downloading, and setting up MACE and ARMOR
- BSI Worldwide Map Server Quick Start Guide: Download the latest quick start guide for using the BSI Worldwide Map server provided on the GIS drive with your MACE purchase
How to find the Manuals
- The QUICK menu top left corner of the MACE UI has a HELP button that shows all the documentation available from within the BSI Documentation Browser
YouTube Tutorials Playlist
This playlist contains multiple videos both narrated and/or captioned that explain how to do specific things in BSI software from the very basic setup to more advanced functions. Some key videos are:
MACE 2025 Download, Install, License, Setup:
- Downloading and Installing MACE
- Licensing MACE – Activating a temporary or permanent MACE license
- Setting Up MACE Data Paths – Directing MACE to the data it uses for the elevation and mapping
MACE 2025 Basics:
- Starting MACE and ARMOR: Basic startup, load, and start mission in MACE and 3D display in ARMOR
- MACE Users Manual Tutorial 2: How to add platforms, basics of platform and waypoint properties, changing route speeds and altitudes, moving grouping and deleting, creating basic integrated air defence system (if you watch nothing else to get started, watch this!)
- Making ARMOR Terrain: how to use the GIS drive provided with a MACE purchase to generate 3D ARMOR terrain
- Road Vectors: Using the GIS drive provided with MACE Open Street Maps Road Vectors to attach vehicles to roads
MACE 2025 Intermediate:
- MACE Radio Propagation visualisation: visualise the propagation of radio and see the effect of known jammers
- Scripting Example Lesson – Landing Zones: narrated tutorial video in our ‘Use Case Scripting Series’. It focuses on using landing zones for helicopter operations
- Scripting an Aircraft Circuit: Narrated tutorial of a simple set of sequential scripts for takeoff, circuit, and land
- MACE Use Case Scripting Lesson: Landing Zones: Narrated scripting lesson, progressive from ‘this mission’ specific scripts to ‘any mission’ buttonized scripts – associated training document
- MACE Use Case Scripting Lesson – Evasion Maneuvers: Narrated scripting lesson, progressive from ‘this mission’ specific scripts to ‘any mission’ buttonized scripts – associated training document
- Small Unmanned Air Systems (sUAS) Plugin: narrated tutorial video describing how to do First Person SUAS training using the MACE plugin
- Merlin AI First Setup Steps: narrated tutorial of how to get started with Merlin AI
MACE 2025 Advanced:
- General Pattern for EW Emitter Configuration: Duplicating and editing a MACE emitter from within a live mission and using MACE/ARMOR visualisation tools to verify the parameters and capabilities.
- Radar Creation in MACE: Using the MOCT: to create new equipment, create a new emitter, assign the emitter to equipment, refine emitter, create a mode, test
- Creating Radars in MACE: Using the emitter editor
- Creating a SPY1 Radar
- Adding Platforms to MACE: using the mission object configuration tool to add platforms
BSI University Course Materials and Playlist
The BSI University course materials is a downloadable PDF of the slides used by our instructors when delivering the facilitated training course at customer locations. Within most of the lessons is a student exercise to consolidate the learning from the lesson. The instructor’s solution to each student’s exercise is available on the YouTube channel playlist. These are non-narrated, captioned videos that go through each step of the student exercises.
BSI-U Training Material Slide Pack Download – No Longer Available
- Install MACE to get access
- Training Slides are installed with MACE in the Missions Folder: Missions\BSI-University
- The folder contains the training missions used as examples on BSI formal training courses
- To book a training course contact sales@bssim.com
BSI-U Student Exercises Videos:
- MACE Basic Mission Building
- ARMOR Setup and Basic Controls
- MACE Simple Entity Control
- Building ARMOR Terrain
- MACE and ARMOR Manual Entity and Camera Control
- MACE Semi-Autonomous Platform Behaviors
- MACE & ARMOR Shapes
- MACE Intermediate Entity Control 1
- MACE Intermediate Entity Control 2 (Pattern of Life)
- Basic Integrated Air Defence Systems and Autonomous Air Defence
- MACE and ARMOR EW Visualization and Jamming
- MACE Electronic Warfare Combat Displays
- MACE & ARMOR EW Analysis Tools 1
- MACE & ARMOR EW Analysis Tools 2
- MACE Intermediate Mission Editing Scripting
- Form Controlled Attacks 1 – Simple CAS
- Form Controlled Attacks 2 – Advanced CAS
- Form Controlled Attacks 3 – 5Lines
- Form Controlled Attacks 4 – Call for Fire
- For Controlled Attacks 5 – Fire Plan
- MACE Missions, Map Controls, Layers